Page 18: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (November 15, 1973)

Gulf Oil Trading

Announces Several

Personnel Changes

Gulf Oil Trading Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation, has announced a number of person- nel changes.

Richard K. Penland, manager- supply and transportation in Lon- don, has been named general man- ager-logistics planning in the Plan ning and Project Development De- partment in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr.

Penland is a'graduate of the Uni- versity of South Carolina and joined Gulf in 1967.

E.F. Diebes has joined the com- pany as general manager-oil proj- ects and economic analysis, Plan- ning and Project Development De- partment. Mr. Diebes holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in petroleum en- gineering from the University of

Texas and University of Toronto, respectively, and has also attended the University of London.

Jon >N. Deakin, formerly man- ager-supply, trading and cargo sales, New York, has been named general manager-operations in the

Supply and Transportation Depart- ment in Pittsburgh.

Peter E. Luitwieler, formerly director-sales coordination in Pitts- burgh, has been transferred to New

York as manager-supply, trading and cargo sales. Mr. Luitwieler joined Gulf in 1965 and holds de- grees from Dartmouth College and the Amos Tuck School of Business.

Wayne R. Peters has been trans- ferred to London as manager-sup- ply and transportation. Mr. Peters, who had been manager-supply operations in Pittsburgh, joined the company in 1953.

W.J. Hindson, formerly manager- performance analysis and short term optimization, has been named manager-supply operations in the

Supply and Transportation Depart- ment.

Marathon Mfg. Names

Morris To Two Posts

George H. Morris

George H. Morris, a Houstonian, has been elected a vice president of

Marathon Manufacturing Com- pany, according to a statement by

Gene M. Woodfin, president and chief executive officer of Marathon. "Mr. Morris has also been pro- moted to president of our subsidi- ary, Marathon LeTourneau Off- shore Pte. Ltd. in Singapore," said

Mr. Woodfin. Mr. Morris has been managing director of that facility since February this year and before that assignment, had been assistant general manager of the Singapore plant. He holds an engineering de- gree from Texas A&M University.

Marathon's Singapore shipyard covers 35 acres and has more than 800 employees, according to a

Marathon spokesman. The yard builds and repairs mobile offshore drilling platforms and related equipment.

The parent organization is a manufacturer of industrial metal products and is a major builder of mobile offshore drilling platforms.

Marathon shipyards are located in

Vicksburg, Miss., Brownsville,

Texas, and Clydebank, Scotland, in addition to Singapore.

Pacific Resources, Inc.

Negotiating With Todd

To Build Three OBOs

The Maritime Administration has received an application for a construc- tion differential subsidy from Pa- cific Resources, (Inc., located at 1060

Bishop Street, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Pacific is negotiating with Todd

Shipyards Corporation in connection with plans to construct three 80,000 dwt ore/bulk/oil (OBO) carriers, at an estimated cost of $34,800,000 per ship.

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