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Rose Barge Names

Griglione And Antrainer

William J. Griglione and Norman

Antrainer have been appointed to newly created positions at Rose

Barge Line, Inc., it was announced by Earl C. Rose Jr., president.

Mr. Griglione was named vice president for dispatch operations, and Mr. Antrainer was appointed port captain of Kenner Bend Fleet of New Orleans.

The company serves dry bulk commodity shippers on the Missis- sippi and Illinois River Systems 'between Chicago, 111., and New Or- leans, La. Headquarters are in Clay- ton, Mo.

Mr. Griglione will be responsible for round - the - clock communica- tions with shippers' terminals and the Rose Barge Line fleet of eight towboats and 220 barges. A native of Marseilles, 111., he joined the company in 1965, and has been serving as assistant vice president- dispatch.

Mr. Antrainer will supervise op- erations of Kenner Bend Fleet, a service division of Kenner Ship- yard, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rose Barge Line. A graduate of Central Methodist Col- lege in Fayette, Mo., he has been serving in the operations depart- ment at headquarters.

Mr. Rose also announced the ad- dition to the fleet of the towboat

Pixie Rose, which will operate in and out of Kenner Bend.

Electric and Gas Company of New

Jersey for two floating nuclear plants to be sited off Little Egg

Hailbor, N.J., with delivery sched- uled for 1979 and 1980.

In July, Middle South Utilities

System signed a conditional letter of intent for two floating nuclear plants to be sited in south Louisi- ana, with operation scheduled for 1982 and 1984.

The six plants under commitment to Offshore Power Systems are part of the initial eight essentially identical plants that are being re- viewed for licensing by the Atomic

Energy Commission. On June 8 of this year, the AEC accepted the application from Offshore Power

Systems for official review. Ap- proval is expected sometime in 1975, when the manufacturing fa- cility to produce the floating nuclear plants will be completed.

Mr. Stadelman pointed out that even before ground had been broken on the manufacturing facility to be built on Blount Island, "Offshore

Power Systems has a backlog in sales exceeding two billion dollars, with additional sales expected shortly."

Why 9 of the world s largest

LNG tankers will have innards of Invar alloy.

Floating Nuclear Plant

Commitments Exceed

Two Billion Dollars

Offshore Power Systems, 8000

Arlington Expressway, Jackson- ville, Fla. 32211, has announced that the Jacksonville Electric Au- thority has unanimously approved a resolution to sign a letter of intent for the purchase of two floating nuclear plants to be delivered for commercial operation in 1982 and 1984, respectively.

The two 1150 MW units, which will be manufactured at Offshore

Power Systems' facility on Blount

Island in Jacksonville, are to be sited off the north Florida coast at a location still to be determined.

In announcing the letter of intent,

OPS vice president J.R. Stadelman called the action by the JEA "a positive step in the future growth of Jacksonville," a city that has made remarkable progress since it consolidated its government five years ago, almost to the day.

The letter of intent is expected to 'become a firm contract within six months after a number of con- ditions are studied, evaluated and resolved. The move by the JEA brings the backlog of units under commitment to Offshore Power

Systems to six, representing a total of approximately 2.25 billion dollars in sales.

Offshore Power Systems, a West- inghouse - Tenneco enterprise, has a firm contract with Public Service 44 'Registered Trademark of Socifitfi Creusot-Loire [IMPHY) 1. Economy of scale Membrane tanks of Invar* 36% nickel-iron alloy maximize cargo space, help lower transportation cost per unit, according to Gaz Transport.

Invar's flat membrane construction easily welds into trapezoidal tanks. Compared to other shapes, trapezoids fit more easily into a rectangular hull; they squeeze into the tightest ends of a ship. The space economy of Invar's •» flat membrane construction becomes even more attrac- tive as LNG shippers turn to larger vessels—755,000 bbl. 30 or 120,000 m3. Increased cargo space, low construction costs, and automatic welding are among many of the reasons to choose Invar for future LNG tankers. 20 10,000 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 100,000 2 (Source: J. Trollux, Perspectives. Economiques du Transport Maritime de Gaz

Naturel Liquefie, Second International Conference on LNG, Paris, 1970.) 2. Because Invar's membrane is flat, 90% of all welding can be done a-atomaticallY, with a portable, lightweight electrical-resistance welding machine.