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Offshore Logistics, Inc.

Opens Singapore Subsidiary —Building Six Vessels

Burt Keenan, president of Offshore Logis- tics, Inc., Lafayette, La., has announced the organization of Offshore Logistics Far East (PTE), Ltd., an operational subsidiary in Sing- apore, to serve the offshore oil industry in

Southeast Asia.

The wholly-owned subsidiary's office is at

Stamford House, 37 Stamford Road, Singa- pore 6, Singapore. Its operational area will be the offshore portions of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, including the South China Sea,

Gulf of Siam, and the Timor Sea.

The establishment of the new Southeast

Asian headquarters comes hard on the heels of major activities by the world's largest oil and gas producing companies to develop petroleum potential in that section of the world. "The equipment necessary to support exploration and producing activities in Southeast Asia re- quires unusual design specifications for long range operations in ocean areas remote from supply sources," said Mr. Keenan. He added that to meet these requirements. Offshore Lo- gistics has tinder construction for summer de- livery six of the oil industry's largest and fastest ocean towing and supply vessels.

Two of the vessels will be 200 feet in length, and designed to carry 5,000-cubic feet of bulk materia s in below-deck storage or 800 tons of drill pipe, tubing or other deck cargo at speeds in excess of 20 miles per hour. These vessels each have 5,600-hp propulsion systems to ex- tend their operational capabilities.

The four other ships designed for use in re- mote areas of the world include two 185-foot and two 175-foot towing and supply vessels of 5,600 hp and 4,000 hp respectively. Each of the six new vessels is equipped with hydraulically- driven towing and anchor winches, and each has a complete backup system for all major operating components. In addition, all are equipped with bow thrusters for more flexible service.

Stewart W. Daigle has been appointed man- ager of marine operations for Offshore Logis- tics Far East (PTE), Ltd., in Singapore. Ad- ditional operating personnel will be assigned to the new subsidiary from the parent com- pany's Morgan City offices. Offshore Logistics

Far East (PTE) will be fully operational by

July 1, 1970.

Prior to joining Offshore Logistics in De- cember 1969 as special assistant to the presi- dent, Mr. Daigle spent 20 years in offshore op- erations with a major oil company. His experi- ence will enable Offshore Logistics to provide in-depth operational expertise in Southeast

Asia.

Offshore Logistics presently owns and op- erates 33 crew and supply vessels. Operating headquarters are in Morgan City, La., and ex- ecutive and administrative headquarters are in

Lafayette, La.

Los Angeles Sect. Hears Paper

On Computer Aided Approach

To Design Of Sailing Yachts

Pictured at the Los Angeles meeting, left to right: T.B.

Wilson, Section vice-chairman; H. Motin, papers com- mittee; B.J. Young, author; R.A. Rourke, chairman of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section; and D. Logon, secretary-treasurer.

The last formal session of the Los Angeles

Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers for the 1969- 70 season was held at the Buggy Whip restau- rant.

The social hour was followed by dinner dur- ing which the tradition of honoring past chair- men of the section was observed, and the newly elected section officers were introduced. The technical session was devoted to an informa- tive paper titled, "A Computer-Aided Approach to Optimizing the Design of Sailing Yacht

Rigs," which was presented by the author,

Bernard J. Young, who is currently a graduate student at Michigan.

Mr. Young's paper discussed the problems of designing optimum sailing yachts. An op- timization problem is formulated based on ex- trapolated towing tank data of the yacht hull and sail force data determined by analytical techniques. A nonlinear optimization method which may take into account the measurement rule and the time allowance is proposed for solving the problem. Calculations are presented for one aspect of the problem, that of sailing . close hauled under a single sail, which demon- strates the feasibility of the proposed method.

The results indicate that the complete problem can be solved where adequate data are given.

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