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Esso International Promotes

R.S. Kleppe And R.L. Preston

Robert S. Kleppe has been elected a vice- president of Esso International Inc., and ad- vanced from assistant general manager to man- ager of its tanker department.

At the same time, Richard L. Preston has been promoted from tanker operations man- ager to assistant general manager. Esso In- ternational, an affiliate of Standard Oil Com- pany (New Jersey), coordinates international sales, supplies and transportation of crude oil and petroleum products, as well as providing marine management services.

Both Mr. Kleppe and Mr. Preston have en- gineering degrees and both are career employ- ees of the Jersey Standard organization. Mr.

Kleppe is a mechanical engineering graduate of Bucknell University and has a master's de- gree from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

He started with Esso Research and Engineer- ing Company, Linden, N.J., as a junior engi- neer in 1951.

After a variety of promotions in the research company, he was transferred to Esso Interna- tional in 1968 as assistant general manager of the tanker department in New York.

Mr. Preston, an Air Force veteran, has a chemical engineering degree from Cornell Uni- versity. He joined Humble Oil & Refining

Company at Baytown, Texas, as a junior en- gineer in 1949. Two years later he transferred to the Bayonne, N.J., refinery as an engineer and by 1961 rose to plant superintendent.

Mr. Preston joined Esso International in 1963 and since then has risen through a series of promotions to operations manager.

O.A.R.N. Appoints

Oddone General Manager

The board of directors of O.A.R.N. (Officine

Allestimento e Riparazioni Navi) at its April meeting appointed Dott. Ing. Giuseppe Od- done general manager of the company.

The management of O.A.R.N. now consists of Dott. Manrico De Rosa as president, Dott.

Ing. Galliano Meneghetti as vice-president,

Mr. Oddone as general manager, Rag. Giusep- pe Del Brenna as manager of accounting, pur- chasing, personnel and secretarial departments and Dott. Ing. Massimo Pasquali as vice-man- ager of operations.

James R. Porter, with offices at 17 Battery

Place, New York, N.Y., is the firm's represen- tative in the United States. solve ship stability problems

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