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Jerry Van Norman

Named VP At ETA—

Office Opened In Oslo

Engineering Technology Ana- lysts, Inc. (ETA), Houston, Texas, has announced the promotion of

Jerry L. Van Norman to vice presi- dent of systems engineering. For- merly a managing engineer with

ETA, Mr. Van Norman supervises the international activities in the mechanical, electrical, and equip- ment design for ETA's range of mobile offshore drilling and pipe- laying vessel designs. 'In addition, he supervises ETA's piping design and piping flexibility analysis for refineries, gas compressor stations, and oil and gas production systems.

ETA is involved in the design and analysis of offshore structures, marine pipelaying, and pipe stress analysis.

Prior to joining ETA in 1970,

Mr. Van Norman spent two years as an associate for Theodore Barry and Associates, a Los Angeles management consulting firm. He specialized in the development of computer-based management in- formation systems and the applica- tion of computer techniques to business problems. Mr. Van Nor- man has also served as production supervisor, systems engineer, and project engineer for the General

Electric 'Company, where he gained extensive experience in facilities planning and manufacturing engi- neering.

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Jerry L. Van Norman

Mr. Van Norman received his

B.S. degree in industrial engineer- ing and his M.S. degree in opera- tions research from Arizona State

University. He is a registered pro- fessional engineer in the state of

Texas and is a member of the

Houston Society of Management

Consultants, the Texas Society of

Professional Engineers, and the

National Society of Professional

Engineers:

ETA has also expanded its engi- neering design and consulting serv- ices on an international scale, and recently appointed a representative office in Oslo, Norway, to provide general professional engineering services to overseas clients. Repre- senting ETA is Ingenior Per O.

Kopaas of Kopaas Shipping Agen- cy A/S, an engineer and naval architect with many years of ex- perience in the marine industry.

ETA has designed a new genera- tion of offshore mobile drilling units for service in 200- to 400-foot water depths in tihe U.S. Gulf Coast,

Southeast Asia, and the North Sea.

Through the setup of the Norwegi- an representative office, ETA and

Mr. Kopaas can provide closer liaison with Norwegian clients on complete design and analysis assignments on offshore drilling units, marine pipelaying, and pipe stress problems.

The Philadelphia

Maritime Exchange

Elects Directors

Seven directors whose terms were expiring were reelected to the board of The Philadelphia Mari- time Exchange, according to an announcement made at the conclu- sion of the 99th annual meeting, held iby the organization in Phila- delphia, Pa.

Reelected for three-year terms were: William T. DeWitt, execu- tive vice president, Lavino Ship- ping Co.; John J. Gibbons, presi- dent, Delaware River Terminal and

Stevedoring Co.; Maylin H. Greas- er, president, American Dredging

Co.; Lloyd E. Long, president,

Merchants Warehouse Co.; Fran- cis H. Muldoon, president, J.A. Mc-

Carthy, Inc. ; Samuel M. Schellen- ger, president,. Pilots' Ass'n for the

Bay & River Delaware, and Nor- man E. Walls, port captain, Sun

Transport, Inc. 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering Hews