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Sun To Reserve Ways

To Build LNGs Under $2.5-Million Award

Pacific Lighting Service Co., 810

South Flower Street, Los Angeles,

Calif. 90017, ihas announced it has signed a $2.5 - million contract which could lead to the purchase of up to five tankers from Sun

Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.,

Chester, Pa.

The tankers would be used for transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Southern California from overseas sources.

Pacific Lighting Service is a sub- sidiary of Los Angeles-based Pa- cific Lighting Corp., a parent com- pany of Southern California Gas

Co.

Paul A. Miller, chairman of the (board of Pacific Lighting Corp., said the contract will cover eco- nomic, naval architectural, marine engineering and ecological studies, to produce the most advanced de- sign capable of reliably and eco- nomically serving Southern and

Central California natural gas con- sumers.

Construction facilities for the ships will be reserved by Sun dur- ing the three-to-four-month study period.

Mr. Miller said that under the contract, Pacific Lighting has the option to purchase a minimum of two and a maximum of five ships.

If a construction contract is agreed upon, the first ship is tentatively scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 1976.

Mr. Miller emphasized that a study to determine Pacific Light- ing's role in the ownership and operation of these vessels is under- way. The 130,000-cubic-meter 23- knot service speed ships will utilize t'he Conch containment system, a proven design which uses self-sup- porting aluminum tanks. The ships will cost $100 million each.

Mr. Miller said the ships will be used to transport LNG from

Alaska and Indonesia to Southern

California.

Subsidy application for those vessels which will be engaged in the Indonesian trade was made earlier this year to the Federal

Maritime Administration.

Paceco Appoints

John L. King

John L. King

John L. King has been named sales manager-international for Pa- ceco, a Division of Fruehauf 'Cor- poration, Alameda, Calif.

Mr. King was formerly a project manager for the firm. His new du- ties will encompass worldwide travel, contacting customers and the firm's representatives in more than 50 countries. He is already familiar with many of the areas in his new assignment, having trav- eled in Europe and Asia for Paceco in previous assignments.

Summer Program On

Ship Structural Analysis

At M.I.T. June 11-15

The Massachusetts Institute of

Technology Department of Ocean En- gineering has announced a five-day summer program on "Ship Structural

Analysis and Design," to be given at the institute in Cambridge, Mass.,

June 11 through June 15, 1973.

The intent of this special summer program is to discuss several of the most important aspects of ship struc- tural design as they have developed during the very recent past. The pro- gram is an outgrowth of the book "Ship Structural Design Concepts," to be published this spring. Lectures will be given on the statistics of hull loadings and structural strength, com- pression strength of welded grillages, strength of welded gross panels under combined loads, first cycle midship section design synthesis and applica- tions of optimization and structural synthesis methods.

Further information may be ob- tained by writing to: Director of

Summer Session, Room E19-356,

M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. 02139.

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