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GEORGE E. MEESE

NAVAL ARCHITECTS • MARINE ENGINEERS

CONSULTANTS • SURVEYORS

DESIGNS FOR YACHTS AND COMMERCIAL VESSELS

WOOD — ALUMINUM -- STEEL — PLASTIC

TELEPHONE 194 ACTION ROAD

COLONIAL 3-4054 ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

Designer of Marine METRITAPE®

Liquid Level Gauging for: CARGO • BALLAST • FUEL OIL • LUBE OIL • DRAFT • TRIM • BILGE • TIDE & WAVE

Remote Reading • Analog Digital • Indep. of Sp. Gr

METRITAPE, Inc. W. Concord, Mass. 01742 • 617-369-7500

ROBERT MOORE CORPORATION

MARINE ENGINEERS 350 Main Street, Port

Washington, N.Y. 11050 (516) 883-7660

CONSULTANTS

Eastern Representatives:

STAR IRON & STEEL CO.

Tacoma, Washington

Custom Cranes & Hoists • Bridge, Gantry, Portal,

Revolving, Container Handling

NAVAC, INC.—Naval Architect Visual Aid Company ^ P.O. Box 781, Manor Branch

V - NEW CASTLE, DELAWARE 19720 m A 302/322-1243 609/234-0898

Mmr — MODELS —

MACHINERY SPACE • ANCHOR HANDLING • TANK TEST

SHELL PLATING • EXPERIMENTAL • DISPLAY

NICKUM & SPAULDING ASSOCIATES, INC.

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 71 Columbia Street, Seattle, Wash. 98104 (206) 622-4954

OCEAN-OIL INTERNATIONAL

ENGINEERING CORPORATION 3019 Mercedes Blvd., New Orleans, Louisiana 70114, U.S.A.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS • MARINE BROKERS

Hector V.

Pazos, P.E. 504/367-4072 504/366-9998

DRYDOCKS

AND TRANSFER

SYSTEMS

Estimates at no cost or obligation

PEARLSON ENGINEERING CO., INC.

P.O. BOX 8/MIAMI, FLA. 33156/(305) 271-5721

TELEX: 051-9340/CABLE: SYNCROLIFT

S. L. PETCHUL, INC.

Naval Architect - Marine Surveyor 8-D South New River Drive East

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33301 • (305) 525-4991 -total FIBERGLASS »rviees^ "" • Nav. Arch./Engineering • Protypes, Models • • New Designs, Shipalts • Repair Surveys • • Navy, CG & Comm'l Specs (Conversions

SIDNEY MERRITT POLHEMUS

Ballouville Rd. R FD 2 Day ville,Conn.06241 (203)7741116,

POTTER & McARTHUR, INC.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS - CONSULTING ENGINEERS

Design • Survey • Brokerage

ROD • Automation • EDP

Marine Management Systems

POMAR Workboots • Yachts

Tugboats • Ferries

SALES Marine Equipment 253 Northern Ave., Boston, Mass. 02210 617-542-0850

M. ROSENBLATT & SON, Inc.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS MARINE ENGINEERS

NEW YORK CITY 350 Broadway (212) 431-6900

SAN FRANCISCO 657 Mission St. (415) EX 7-3596

SCHMAHL AND SCHMAHL, INC.

Marine Surveyors—Average Adjusters—

Technical Consultants

HULL—ENGINE—CARGO—P & I 1209 S.E. Third Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 (305) 522-0689 Miami Line 944-4512 Telex 51-4489

GEORGE G. SHARP CO.

MARINE ENGINEERS

NAVAL ARCHITECTS

SYSTEMS ANALYSTS

MARINE SURVEYORS 100 CHURCH STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10007 (212) 732-2800

T.UI. SPHETGEFIS

CONSULTING VIBRATION ENGINEER • Torsional Vibration • Hull Vibration • Vibration Isolation Fatigue Stress Analysis 156 W. 8th Ave.

Our 24th Year Vancouver 10, Canada

Serving U.S. Clients 604-879-2974

R. A. STEARN INC.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS & MARINE ENGINEERS 100 Iowa Street

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

I'icliard r.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS/MARINE ENGINEERS 44 COURT STREET/BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201 (212) 522-2115

H. M. TIEDEMANN & COMPANY, INC.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS—MARINE ENGINEERS

SURVEYORS—CONSULTANTS—R&D

ONE STATE STREET PLAZA

NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004 (212) 944-5532

WEATHER

Exclusively for the Maritime Industry

WEATHER ROUTING, INC. 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N.Y.

