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Simmonds To Provide

LNG Transfer Systems

For Ships At Quincy

Simmonds Precision Products,

Inc., 150 White Plains Road, Tar- rytown, N.Y. 10591, has announced that it has received an initial con- tract to provide the LNG (liquefied natural gas) custody transfer sys- tems on three oceangoing tankers.

The tankers, designed to carry

LNG from Algeria to"the United

States, will 'be built for the Burmah

Oil Company by General Dynamics at Quincy, Mass.

Geoffrey R. Simmonds, president, said the systems will include equip- ment to accurately measure the amount of LNG contained at cryo- genic temperatures (-260 degrees

Fahrenheit) in five spherical tanks aboard each of the three ships. A typical custody transfer system in- cludes a network of sensors for the measurement of LNG tank levels, density, pressure and temperature.

These signals are converted elec- tronically into highly accurate tank quantity data which is displayed on an electronic control room con- sole.

In addition to the initial contract,

General Dynamics holds an option on Simmonds Precision custody transfer systems for additional

LNG tankers. The dollar values of the contract and the options were not disclosed.

It is estimated that more than 100 LNG tankers will be required by 1985 to import LNG to the Unir- ted States, Japan and Western Eur- ope. In addition to these shipboard installations, dockside LNG mea- surement systems will be required to monitor the loading and unload- ing of the tankers.

The company will immediately expand its technical and marketing manpower in support of future ac- tivities in the rapidly growing LNG market, Mr. Simmonds said.

Simmonds Precision, a leader in aerospace fuel gaging systems, pro- vided cryogenic gaging systems for the Apollo and Skylab programs.

Similar systems are now in devel- opment for the Space Shuttle.

Halter Marine Delivers

Two Motor Vessels

To Euro-Pirates Int'l

Halter Marine Fabricators of

Moss Point, Miss, has delivered the motor vessels Red Beard and Black

Beard. The two vessels were built by Halter Marine for Euro-Pirates

International, Inc. of New Orleans,

La. They are in a series of vessels being built for Charlie Slater, bet- ter known as Champagne Charlie, a New Orleans hotel owner (French

Quarter Inn).

The 176-foot by 38-foot by 14- foot vessels are both certified by the American Bureau of Shipping for A-l and Full Ocean, and also by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Upon delivery, Red Beard and

Black Beard are scheduled to ser- vice the offshore oil and mineral industry off the coast of Brazil.

TBI Names Macaulay

Naval Architect And

Production Manager

William C. Sandifer, president of TBI Products, Inc., 36 Cutler

Street, Stonington, Conn., has an- nounced the appointment of James

R. Macaulay as production mana- ger, naval architect and marin* * engineer. He will be responsibl« for the efficient and economical op eration of the manufacture of work tugs and yachts, as well as the as- sociated design work.

Mr. Macaulay comes to TBI

Products with five years of expe- rience in naval architecture and marine engineering with General

Dynamics Corporation's Electric

Boat Division. His most recent position was project engineer for the Trident submarine design.

Mr. Macaulay holds a degree in naval architecture and marine en- gineering from the University of

Michigan. He is a native of Water- bury, Conn.

TBI Products, Inc. has, for the past four years, been involved in the production of work tugs, open launches and yachts. Recently they have expanded their production line to produce a workiboat suitable for environmental protection in the form of a pollution boom towboat for containment of oil spills. They are presently working on a design for hull-cleaning equipment. onmm* • tuP new

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