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Frank Nemec Steps Up To

Vice Chairman Of Lykes Bros.;

W.J. Amoss Jr. Named President

W.J. Amoss Jr.

Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chairman of Lykes-

Youngstown Corporation, has announced seven executive appointments made by the board of directors at a recent meeting in New Orleans.

La.

George S. Kimmel, of New Orleans, vice president and comptroller of LYC and vice president-finance of its steel producing sub- sidiary, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., was named to the LYC board of directors to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Solon

B. Turman.

Frank A. Nemec, New Orleans, president of

LYC and chairman and chief executive officer of Youngstown Steel, steps up to become vice chairman of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., another principal LYC subsidiary.

W.J. Amoss Jr., iNew Orleans, succeeds Mr.

Nemec as president of the Lykes shipping or- ganization. He was formerly executive vice president.

Mac G. Bulloch Jr., also of New Orleans, becomes vice president-operations of Lykes

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Jennings R. Lambeth, Youngstown, Ohio, be- comes the new president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., succeeding Mr. Nemec in this post. Mr. Nemec retains his post as chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Lambeth was senior vice president-marketing.

R.C. Rieder, Dallas, senior vice president- manufacturing of Youngstown Steel and presi- dent of its Continental Etnsco Division, was one of two executive vice presidents named to

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.

Thomas A. Cleary Jr. of Youngstown,Ohio, was the other executive vice president of

Youngstown Steel named. He was formerly senior vice president-operations.

Ocean-Oil International

Announces Expansion Plans

Hector V. Pazos, P.E., president of Ocean-

Oil International Engineering Corporation, has announced that Ocean-Oil is entering the marine brokerage activity on an international basis in addition to its present services.

For the past two years, this company has been primarily engaged in naval architecture consultation, with emphasis on the application of computers. Its expertise also includes ma- rine salvage operations; marine loss preven- tion ; safety analysis and design for towing op- erations ; stress analysis, as well as vibration analysis.

As marine brokers, Ocean-Oil has compiled an extensive listing of vessels for sale: fishing boats, tugboats, barges, coasters, ferryboats, tankers, etc.

Mr. Pazos emphasizes that Ocean-Oil can assist clients looking for a vessel either as con- sultants or as brokers. As consultants, they can assist a client by applying their expertise in naval architecture, making an impartial survey of the vessel or vessels under consideration, incorporating any technical recommendations, sketches, drawings or other additions of bene- fit to the client from an engineering point of view.

The naval architecture firm is moving to larger offices located at 3019 Mercedes Boule- vard, New Orleans, La. 70114. $1 Million To Western Gear

For Motion Control Systems

On North Sea Drill Rigs

Western Gear Corporation has received an order in excess of $1 million from Sphere Over- seas Supply, Inc., acting as agent for Waage

Drilling A/S and Oslo Drilling A/S, for two shipsets of the firm's Pipemaster line of heave compensators, riser tensioners, and guideline tensioners for use in offshore drilling under severe sea conditions.

The order is the first for the advanced pro- prietary systems and will be manufactured by the firm's Heavy Machinery Division in Ever- ett, Wash.

The units will be installed on two huge self- propelled semisubmersible offshore rigs being built by Avondale Shipyards at Morgan City,

La., and by the Aker Group in Norway. Both will be completed in 1973 at a cost of about $25 million each.

One rig, the Waage Drill II, will be oper- ated by a subsidiary of Santa Fe International

Corporation in a joint venture with Waage

Drilling A/S & Co. of Oslo, Norway. The oth- er, the Odin, will be owned by Oslo Drilling

A/,S and will be operated by Bow Valley In- dustries, Ltd.

The units are among the first to be designed specifically for all-weather year-round use and will operate in rigorous climatic conditions of the North Sea, where activities are now limited by severe weather.

From keel to drilling deck the rigs will meas- ure 152 feet, with another 160 feet for the drill- ing mast. The vessels will be 320 feet long and 293 feet wide, will house 77 men, and are equip- ped for drilling to 25,000 feet.

The Western Gear Pipemaster heave com- pensator, recently introduced to the offshore oil drilling industry, acts somewhat like a giant shock absorber. The device cancels out the relative motion between the ship and -the ocean floor caused by wave action, thus maintaining constant drill bit position and pressure.

The riser tensioner system automatically maintains a constant upward pull on the riser pipe, which is unsupported from the drilling platform to the ocean floor wellhead. The guideline tensioners are positioned on the rig floor and regulate tension on the guidelines extending to the base plate on the ocean floor.

Both systems automatically compensate for the; heave of the vessel and maintain tension with- in narrow limits, adjustable relative to the depth of the water.

Both rigs will have heave compensators with a 20-foot stroke, riser tensioners with 80,000 pounds of line pull and 50-foot stroke, and guideline tensioners with 16,000 pounds of line pull and 50-foot stroke.

As self-propelled rigs with a draft of 25 feet when under way, the Waage drilling vessels will have an unassisted speed of about seven knots with 8,000 shaft horsepower.

The Waage firm is associated with the Nor- wegian shipowners, Hagb. Waage, managers of Rederiaktieselskapet Ruch, Waages Tank- rederi A/S, and Waages Tankrederi: II A/S.

The Waage group owns a large fleet of oil tankers comprising more than 1,200,000 tons.

Oslo Drilling has the following partners:

Home Oil Co., Calgary; Bow Valley Indus- tries, Ltd, Calgary; Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Oslo,

Norway, and Hagb. Waage, Oslo, Norway.

Both rigs will fly the Norwegian flag.

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Frank A. Nemec 40 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News