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Santa Fe International

Appoints Charles Ball

Charles R. Ball Jr.

Santa Fe International Corpo- ration, Orange, Calif., has an- nounced the appointment of

Charles R. Ball Jr. as senior vice president-administration.

Mr. Ball has been assigned to

Santa Fe's corporate headquar- ters in Orange since July 1976, after completing more than 12 years in the company's foreign drilling operations.

As drilling division regional manager in London from 1972 to 1976, he was responsible for co- ordinating the company's activ- ities in the North Sea, as well as managing its drilling opera- tions throughout Europe and

Africa. He headed the company's

Singapore office as Southeast

Asia regional manager in 1971-72.

Before joining Santa Fe in 1961, Mr. Ball held engineering positions with oil companies in

California, the Middle East and

South America. He was foreign coordinator for Richfield Oil Corp. before its merger into the pres- ent Atlantic Richfield Co.

Willamette Awarded $15 Million To Modernize

Alaska State Ferry

The State of Alaska has award- ed Willamette Iron & Steel Com- pany, Portland, Ore., a $15,228,- 500 contract to lengthen and mod- ernize the M/V Matanuska, an

Alaska state ferry.

Work will begin in October, with completion scheduled for

May 1978. WISCO will employ ap- proximately 350 shipyard work- ers for the job.

The 16-year-old Matanuska, a passenger/vehicle ferry that plies the Inland Passage, will be "jumboized" to 408 feet from its present 352-foot length. This will involve cutting the ship in two sections and adding a new 56-foot midbody. The midbody will be built in part by FMC Corp., Port- land.

Other work to be done includes installation of new staterooms, crew's quarters, deckhouses, din- ing and recreation areas, funnel, masts, and elevators. A new so- larium will be added to the aft end of the bridge deck.

Approximately one month will be spent in drydock while section- ing and rejoining takes place.

Further modernization and refur- bishing will be done at WISCO's dock on N.W. Front Avenue.

This is the second such jumbo- izing job done by WISCO for the

State of Alaska. In 1972, the firm did similar work on another Alas- ka ferry, the Malaspina.

The Matanuska will be the most costly single ship lengthening and modernization job done in Port- land area shipyards.

MSB Estimating

Foreign Cost Of Ro/Ro

And LASH Vessels

The Maritime Subsidy Board has authorized publication in the

Federal Register of a notice of intent to compute the estimated foreign cost of the construction of either one 19,534-dwt roll-on/ roll-off (ro/ro) vessel or one 38,500-dwt lighter-aboard-ship (LASH) vessel. The computations are being made in connection with an application for construc- tion-differential subsidy submit- ted by Waterman Steamship Cor- poration (and noted in the MarAd

Press Book on July 8, 1977).

Parties having an interest in the computations may file written statements by the close of business on September 30, 1977, with the

Secretary, MSB, Room 3099-B,

Department of Commerce, Wash- ington, D.C. 20230. « % ' V

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