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IMODCO Establishes

Houston, Texas Office —M.D. Jackson Named

IMODCO, pioneer company in the development of offshore sin- gle-point mooring (SPM) termi- nals, announces the formation of a regional marketing office in

Houston, Texas. The facility is located at 2300 West Loop South,

Suite 290, in the Litwin Building.

Michael D. Jackson has been appointed to the position of re- gional manager of marketing, southern United States, and will direct the efforts of this office toward providing local attention to the increasing number of in- quiries from this and other areas of the Gulf Coast concerning sin- gle-point mooring systems.

According to Alfred W. All- chorn, senior vice president of marketing, the increasing devel- opment of offshore petroleum and the subsequent escalation in re- quirements for SPM systems to provide petroleum storage and transfer facilities requires on-the- spot representation.

A native Texan, Mr. Jackson is well acquainted with the ma- rine and offshore industry. He has most recently been associated with ETA Engineers, Inc., Hous- ton, as project coordinator, and with Marathon Marine Engineer- ing Co., Houston, as marine en- gineer. Earlier, he served in the

Marine Department of Texaco Oil

Corporation.

Michael D. Jackson

Mr. Jackson attended Texas

A & M University during 1968-69, and later received Congressional appointment to the United States

Merchant Marine Academy, Kings

Point, N.Y., where he was gradu- ated in 1973. He also performed postgraduate studies in engineer- ing at the University of Houston, and has been a lecturer/instructor in naval architecture at Texas

A & M University Maritime Acad- emy, Galveston, Texas, since 1975.

IMODCO, a division of Amtel,

Inc., has been a pioneer in the single-point mooring terminal field since 1958, having constructed and installed more than 60 ter- minals around the world. With its world headquarters located in

Los Angeles, Calif., IMODCO also maintains a London, England, of- fice to serve the European and

Middle East area.

Apollo Chemical Names

J. Richard Relick VP

J. Richard Relick has been named vice president of opera- tions for Apollo Chemical Corp.

The announcement was made by

Dr. Ira Kukin, president of the company.

Mr. Relick has had over 20 years' experience in corporate planning, management and over- seas marketing. Prior to joining

Apollo, he was director of Ven- tron International, Brussels, Bel- gium, where he managed the firm's overseas operations. He also has served as president of the Malrex Chemical Company,

Maiden, Mass.

He is a graduate of Dickinson

College and Northeastern Uni- versity. He is a member of the

American Chamber of Commerce, the American Businessmen's Club of Brussels, the Technical Asso- ciation of the Pulp and Paper

Industry, the American Associa- tion of Industrial Colorists and

Chemists, and the Society of

Plastic Engineers.

Apollo Chemical Corp., head- quartered in Whippany, N.J., is one of the leading suppliers of chemical treatment programs to industry, with offices throughout the world.

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