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Perry Receives Order

From S & H Diving Corp.

Perry Oceanographies, Inc.,

Riviera Beach, Fla., will provide complete outfitting for shallow and deepwater diving and un- manned vehicle services to S & H

Diving Corp., Morgan City, La., under a new leasing agreement.

The equipment lease was ar- ranged by Underwater Equipment

Leasing, Inc. of Riviera Beach, a recently formed Perry associate company.

Conoco Plans Tension

Leg Platform For N. Sea

Depths To 2,000 Feet

Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas, recently announced plans for a new type of drilling and produc- tion platform capable of operat- ing in 2,000-foot waters, twice as deep as the previous record.

The company expects the new platform to be operating in the

North Sea in four years. The first unit could cost about $1.1 billion.

Officials said the "tension leg platform" will be a floating plat- form firmly anchored to flexible joints on the seafloor by four bun- dles of three 9-inch-diameter steel tubes with 3-inch-thick walls.

The flexible joints and tubular lines—the tension legs—eliminate the need to solve the expensive engineering problem of inflexible legs currently unavailable in long- er lengths than 1,000 feet.

Company representatives re- port technology already has been developed for driving the neces- sary piling in the deepwater sea- floor to anchor the flexible joints.

One advantage of the tension platform is stability. The 1,000 tons of tension on the tubes will eliminate the vertical bobbing of floating platforms, although there can be horizontal shifting of up to 79 feet.

The plan calls for 32 well slots on a floating platform with dis- placement weight of 56,970 tons, more than twice the size of large floating rigs already operating. "This is the first application of tension leg concept anywhere in the world," said Jack Marshall,

Conoco's vice president of Inter- national Production. "It's a proj- ect the whole industry will want to watch."

Mr. Marshall said the first ten- sion leg platform will be built at an estimated cost of $1.1 billion in the Hutton Field of the North

Sea, 90 miles northeast of the

Shetland Islands, in about 485 feet of water.

J.J. Krebs To Head

Board Of Commissioners

At Port Of New Orleans

Joseph J. Krebs Jr. has been elected to serve as president of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (La.) for 1980. He succeeds Roy J. Gross, who served as the Board's first president from St. Bernard Par- ish.

The Board also elected Leander

N. Bubrig to the office of vice president, and J.W. Clark, secre- tary-treasurer. Mr. Krebs and Mr.

Bubrig are Jefferson Parish ap- pointees on the Dock Board.

Mr. Krebs was appointed to the

Board of Commissioners on No- vember 22, 1976, and served as vice president during 1979. A na- tive of New Orleans, he is presi- dent of J.J. Krebs & Sons Inc.,

Civil Engineers and Land Sur- veyors.

Following the election of offi- cers, the Board confirmed the con- tinued service of Edward S. Reed in the position of executive port director-general manager.

Also confirmed by unanimous

Board action were the following appointments: assistant secre- tary, Lydia Joyce M. Arnold; as- sistant treasurer, William H. Ur- ban Jr.; recording secretary,

Edith B. Bowden; general coun- sel, Louis B. Claverie; and public relations counsel, Kenneth H.

Gormin.

Mr. Krebs appointed a Budget

Committee of the following mem- bers: Roy Gross, chairman; John

Meghrian and Lee Bubrig, mem- bers.

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