Short 1982Peter Articles
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on October 1980Hydranautics, Inc. has been chosen by McDermott Engineering Ltd. of London to provide two complete hydraulic rig systems for use on Amoco's Northwest Hutton Field p l a t f o rm in the North Sea (U.K.). The contract calls for eight 200-ton, push/pull piston gripper jacks, four 80-ton lift s
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on October 1980John J. McMullen Associates, Inc. (JJMA), naval architects, marine engineers and transportation consultants of New York, recently installed an AUTO-TROL AD/380 Interactive Graphics System in its detail design office located in Newport News, Va. This office, known as JJMA's Hampton Roads Ope
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on October 1980Huthnance Drilling Company/ Vanguard I and Charger II, Ltd. of Houston has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI mortgage guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two jackup drilling barges. The 180-foot by 180-foot, 10,- 848-dwt barge being built for Vanguard I by
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on October 1980Hiroshi Ito has been named president, Kubota America Corporation, New York, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kubota, Ltd. of Japan, succeeding Tsutomu Hashimoto, who returns to Tokyo as export manager, machinery. Mr. Ito, with the parent company for 34 years, most of these in export-related are
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on October 1980Dome Petroleum Limited of Calgary, Canada, announced it has entered into a letter of intent with the Japanese National Oil Company. This letter confirms an agreement, in principle, whereby the Japanese National Oil Company has agreed to lend Dome Petroleum Limited $400 million for use in co
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on October 1980Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO), New Orleans, is marketing three new waste heat recovery evaporators for the production of fresh water. Applications include offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, pipelaying barges, tankers, cargo vessels, tugboats, survey ships, etc. The
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on October 1980Frank W. McBee Jr., president of Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, and Robert Mainhardt, president of MBAssociates, San Ramon, Calif., have jointly announced the completion of the merger of MBAssociates (MBA) into a wholly owned subsidiary of Tracor. Terms of the merger, approved by the director
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on October 1980JESCO, Inc., a Unit of AMCA International Corporation located in Fulton, Miss., has received a contract for approximately $2.5 million for the design and construction of manufacturing facilities at Wiley Manufacturing in Port Deposit, Md. The facilities are part of an expansion project at W
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on October 1980The appointment of Howard F. Casey as deputy superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., with the rank of Commodore, U.S. Maritime Service (USMS), was announced recently by Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs. Commodore Casey ha
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on October 1980ARCTEC, internationally known Canadian specialist in cold regions engineering and research, have acquired a majority interest in the Offshore Technology Corporation (OTC) of Escondido, Calif. OTC currently operates two of the largest model test basins in the world, and serves the needs freo
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on October 1980Curtis L. Taylor has been named managing director of Offshore Marine Limited, an oilfield supply vessel firm based in Great Yarmouth, England. He will direct the operation of that company, which recently was acquired by Zapata Off-Shore Services Limited, Zapata Corporation's U.K. subsidiary
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on October 1980John J. McMullen Associates, Inc. (JJMA), naval architects, marine engineers and consultantants, has announced the opening of its newest office at 12 Case Street in Norwich, Conn. This office will operate in conjunction with JJMA's detail design office in Newport News, Va., under the guidan
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on October 1980Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aluminum Company of America, has signed a contract with Japan's Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering, Ltd. for three combination liquid/dry bulk carrier vessels. The contract, valued at more than $80 million, calls for the first of t
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on October 1980N.E.I. Clarke Chapman Cranes Ltd. of the United Kingdom recently signed a license agreement with Paceco, Inc. of Alameda, Calif., the world's largest designer and builder of container-handling cranes. After operating several months under an ad hoc arrangement, the two companies signed the agr
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on October 1980Garlock has developed a synthetic fiber for the manufacture of general service packings, according to an announcement by E.S. Kuhnen, vice president and general manager, Compression Packing Division, Garlock Inc. A synthetic organic polymer, the new fiber will provide a pure, non- asbestos
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on October 1980Maritel, Inc. has announced the commissioning of the first JUE- 15A Marisat Terminal. The unit, aboard the Chevron vessel George M. Keller, represents the first installation of the new "Third Generation" JUE-15A terminal from Japan Radio Company, Ltd. (JRC) of Tokyo. The JUE-15A design e v
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on October 1980new shipyard, Moss Point Marine, Inc., has opened on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and will specialize in the construction of barges, utility boats, and pushboats, according to John Dane III, president. The new facility, on the East Pascagoula River near Moss Point, Miss., occupies a 17- acre
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on September 15, 1980The motor vessel Conti-Karla, fourth of six towboats under construction by Jeffboat, Incorporated for ContiCarriers and Terminals, Inc., was christened recently at the Navy Pier in Chicago. ContiCarriers and Terminals is a subsidiary of Continental Grain Company, with headquarters in Des Pl
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on September 15, 1980The keel was laid recently for the first of four 6,000-bhp Friendship Class pushboats being manufactured by Dravo Corporation's Engineering Works Division for the People's Republic of China. The vessel will measure 45.7 meters by 12.8 meters by 3.5 meters (150 feet by 42 feet by l i y 2 feet
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on September 15, 1980Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Wash., has been awarded a contract to construct nine 270- foot, medium-endurance cutters for the United States Coast Guard. Original contract price for the cutters is $378 million; however, with the escalation factor b u i l t into the contract price, ke