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Newpark Shipbuilding

Opens Gas-Freeing

Facility In Houston

Newpark Shipbuilding & Re- pair, Inc. has opened a $2-million barge-cleaning and gas-freeing fa- cility on the Houston Ship Chan- nel, capable of providing a wide range of vessel-cleaning services with extensive environmental safeguards.

John W. Sansing, president of

Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair, said the facility represents the most advanced state-of-the-art, both for cleaning and ensuring maximum environmental protec- tion. He said the plant complies fully with all existing safety and environmental regulatory stand- ards.

The facility is located on Brady

Island in the Houston Ship Chan- nel, about one mile below the turning basin in the Port of

Houston, Texas.

The plant is basically a dock- side facility where units to be gas-freed are brought alongside and cleaned by any of several appropriate methods.

In addition, it allows Newpark

Ship with its five haul-out facili- ties to provide a full range of services to its customers. "D" Ring Stacking Peg Midloc

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New Construction Vessel Repair

One of the facility's environ- mental safeguards provides for equipping all storage vessels con- taining light hydrocarbons capa- ble of escaping with overhead condensers so that vapors are not released in the atmosphere.

Lighter, unstable hydrocarbons are burned in a smokeless flare.

Mr. Sansing said water for rinsing wifl be totally purified be- fore being discharged or recycled.

Newpark Ship is a wholly owned subsidiary of Newpark Resources,

Inc., an energy services company listed on the New York Stock Ex- change.

J. Ray McDermott & Co.

Building Two 6,000-HP

Oceangoing Tugs

Louisiana Marine Tugs Corpo- ration, 1125 First Avenue (P.O.

Box 624) Harvey, La., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two 6,000-horsepower oceangoing tugs.

The applicant owns and oper- ates vessels used primarily in the offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico. The new barges, to be named LAMMCO IV and LAMM-

CO VI, are also designed to be used in more hostile environ- ments, such as off the East Coast and Alaska. In addition to the off- shore oil industry, the vessels will be used in regular ocean towing, the applicant indicated.

J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc.,

New Orleans, La., was awarded the contract to construct the two vessels.

The Title XI guarantee would be for approximately $4,870,383, which represents 87V<> percent of the estimated actual cost of the vessels.

Heavy Plate Punching

Brochure Available

From W.A. Whitney

W. A. Whitney Corp., Rock- ford, 111., an Esterline Company (NYSE), a leading heavy-plate fabricating machinery manufac- turer, recently released a new brochure on their HEVI-PIate

Duplicators.

The new brochure has been ex- panded to include the new Model 7130-60 Duplicator. This new 100- ton heavy-plate duplicating press features a SO^-inch throat, and has the capacity to fabricate plates from 3/16-inch to 1%-inch thick and up to 30 inches wide by 60 inches long. Holes up to 1*4- inch diameter can be punched.

This equipment is ideal for mis- cellaneous plate fabrication. Cost- ly layouts or cardboard templates used in conventional fabrication of plate parts are not required.

For your free copy of this bro- chure, write to James J. Henry,

W.A. Whitney Corp., 682 South

Race Street, Rockford, 111. 61105. 36 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News