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on October 1981Mariners who want to prepare for the significant changes resulting from the unification of inland waterway, western rivers, and Great Lakes "Rules of the Road" will be interested in a new publication from Houston Marine Consultants, Inc. The "Unified Rules Study Guide and Ready Reference,"
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on October 1981A venerable 50-year-old woodhulled tug (shown above) has been restored to her fitness of yore and is back in service in Lake Union, Seattle, Wash. According to Mark Freeman of the Fremont Tugboat Company, Inc., the 42-foot-long "A-l" was renamed "Sovereign," following repairs and refitting
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on October 1981The first of two outsized fuel tank barges (shown above) slid down the Jeffboat, Inc. launchways at Jeffersonville, Ind., recently. There, it is receiving final outfitting before traveling to the East Coast to join the fleet of Boston Fuel Transportation, Inc. The tank barge is one of two i
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on October 1981icestrengthened semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling unit has been developed by MACS of Aberdeen, Scotland. The unit has received warm interest, according to John McLean, head of MACS's design department. Mr. McLean reported recently that four major oil companies and two drilling contr
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on October 1981Hydranautics Hydraulic Systems, Goleta, Calif., completed shipment recently of the skidding systems contracted by Western Oceanic, Inc., Houston, Texas, for use on Apollo III and IV. The Friede & Goldman designed L780 cantilever, self-elevating offshore drilling units are being built by Chi
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on October 1981Burrard Yarrows Corporation, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, recently received a $29-million contract to build an icebreaking Class 3 offshore supply vessel for Dome Petroleum Limited of Calgary. The vessel, to be built at Burrard Yarrows' Vancouver yard, is scheduled to operate in the Beaufort Se
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on October 1981Hydranautics Hydraulic Systems, Goleta, Calif., recently announced receipt of a contract from National Supply Company, Houston, Texas, to provide a cantilever and drill floor skidding system for use on a Perforadora Mexico S.A. Class 1 11-C selfelevating drilling unit. The jackup is being b
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on October 1981Houlder Drilling Co. has placed a $37-million order for the construction of a self-elevating offshore drilling unit with UIE Shipyard, Clydebank, Scotland. The rig will be used in the development of the Morecambe Bay gas field off the Lancashire coast, England. The yard is currently buildin
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on October 1981P.T. Indospec, in association with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), was formally recognized recently as a certification agency by the Indonesian Ministry of Oil and Natural Gas (MIGAS) to insure that offshore installations and equipment comply with Indonesian regulations which it admi
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on October 1981The first U.S. deepwater oil port appears to be handling ULCCs and VLCCs without problems. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), located 19 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, has received seven large bulk carriers up to 417,000 dwt in its first quarter of operation. Officials report the facil
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on October 1981The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has forwarded to its field surveyors worldwide survey instructions relating to the enforcement provisions of the 1978 Protocol to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). Copies of these instructions also have been given
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on October 1981A self-elevating offshore drilling unit for Offshore Investments Limited of the Hunt Group in the U.S. has been completed at the Osaka Works (Sakai) of Hitachi Zosen. After delivery, the cantilever-type rig named Prober was towed recently to Indonesia. The rig will be operated by Penrod Drilli
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on October 1981Todd Shipyards Corp., San Francisco, Calif., said it plans to move one of the drydocks from its San Francisco yard to its Seattle facility in February or March. The company will transfer a floating drydock that has a lift of 40,000 tons, leaving San Francisco with a drydock that can handle 9,
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on October 1981The petroleum product carrier M/V Philadelphia Sun (shown above) has left Sun Ship Inc., Chester, Pa., and joined its sister ship, the New York Sun, in the Sun Transport U.S.-flag tanker fleet, a considerable portion of which is assigned to transporting petroleum products to the Delaware Valle
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on October 1981Pacific Coal Corp. and the Port of Portland have agreed to develop a $60-million coal export terminal, the port announced recently. The terminal, to be built by Pacific Coal on port property, will handle 10 million tons of coal annually. It is expected to be operating in January 1984. The f
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on October 1981MacLean C. Shakshober has been named vice president of design and engineering at Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Co. (UPSCO), Ontonagan, Mich. UPSCO, a new construction and repair shipyard, utilizes the most advanced design and steel fabrication technology in the construction of tugs, barges,
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on October 1981A $55.6-million maritime research center is under construction at St. John's, Newfoundland. Named the Arctic Vessel and Marine Research Institute, the center has the potential to make research contributions to the offshore industry. Studies concerned with oil production, vessel performance,
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on October 1981A full-color, 135-page catalog package including seven sections is available from Limitorque describing the company's complete line of marine valve actuators and controls. The catalog is divided into separate sections covering valve actuators, valve c o n t r o l s , highspeed and high temp
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on October 1981Gary C. Wendt has been named vice president and general manager for General Electric Credit Corporation's (GECC) commercial and industrial financing division. Mr. Wendt will be headquartered at Stamford, Conn. Mr. Wendt's new responsibilities include management of GECC's commercial and indu
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on October 1981A steady upward climb in the world orderbook for the 27-month period from January 1979 to April 1981 has been reported by the newsletter Bremen International, published by the Senate of the West German city. As of April this year, for vessels 2,000 dwt and over, there were 1,707 vessels on