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Third LNG Conference

Set For Wash., D.C.

The Third International Confer- ence and Exhibition on Liquefied

Natural Gas (LNG-3) will be held in Washington, D.C. from Septem- ber 24 through September 28, 1972.

In conjunction with LNG-3, tours of LNG plant facilities in New

York, Boston and Philadelphia will be conducted on the day fol- lowing the close of the conference.

Plans for the conference were confirmed at a recent steering com- mittee meeting held at the Chi- cago-based fnstitute of Gas Tech- nology (IGT). The sponsors of

LNG-3 are the International Gas

Union (IGU), headquartered in

London, England; and the Inter- national Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), located in Paris, France, and IGT.

The chairman of LNG-3 is G.

Robert, president of IGU. Serving as vice chairmen are Prof. G.G.

Haselden of the University of

Leeds, U.K., representing the IIR, and Dr. Henry Linden, director of

IGT.

Both the LNG-3 conference and exhibition will be held in the

Washington Hilton Hotel. The conference will be divided into sev- en technical sessions. They are: "The Impact of LNG on Gas Sup- ply"; "LNG Technology: Re- search and Development"; "Lique-

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Persons interested in presenting papers at any of the sessions should submit abstracts, not to ex- ceed 200 words in English and/ or French, no later than October 15, 1971, to Program Committee

Secretary, A.G. Higgins, Interna- tional Gas Union, 17, Grosvenor

Crescent, London, S.W. 1, Eng- land. For information to prospec- tive exhibitors, contact either G.

Robert, president, Compagnie

Francaise du Methane, 15 rue de

Lubeck, Paris 16e, France, or W.

Bodle, Institute of Gas Technol- ogy, 3424 South State Street, Chi- cago, 111. 60616.

Those attending the conference may choose to join either of the three optional field trips planned for Friday, September 22, 1972.

The New York bound group will tour LNG plants at Staten Island and Brooklyn. The tour to the

Boston area will consist of trips to an LNG receiving terminal at

Everett, Mass., where an LNG tanker will be unloading, and a visit to the Boston Gas Co.'s LNG facility. In Philadelphia, the group will see the LNG plants of the

Philadelphia Gas Works and of the

Philadelphia Electric Co.

Over the years, the biennial

LNG conferences and exhibitions have become an increasingly popu- lar international event to members of the natural gas and related in- dustries. The second conference attracted over 1,200 delegates from 37 countries to Paris, France, in

October of 1970. Two years be- fore that, the first conference was held in Chicago, 111., with a total attendance of 760.

FIRST OF TWO: Representatives of four interests mork the laying of the keel of the first of two containerships to be built for Pacific Far East Line at Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., yard. From left to right are: William

Zuppe, resident inspector of Pacific Far

East Line; Neil Baker, Maritime Adminis- tration representative; William H. Collins, general manager of the yard, and N.J.

Thompson, George G. Sharp Company. The vessel is due to be launched early next year, at which time the keel for the second vessel will be laid in its place. Delivery of first vessel is expected for the end of 1 972 and the second vessel about mid-1973. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News