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Lockheed Receives Navy

Contract For $38.2 Million

Lockheed Shipbuilding and

Construction Company, Seattle,

Wash., is being awarded a $38,- 293,411 negotiated cost-plus-fixed- fee contract for advance procure- ment of equipment, materials and commodities for the LSD-41, in- cluding advance engineering and program support activities. The

Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity. (N000- 24-80-C-2080)

Swedish Shipbuilders

Assn Report For 1979

The Swedish Shipbuilders As- sociation has recently reported that in 1979 Swedish shipyards launched 37 vessels with an ag- gregate 0.5-million gross tons. Ad- ditionally, 44 vessels totaling 0.6 million gross tons, with a value of US$747 million (Kr.3.1 billion), were completed. Thirteen of the completed vessels totaling 0.3 mil- lion gross tons, and valued at

Kr.1.8 billion, were for export.

Orderbooks at the end of 1979 stood at 58 ships aggregating 1 million gross tons, or roughly 4 percent of the total orders on hand at the world's shipyards.

The value of Swedish yards order- books, including alternative pro- duction, was Kr.7.7 billion, of which Kr.2.0 billion will be for export.

Among the 32 new contracts, totaling 0.3 million gross tons, signed in 1979 are six tankers, five car and passenger ferries, four chemical carriers, four sup- ply ships, and two car carriers.

McDermott Unit Names

Five New Vice Presidents

Robert K. Richie, president and chief operating officer of the Mc-

Dermott Operating Unit of J. Ray

McDermott & Co., Inc., announced that five new vice presidents have been named in the Unit.

R.V. Joffrion has been named vice president and general man- ager, Marine Pipeline and Harvey

Fabrication Divisions, McDermott

Operating Unit. Mr. Joffrion joined the company in 1961 as a scheduling engineer. He became supervising project engineer in 1970 and division manager of the

Harvey Fabrication Division in 1972. Since 1974, he has been sen- ior division manager of the Har- vey Fabrication and Marine Pipe- line Divisions.

W.D. Howell has been named vice president and general man- ager, West Africa Area, Oceanic

Contractors, Inc. Mr. Howell joined the company in 1971 as a field engineer. He became the manager of the marine pipeline operations in the North Sea branch of Oceanic Contractors in 1977 and manager of the West

Africa area in 1978, a position he has held since then.

C.W. Dyerson has been named vice president and general man- ager, Fabrication Divisions, Mc-

Dermott Operating Unit. Mr.

Dyerson joined the McDermott

Fabricators Division in Morgan

City, La., in 1962 as an engineer, became senior division engineer in 1968, and division chief engi- neer in 1972. He was division manager, McDermott Offshore Di- vision, from 1973 to 1978, when he became division manager of

McDermott Fabricators.

W.H. Fraser has been named vice president and general man- ager, McDermott Engineering-

London, Oceanic Contractors, Inc.

Mr. Fraser joined the Oceanic En- gineering Services Group in Lon- don in 1978 as senior division manager and has held that posi- tion until his present appointment.

L.E. Walker has been named vice president and general man- ager, South East Asia Operations,

Oceanic Contractors, Inc. Mr.

Walker joined the company as a field engineer in 1968, and has held engineering positions with

Oceanic Contractors in Singapore, the Middle East and Southeast

Asia. He became manager of off- shore operations for McDermott

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