Short 1982Peter Articles
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on May 15, 1981The 900-ton, heavy-duty floating derrick Tog Mor (shown above) was delivered recently by Blohm + Voss AG, Hamburg. Built for Howard Doris Ltd. of Edinburgh, the derrick's hull is 101.4 meters long and 27.4 meters wide (about 332.7 by 89.9 feet). It has been towed to Loch Kishorn yard in Scotl
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on May 15, 1981Geosource Inc., Houston, Texas, recently announced its board of directors has elected William R. Laws to the position of executive vice president. He will have corporate operating responsibility for the company's operations which serve the petroleum exploration, petroleum development and el
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on May 15, 1981Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS), Singapore, recently announced it has signed a contract to construct a drillship for Global Marine Drilling Company of USA. The vessel will be built in Singapore and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 1983. The vessel will be a twi
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on May 15, 1981Bulletin A4-61.00, just released by WABCO Fluid Power Division of American-Standard, Lexington, Ky., describes the full line of Controlair® pneumatic valves for marine a p p l i c a t i o n s . The valves are widely used for pneumatic engine and clutch control as well as to control bow thrus
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on May 15, 1981Capt. Donald F. Stephens, general manager of McAllister Brothers, Inc., Philadelphia, has announced the a p p o i n t m e n t of Christopher T. Palo as marine superintendent. He will be responsible for all engineering and vessel maintenance and repair for the entire Philadelphia fleet and t
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on May 15, 1981Frank L. Anastasio Jr. has been elected president of Marine Concrete Structures, Inc. The New O r l e a n s - b a s e d company is the largest builder in the United States of precast, prestressed concrete gravity structures used in the offshore oil and gas industry. It operates construction
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on May 15, 1981The first shipping line totallyowned by Saudi Arabia became a reality recently following formal acceptance of the first cargo vessel by the newly established Saudi National Shipping Company. The 23,000-gt Saudi Riyadh, a RO/ RO-containership, is the first of seven similar vessels S.N.S.C. ex
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on May 15, 1981David A. Hatcher has been appointed president of Challenger Minerals Inc., the oil and gas exploration and development subsidiary of Global Marine Inc., it was announced recently by C. Russell Luigs, president and chief executive officer of Global Marine. Mr. Hatcher previously was a vice p
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on May 15, 1981Drilling Investments Ltd., a subsidiary of Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine has recently purchased a jackup drilling rig from leading rigbuilder, Promet Pte Ltd. The US$50-million rig, measuring 212 feet by 210 feet by 26 feet, is one of the largest threelegged jackup platform rigs. It will
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on May 15, 1981Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently launched another of its offshore supply vessels. Sponsor of the NMS 209 (shown above) was Mrs. Hugh Jackson, wife of the president of Jackson Marine Corporation, owner of the vessel. This $3.5-million vessel is the ninth among the 12 contracted P
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on May 15, 1981Sun Ship, Inc. of Chester, Pa., began a new era of ship repair and conversion business with a recent "reverse launch," as a 700- foot ship was inched carefully out of the water onto dry land. The procedure took about six hours as hydraulic devices moved Matson's RO/ RO ship Lurline (shown abov
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on May 15, 1981Matson Navigation Company has ordered 11 Econics fuel optimization systems to equip all of the boilers on the major ships of the fleet. This order followed a six-month evaluation of a system that was installed on one of the two 110,000 pound hour B&W boilers of Matson's Manulani, a 27,165-dwt,
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on May 15, 1981The 17,780-dwt products carrier Pertamina 1023 (shown above), constructed at the Maizuru Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered recently to Scorpa Pranedya Shipping, Inc., Panama. She is the fifth products carrier of the same type to be delivered by Hitachi for the transportation of refined pe-
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on May 15, 1981Small- to medium-sized merchant ships fitted with sails to augment their propulsion plants can achieve substantial fuel savings, and attain a competitive advantage on certain trade routes. This was a key finding of a 12- month study released recently by the Maritime Administration. The stud
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on May 15, 1981Megasystems, Inc., manufacturers and designers of marine instrumentation and control systems, has been selected to provide the ABS ACCU monitoring and generator controls for eight oceangoing tractor tugs to be built by Omni F a b r i c a t o r s of Port Brownsville, Texas. The tugboats will
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on May 15, 1981Two new officers of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation, were announced by Lykes chairman Joseph T. Lykes. Merritt E. Racker has been named assistant vice president, operating division, and Elizabeth Wetzel Vincent has been named assistant vice president, ma
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on May 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle applications from subsidiaries of Beker I n d u s t r i e s Corporation, Greenwich, Conn., for Title XI guarantees to aid in financing the construction of two dredges and the reconstruction of three sulfur barges. The builder of the dredg
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on May 15, 1981Acadiana Shipbuilding Corporation's president Glenn Guidry has announced the recent expansion of the New Iberia, La.-based shipyard. The company, with the addition of a fourth construction pad, crane, and associated welding equipment, can now deliver their standard 120-foot by 30-foot by 7-
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on May 15, 1981Rear Adm. Anthony F. Fugaro has been appointed senior vice president of The Great Lakes Towing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, it was announced by Charles R. Khoury, chairman and chief executive officer of The Great Lakes Towing Company. Admiral Fugaro will also serve as president of Admiral To
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on May 15, 1981An eight-page color brochure and various technical data sheets on ZF marine gears are now a v a i l a b l e f r o m Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG of West Germany. Superior quality, high efficiency, low weight as well as small dimensions and high reliability of ZF marine gears are due to m