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R.W. Peach Opens

Consulting Engineering

Firm In Maryland

Robert W. Peach

Robert W. Peach has announced a new consulting1 engineering serv- ice, R.W. Beach Engineering 'Asso- ciates. The company, which will specialize in mechanics and hy- draulics, is in the Baltimore-Wash- ington-Annapolis area at 888 Pine

Trail, Arnold, Md. 21012.

Mr. Peach has over a quarter century in marine design experi- ence with Bethlehem Steel Com- pany, Central Technical Depart- ment; Electric Boat Division;

Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock

Co.; and Westinghouse Electric

Corporation, Oceanic Division. He is a member of The Society of Na- val Architects and Marine Engi- neers, American Society of Naval

Engineers, Marine Technology So- ciety, and is a registered profes- sional engineer in Connecticut and

Maryland. Both of his degrees,

B.S.E. in naval architecture and marine engineering and M.S.E. in engineering mechanics, are from the University of Michigan. In ad- dition, he has authored about a dozen technical papers in the ma- rine field.

Burmah Oil Ltd.

Tests Produce Oil

Burmah Oil (North Sea) Limi- ted, operator for a group of com- panies drilling in Block 3/3, about 110 miles northeast of the Shet- land Islands, has encountered an economic pay thickness on its first well, 3/3-1.

Burmah officials said a series of drill stem tests carried out on sepa- rate intervals across the reservoir flowed oil through small chokes up to one-half inch at rates from 2,600 barrels to 8,200 barrels per day.

Results so far confirm that a ma- jor part of Ninian Field is within

Block 3/3, which the operator has called an oil discovery of commer- cial importance.

Partners in the Burmah group include Imperial Chemical Indus- tries, 26 percent; Chevron Petro- leum (U.K.) Ltd., 24 percent;

Murphy Petroleum Ltd., 10 per- cent; Ocean Exploration Co., a subsidiary of Ocean Drilling &

Exploration Co., 10 percent, and

Burmah Oil (North Sea) Ltd., 30 percent.

Well 3/3-1 is being drilled by

Odeco's Ocean Kokuei, a self- propelled semisuibmersible unit built in Japan last year.

Pott Industries Plans

Shipyard Improvements

Costing $5.8 Million

Mo., in its annual report said it plans to spend $5.8 million to ex- pand and improve its shipyards this year, compared with $4,648,000 spent in 1973.

All three of the firm's inland shipyards will operate at capacity in 1974 and "well beyond," said

Richard P. Conerly, president. After the Houma, La., shipyard com- pletes four vessels for an outside customer this year, the facility will primarily build tugs and supply boats for Pott's Offshore Marine

Services Division.

The report said the firm's Metal

Fabrication and Distribution Divi- sion plans to concentrate invest- ment primarily in marine-oriented businesses, with strongemphasis on marine services to the offshore pe- troleum industry.

As previously reported, Pott re- cently disposed of interest in the

Behm Companies of Osawatomie and Greeley, Kan., and Fab-Co.

Metals Ltd., Sarnia, Ontario.

The division earned $1,543,000 on sales of $34,889,000 last year, compared with earnings of $1,182,- 000 on sales of $28,038,000 in 1972.

NEW SKY CUMBER SYSTEMS

Savings are phenomenal when Sky Climber

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Rail or spurnwater riders move them horizontally.

With special accessories, the Sky Climber scaf- fold follows the contours of the hull or inclined interior surfaces, so all exposed surFaces are reached. Workers do a better job without stoop- ing, squatting, stretching, or climbing; because they can position themselves and their equip- ment exactly right.

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