Tel.: HA 5-9644 Cable address: WEATHERWAY

WHITMAN, REQUARDT AND

ASSOCIATES • ENGINEERS

Complete Engineering Services

SHIPBUILDING FACILITIES

WATER FRONT STRUCTURES

BALTIMORE MARYLAND

Modular Systems, Inc.

Issues New Brochure

On Packaged Fluid Systems

A new brochure, devoted to packaged fluid systems, has been issued by Modular Systems,

Inc., 1259 Route 46, Parsippany, N.J. 07054.

In the marine field, the applications for these systems encompass oil (fuel, lubricating and hydraulic), water (fresh, salt and potable), vacuum priming and in fact, any piping sys- tem that is packageable.

Modular Systems points out that any ship- owner or operator can produce his own fluid system but reveals graphically hundreds of op- erations in the average system on which scores of individuals consume thousands of manhours to do so. These involve costly personnel in the engineering, procurement and production de- partments. The result, MSI claims, will always be a system that occupies more space and costs considerably more than one engineered and produced by their experienced engineers and skilled craftsmen.

The purchaser's engineering department need only prepare one specification for the per- formance and functional requirements of the required system and issue only one purchase order. MSI do-es everything else and finally de- livers one integrated package, ready for instal- lation. Most important, should a problem arise with an MSI System, the owner or operator need waste no time in trying to solve it be- cause MSI assumes all responsibility for the entire system.

French Built Ship Carries

First LNG Brunei To Japan —Six More Ships To Be Built

The first cargo in the multimillion dollar scheme to export liquefied natural gas from

Brunei to Japan was loaded on the new LNG carrier Gadinia at Lumut, Brunei, on Decem- ber 9. Under the scheme, some 95-million tons of pollution-free LNG will be delivered to Ja- pan over the next 20 years. The delivered value of the LNG will total more than (U.S.) $2.6 billion.

The Gadinia, which loaded some 75,000 cubic meters of LNG, .is the first of seven such spe- cialized ships to be built. They will be on charter by Shell Tankers (U.K.) Limited to

Coldgas Trading Limited, a company jointly owned by Royal Dutch/Shell and Mitsubishi interests. Coldgas Trading purchases the LNG from Brunei LNG Limited, whose sharehold- ers are 'the Brunei Government, Mitsubishi, and a Royal Dutch/Shell Group company.

Brunei LNG owns and operates the liquefac- tion plant at Lumut, Brunei. The natural gas for the plant is supplied by Brunei Shell Petro- leum Company Limited from its offshore fields.

Tokyo Electric, Tokyo Gas, and Osaka Gas contracted in 1970 to purchase 3.7-million tons of LNG per annum by 1976, and agreement in principle was reached early last year for an additional 1.5-million tons per annum from 1975. The first contractual year starts in April, but meanwhile running-in of the system is tak- ing place.

The Gadinia was constructed at Chantiers de l'Atlantique. Saint Nazaire, France, which will also build three more of the ships. The oth- er ships are also being constructed in France, one at Chantiers Navals de la Ciotat, La Ciotat, and two others at Constructions Navales et In- dustrielles de la Mediterrannee at La Seyne.

All of these ships are expected to be in oper- ation by early 1976.

The approximate measurements and princi- pal characteristics of the Gadinia are: length, 843 feet; beam, 115 feet; draft, 31 feet; shaft horsepower. 20,800, and a service speed of 17- 18 knots. The dimensions are approximately those of a 100.000-dwt crude carrier.

The first of the five liquefaction "trains" of

Brunei LNG's plant at Lumut was brought on stream in October 1972. The construction of the plant and all related facilities is being car- ried out under Shell's technical direction. The main construction contractors are Japan Gaso- line of Tokyo, in association with Procon In- corporated of Des Plaines, U.S.A. The Air

Products and Chemicals Inc. cryogenic design was selected for the liquefaction process..

Two 28-inch lines bring the gas ashore from the southwest Ampa gas field some 12 miles out from shore.

After liquefaction, which is carried out by cooling the gas to minus 161 degrees centi- grade, the LNG is piped into storage at Lumut and then loaded over the stern of the LNG carrier moored at the end of a 2j4-mile-long jetty, necessary to reach the required depth of water.

On completion of the 2,500-mile voyage to

Japan, the LNG is delivered ex-ship to the three customers at their receiving, storage and regasification terminals. When the system is in full operation, there will be more than 150 cargoes per year delivered to Japan.

When regasified, LNG vaporizes into 600 times its liquid volume. The Brunei natural gas has a calorific value approximately double that of the town gas now used in Japan. One cargo of LNG from Brunei would fulfill the needs of well over 100,000 homes in Japan for one year at today's average domestic rate of consumption.

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