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Rhine-Schelde-Verolme

Awarded Contract To

Build Drilling Rig

The Offshore Division of Rhine-

Schelde-Verolme, engineers and shipbuilders of Rotterdam, the

Netherlands, have received an or- der for the delivery of a jackup- type drilling rig of the Levings- ton III class with a total value of about 100 million guilders.

The contract was concluded with Centromor on the order of

Petrobaltic, a combined organiza- tion of Poland, USSR and East

Germany, which is engaged in the search for oil in the Baltic Sea.

The jackup-type rig has a length of approximately 63 meters (about 207 feet), is 54 meters wide (177 feet), and 6.7 meters high (22 feet). The three legs have a length of 127 meters (417 feet). The rig is suitable to undertake drilling activities in a water depth of 91 meters (299 feet).

PSI Completes Total

Package Concept With

Todd 'Apache' Contract

Propulsion Systems, Inc. of

Kent, Wash., was recently award- ed a contract by Todd Shipyards,

Galveston Division, to supply the controls package for Santa Fe

International's pipelaying vessel "Apache." The controls package is in addition to the twin con- trollable-pitch propellers, side

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The Apache is a new genera- tion of special-purpose ships de- signed to utilize a computer- controlled automatic station-keep- ing system. This system allows complete, commanding control of the vessel's propulsive and steer- ing equipment to keep the ship within feet of its assigned posi- tion.

One of the contributing factors to this high degree of accuracy is the function of the PSI control system. It will interface with and operate the main propulsion, thruster, and steering gear pack- age in conjunction with the auto- matic station-keeping system.

The equipment will be con- structed at PSI's Kent facility, with delivery expected in the fourth quarter of 1978.

Propulsion Systems, Inc. is a marine systems engineering and manufacturing firm. The concern designs, manufactures and/or supplies propulsion systems in- cluding prime movers, control- lable-pitch propellers, steerable and tunnel thrusters, rotary vane steering gear, control systems, and instrumentation for the ma- rine industry.

M. Akizawa Named

General Manager

NKK New York

Masayoshi Akizawa has been appointed NKK (Nippon Kokan)

New York general manager, suc- ceeding Takeo Arakawa who is returning to Tokyo as a senior general manager at the company's head office.

Masayoshi Akizawa

Mr. Akizawa was formerly

NKK New York assistant general manager.

NKK is Japan's number two steel producer and only integrated steelmaker/engineer-constructor/ shipbuilder. The company's fiscal 1977 sales (April 1, 1976 to

March 31, 1977) were $4.3 billion.

Mr. Akizawa joined NKK's

Shipbuilding Division in 1951, upon graduation from Keio Uni- versity, Tokyo. He served in key positions within the company's

Shipbuilding and Heavy Indus- tries Divisions, and in 1973 was named general manager of the

General Affairs Department of

NKK's Tsu Shipyard. He assumed his New York assignment in No- vember 1975. 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News