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on October 1986Marathon LeTourneau Company of Houston, Texas, has been awarded a contract by Placid Oil Company of Dallas, Texas, to convert the Penrod 72, a semisubmersible offshore drilling rig, to a floating production unit. The conversion will be done at Marathon's Brownsville, Texas yard. The work in
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on October 1986According to Bob Steeber, Columbian Bronze Corporation's director of sales, the propellers now manufactured of CF-3 stainless steel alloy have the strength required to allow "fine-tuning" for maximum performance. The CF-3 does not yield under load or flex out of pitch, and is tough enough to
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on October 1986Sohio Petroleum Company is constructing several modules in New Iberia, La., that will be transported on barges to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to process oil, gas and water received from the Endicott Reservoir. They will be assembled to form an electrical generation system complex— emergency power pla
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on October 1986Falmouth Shiprepair, Ltd., a joint venture of Bellway pic. and A&P Appledore Group pic., is offering a free color brochure on its yard services and facilities located at Falmouth, England. According to the brochure, Falmouth shipyard has a tradition of first class service to shipowners that
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on October 1986Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard recently received two Navy contracts totaling $5.1 million for the drydocking and routine repair of a destroyer tender and a landing ship dock. David Watson, yard general manager, confirmed Bethlehem's receipt of a $3.4-million con
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on October 1986SPT Ltd., with full sales and services facilities in Houston, Texas, is offering a free full-color, 14-page brochure on their line of sound powered telephones and accessories for offshore, marine and land-based use. The color publication provides a complete technical description of SPT soun
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on October 1986Thor Bakke has been appointed president of Hempel Coatings (USA), Inc., as part of Hempel's ongoing program to consolidate and strengthen their U.S. and Canadian operations. Mr. Bakke is a native of Norway, receiving his degree in mechanical engineering from Gothenburg Technical Institute a
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on October 1986The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a $96.6-million contract to Peterson Builders, Inc. of Sturgeon Bay, Wise., for construction of two more mine countermeasures ships, the MCM-6 and MCM-8. The Wisconsin yard already had three MCMs on its orderbook under contracts totaling $180.2 mill
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on October 1986Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La., has been awarded a $12,178,268 fixed price FMS contract for the supply of patrol boats and associated support hardware and services to the government of Cameroon. Work, which will be performed in Morgan City, will consist of the construction of thirty, 3
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on October 1986The Claremont Company, Inc., Meriden, Conn., is offering a free catalog on their line of thermal and acoustical insulation materials for industrial use. The eight-page color publication contains over 40 photographs of Claremont products, from high temperature insulation pad components to ac
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on October 1986"Integrated Marine Control Systems" is the title of a new full-color, 12-page brochure from Bailey Controls of Wickliffe, Ohio, which presents control and instrumentation products, systems and support capabilities available to the maritime and offshore industries. The publication features the
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on October 1986Squire-Cogswell Co., air and vacuum specialists since 1916, has announced exclusive distributorship in the U.S. and Canada of liquid ring vacuum pumps manufactured by Robuschi of Parma, Italy. Designed for industrial applications, the Robuschi line includes conventional base-mounted units as w
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on October 1986Kamatics Corporation, home officed in Bloomfield, Conn., is offering a free, full-color, 22-page catalog on their line of KAron® Bearings, including spherical, rod end and journal configurations. The KAron bearing system is generated by swaging a metallic sleeve around a spherical ball creat
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on October 1986London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd. foresees a 40-percent increase in the refined oil products trade, from 250 million metric tons in 1985 to 350 million metric tons by 1990. This would raise demand for products tankers by 7 million dwt, the report states. The principal growth in t
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on October 1986—Literature Available Raytheon Marine Company's marketing manager, Carsten Peters, has announced that Raytheon has signed a comprehensive distribution agreement with Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corporation (YEW) of Japan. YEW is one of the world's leading manufacturers of gyrocompasses, ele
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on October 1986Ulstein in Norway recently unveiled a new high-lift rudder that combines the best features of various known rudder types and provides higher lift at large rudder angles compared with conventional flap type rudders. The new rudder is said to provide an exceptionally good effect for vessels th
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on October 1986Avondale Shipyards Division of New Orleans, under subcontract from Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, will perform the major work that is required in the drydocking of the battleship Wisconsin (BB 64), including the pumping out, gas freezing, repairing, and all of the coating of the ship's fuel
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on September 1986On September 26, 1986, the Financial Times will publish a fourpage survey on International Ports. The survey will look at the rapid pace of innovation the ports have had to maintain to meet growing demands, and will consider recent major investment in fast and efficient ways of handling carg
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on September 1986Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. of Stamford, Conn., has announced its intention to divest itself of Interlake Steamship Company and Moore McCormack Bulk Transport. The Interlake fleet consists of 10 Great Lakes bulk carriers, mostly self-unloaders; Bulk Transport owns three 39,000-dwt tanker
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on September 1986Imperial, leading manufacturer of survival suits and equipment, has moved its manufacturing and administrative offices from Bremerton, Wash., to the South Amboy, N.J., headquarters of its parent company, Parkway Fabricators, Inc. Parkway, a Great American Industries Company, purchased Imperi