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Acadian Marine

Names Vorenkamp

Vice Pres.-Operations will provide the project manager and additional supervisory personnel.

Headquarters of the management team will be the offices of Taylor-

Woodrow Construction in Southall.

Signal Oil and Gas is operator for the Halibut Group, which includes

Champlin Petroleum Co., (U.K.),

Santa Fe Minerals (U.K.) Inc.,

United Canso Oil and Gas (U.K.)

Ltd., Tricentrol North Sea Ltd., and

Charterhouse Securities Ltd.

U.S. Lines Names

Veltre Coordinator

Eastern Division

Joseph M. Veltre has been ap- pointed Eastern Division Coordi- nator of United States Lines, ac- cording to an announcement by

William J. Keely, vice president-

Eastern Division.

In his new post, Mr. Veltre will organize and operate a Divisional

Information and Coordination Cen- ter that will assist Mr. Keely in effectively coordinating sales, con- tainer, terminal and vessel activi- ties in the division.

Mr. Veltre, who joined the com- pany in 1970, has been manager of corporate marketing. Previous- ly, he held management positions with American Export Isbrandtsen

Lines.

Steffan B. Vorenkamp

Steffan (Steve) B. Vorenkamp has been named vice president-op- erations of Acadian Marine Serv- ice, Inc., New Orleans, La.

Active in various aspects of the marine industry since 1941, Mr.

Vorenkamp has served as opera- tions manager for Santa Fe Inter- national Corp., vice president and general manager for Halter Marine

Services, Inc., and marine super- intendent and principal drill rig mover for Ocean Drilling and Ex- ploration Co. (ODECO). He has al- so served as an independent consultant on offshore supply boat construction methods.

Mr. Vorenkamp studied mechani- cal engineering at the University of California-Berkeley, and has completed several specialized ma- rine and oil industry schools. He is the author of "The Finer Points of Submersible Barge Moving."

His brother, Capt. Rudy Voren- kamp, is executive vice president of Acadian Marine Service, an in- ternational marine transportation company serving the oil field and construction industries.

Signal Oil Selects

Taywood-Santa Fe For

North Sea Drilling

Signal Oil and Gas Co., Ltd. has selected Taywood-Santa Fe as proj- ect manager for the initial drilling and production facilities in Thistle

Field in the North Sea.

Taywood-Santa Fe is a joint ven- ture formed by Taylor Woodrow

Construction Ltd. of Southall, Mid- dlesex, England, together with a sub- sidiary of Santa Fe International

Corporation, Orange, Calif.

Taywood-Santa, Fe will provide procurement services and will co- ordinate the engineering, fabrication and installation of a drilling and production platform in Block 211/18 in the U.K. Sector.

The platform, designed to handle production of 200,000 barrels a day, is planned for installation in approx- imately 530 feet of water during the 1976 construction season.

Thistle Field, 100 miles northeast of the Shetland Islands, is the north- ernmost field yet discovered in the

North Sea. It is scheduled to begin commercial production in 1977.

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