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GE Receives Two Marine Gas Turbine Orders

Artist's concept of Chevron's 35,000-dwt turbine tankers under construction at FMC Marine and Rail Equipment Division.

General Electric Company's Gas Turbine

Products Division has received two separate orders to supply marine gas turbines for ships which will be used by Standard Oil 'Company of California (Chevron), and Union Steamship

Company of New Zealand, according to A.J.

Travaly, manager of GE's gas turbine marine sales.

Chevron, which already has a fleet of three 35,000-dwt gas turbine-powered tankers on or- der with GE, exercised its option for the fourth vessel. The shi'ps are being constructed by

FMC Marine and Rail Equipment Division (formerly Gunderson Inc.), Portland, Ore. This new products carrier will be the same type as the previous ones. A 12,500-hp, Model Series 3002, twin-shaft regenerative-cycle gas turbine will drive an AC salient-pole generator that will supply power to a 12,500-shp synchronous propulsion motor.

Union iSteam-ship will be receiving its second and third GE-designed gas turbine-powered ship with this new order. GE's gas turbine manufacturing associate in Holland, NV Mo- torenfabriek Thomassen, received the gas tur- bine order.

Union Steamship vessel will be a roll-on/ roll-off type. Whyalla Shipyard in Australia is where the 12,500-dwt ship will be construct- ed. This makes five gas turbine ships in

Whyalla.

A GE Model Series 5002, rated at 26,000Mhp, wild drive a generator which will provide power to two propellers. One of the unique features of this ship is the forward-end placement of the propulsion system. This will allow more cargo space and greater accessibility in utiliz- ing the added space.

Mr. Travaly pointed out that these two orders bring the total number of commercial ships powered by heavy-duty gas turbines to 10. He also said: "Very soon the first modern

GE gas turbine-powered ship will be at sea when Broken Hill Proprietary's Iron Monarch goes into service. The first Chevron ship will prdbably go into service in 1974. These two new ships will go into service in 1975."

Riley Beaird Inc. Receives

Maxim Evaporator Contract

For Three Large Tankers

Maxim Evaporators recently received a con- tract from Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Spar- rows Point Shipyard to supply one of the larg- est unfired contaminated steam generators yet for a marine application. One of these gen- erators, with a rated capacity of 110,000#/hr of steam at 145 psig, will be installed aboard each of the three largest oil tankers to be built in any U.S. shipyard to date. Steam will be used to heat the oil storage tanks.

These ships, rated at 265,000 deadweight tons each, will be operated by MPC-Boston

Tankers, Inc. Two more ships of this class have been sold to Gulf Oil Corporation, and the contract for another two to Maritime Fruit

Carriers Co., Ltd. is pending Maritime Ad- ministration approval.

Each generator, which incorporates the Max- im thermal circulation design, is 6 feet in diameter and 24 feet long and will be con- structed from carbon steel materials. Heating steam is supplied at 650 psig, and Maxim in- corporates a second heating bundle with its own controls to permit efficient operation at low loads. With each generator, a multi-shell multi-tube pass drain cooler/feed preheater will be supplied. This heat exchanger, which is 18 inches O.D. x 21 feet long, will preheat the feed to the generator while sub-cooling the high-pressure steam drains which are returned to the ship's boiler system. All necessary con- trols are included in the package to provide continuous automatic operation.

Maxim is a trade name of Riley-Beaird,

Inc. of Shreveport, La., a subsidiary of The

Riley Company. Maxim evaporators, unfired steam generators and silencers are fabricated by Riley-Beaird at their giant Shreveport fa- cility.

Elpac Inc. Acquires

Towboat From ACBL

Elpac Inc., Houston, Texas, recently ac- quired the 6,500-hp motor vessel Patrick 'Cal- houn Jr., from American Commercial Barge

Lines. The transaction, for approximately $1,000,000 cash, was handled on a sale and leaseback basis. The new towtboat has been added to the Weathers Towing Company, Inc. fleet for operation in the lower Mississippi

River and was immediately placed into towing service under a long-term contract.

Weathers Towing of Greenville, Miss., a wholly owned subsidiary of Elpac, is now operating five large towboats on the inland waterway system, with an additional 3,200-hp new boat scheduled for delivery in mid-1974.

Elpac, basically in the oil and gas-marine transportation industries, is traded over-the- counter. The NASDAQ symbol is ELPC.

Norwegian Navy Awards

Contract To ITT Mackay

An order in excess of $300,000 for communi- cations equipment was announced in Raleigh,

N.C., by ITT Mackay Marine, a division of

International Telephone and Telegraph Cor- poration.

The equipment, to be supplied to the Nor- wegian Royal Navy, consists of 100 receivers,

Type 3021, 'for their communications require- ments.

Brown & Root Announces

Executive Personnel Changes

L.B. Devenney Tony L. Gibson

Darrell W. Fariss

Because of increased foreign marine con- struction, Brown & Root, Inc. has named two new vice presidents and announced the pro- motions of two other officers, according to

Herbert J. Frensley, president and chief ex- ecutive officer.

The executive changes include the promo- tions of L.B. Devenney to senior group vice president and Tony L. Gibson to senior vice president, both in the Middle and Far East

Marine Division. Additionally, Darrell W.

Fariss and Billy E. Stallworth have been elect- ed vice presidents of the company.

Brown & Root, a Halliburton Company, is one of the world's leading engineering and construction firms.

Mr. Devenney, formerly senior vice presi- dent, has extensive international experience, particularly in the Middle East. He has served as vice president of the company's Eastern

Hemisphere Marine Division and as construc- tion manager and vice president of Brown &

Root Overseas, Ltd. Prior to joining Brown & Root in 1962, he served for 12 years with

Aramco Oil Company in Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Gibson, an employee of Brown & Root since 1961, was promoted from vice president,

Middle and Far East Marine. He has worked as cost and field engineer at Das Island in the

Middle East. Advancing through various po- sitions in the Eastern Hemisphere Marine Di- vision, he was manager of sales and estimating before being elected a vice president in 1972.

Mr. Fariss, who assumes the position of vice president, Middle and Far East marine construction, joined Brown & Root in 1961.

Starting as cost engineer for highway and civil construction projects, he later transferred to the marine department where he gained experience in various operations of the com- pany in the Middle East, London and Great

Yarmouth, England. He will transfer from the Houston headquarters to the company's

Bahrain office.

Mr. Stallworth, who had been serving as senior manager and vice president o'f Brown & Root (U.K.) Ltd., headquartered in London, becomes vice president-Europe and Africa Ma- rine Division. His background in marine and heavy industrial work includes experience on projects in the United States, Venezuela, Bra- zil, Paraguay and the Middle East, as well as in Great Britain. His office will remain in

London.

Billy E. Stallworth

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