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on September 1980Dreco, Inc., a Houston-based oilfield equipment and s e r v i ce company, has announced the formation of Dreco Technologies Incorporated (DRETECH), a wholly owned Dreco company. W.I). Frame, general manager of U.S. Operations for Dreco, made the announcement. It was also announced that J. B
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on September 1980Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, recently completed a twovessel contract for Command Marine, Inc. of Lafayette, La., with the delivery of the supply boat Moorean Command. Now working out of Cameron, La., for Getty Oil Company, the 180-foot by 40-foot vessel carries 6,000 cubic feet of dry
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on September 1980Omnithruster Inc. has expanded into new facilities to accommodate the growth of its maneuvering and slow-speed positioning systems. Incorporated in the new location will be the administration, marketing, and engineering offices including designing and manufacturing of thrusters, control equ
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on September 1980Richard F. O'Boyle, president, announces that the firm of Richard F. O'Boyle, Inc. has been appointed U.S. sales representative for CNOMV (Cantieri Navali e Officine Meccaniche di Venezia, S.P.A.) of Venice, a member of the Fincantieri group of Italian s h i p y a r d s . Antonio Marceglia,
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on September 1980Furuno has announced the availability of two new high-performance sonars for commercial and sport fishermen. Both units offer an exceptionally wide range of standard features, such as automatic target tracking, 1-kw output power, choice of 60 or 150- kHz operating frequency, a compact and r
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on September 1980The J . J . Henry Company, Inc. of Moorestown, N.J., and Seadrec Ltd. of P a i s l e y , Scotland, announce the formation of a joint v e n t u r e company to provide dredge designs, detail construction drawings, associated engineering services, and dredge equipment to clients throughout the
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on September 1980A new submerged arc chromemoly welding wire, called W-22, is available from the Western Steel Division of Armco. Produced by Armco to the American Welding Society Specification A5.23, Classification EB3, W-22 is a low-carbon, alloy steel wire containing 2.75 percent chromium and 1.00 percen
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on September 1980Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. has received contracts totaling $23,725,000 from the U.S. Navy, providing ship's service auxiliary power for three classes of vessels. Stewart & Stevenson will supply Detroit Diesel Allison, gasturbine- powered, 2,500-kw generator sets for the Navy's new
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on September 1980John W. Gilbert Associates, Inc. of Boston has received a contract from Sun Transport, Inc. of Claymont, Del., to design an advanced tug/barge unit for carriage of specialty petroleum products between U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports. The 4,600-bhp tug and 95,000-barrel barge will incorporate sa
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on September 1980Bay Shipbuilding Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., entered saltwater shipbuilding when the 396-foot tank barge Marie Tilton, built for Turecamo Coastal & Harbor Towing Corporation, was christened and launched in a recent dual ceremony. The Marie Tilton is named in memory of Mrs. Marie Tilt
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on September 1980Insulation failure is by far the most frequent cause of costly burnouts in marine electrical machinery. While a motor or generator is idle, its coil is under continuous attack by shipboard atmosphere and contaminants. Insulation resistance eventually drops below safe levels. If the conditio
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on September 1980The first inshore towing/supply vessels certified by the U.S. Coast Guard to serve the oil and gas industry are now in service for Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Tidewater Inc. The vessels, Beefmaster and Brahma, which represent a contract cost of approximately $1 million,
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on September 1980Crowley Maritime Corporation recently accepted delivery of the s a l v a g e vessel Arctic Salvor, which provides more line pull than any other salvage vessel in the world, according to Roy D. Jurgensen, Seattle, senior vice president and general manager of Crowley's Northwest and Alaska Di
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on August 15, 1980P.T. Trikora Lloyd, an Indonesian- flag line, marked the purchase of three vessels at a total cost of $45 million in a recent "changing of the flag" ceremony held at Pier 5, Port Authority in Brooklyn, N.Y. With these vessels, P.T. Trikora Lloyd will own five ships on the United States/Sout
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on August 15, 1980Nils Lucander, Lucander Designs of San Perlita, Texas, has announced the formation of a design a s s o c i a t i o n with Dave J. Dowhos of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This association, says Mr. Lucander, came about because of a mutual need. The Texas firm is overloaded with design work o
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on August 15, 1980Griff C. Lee, vice president of r e s e a r c h and development and technical services, J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his pioneering role in the development of the offshore p l a t f o rm technology now used around the world. The a
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on August 15, 1980The City of San Francisco is preparing to advertise for tenders to build a new fireboat, which has been designed by Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., according to an announcement made by Hugh F. Munroe, president and chief executive officer of the prominent San Francisco-based firm of naval
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on August 15, 1980Marland Environmental Systems, Inc., Walworth, Wise., a leading manufacturer of sewage treatment systems for large commercial vessels, has introduced a flow-through Type II Marine Sanitation Device (MSD) for workboats of small to medium crew size. The new device, named Sani- System® 40, is
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on August 15, 1980A & P Appledore Limited and Det norske Veritas have signed a joint contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Limited, part of one of Korea's largest industrial trading groups, to provide operational and completion assistance for their major and unique shipbuilding complex, situat
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on August 15, 1980The Gulf Coast's first onshore deep-draft oil terminal moved a step closer to reality recently with the issuance of a dredging permit by the Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The permit allows the Port of Galveston and Pelican Terminal Corporation (PELCO) to proceed with constr