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Halter Marine Delivers Supply Boat 'Tara Alyene' To Briley Marine

Halter Marine, Inc., New Or- leans, La., has delivered the Tara

Alyene, a new supply boat, to her owners, Briley Marine of Lafay- ette, La.

The new vessel, built with the cooperation of Stewart & Steven- son Services, Inc., is 180 feet long, with a 38-foot beam and 14-foot draft. She can carry 3,600 cubic feet of mud in her four bulk mud tanks and 1,700 barrels of liquid mud in four liquid mud tanks.

The Tara Alyene has a speed of approximately 12 knots, and is driven by two GM16V149NA en- gines developing 900 hp each at 1,800 rpm. She swings two stain-

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For your next job, whatever the size, look to FMC. Demand the best. After all, we demand it of our- selves. Call or write Vice President of Sales, FMC Corporation, Marine and Rail Equipment Division, 4700 N.W. Front Avenue, Portland,

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Two 900-hp GM engines and a Murray & Tregurtha bowthruster enhance the Tara

Alyene's station-keeping capability. less steel 74-inch four-bladed pro- pellers turning through Twin Disc 540 reverse/reduction gears with a ratio of 6:1. Her station-keep- ing capability alongside offshore platforms is enhanced by a Mur- ray Tregurtha 400 bowthruster driven by a GM8V71, 375-hp die- sel engine.

Two GM8V71, 125-kw gener- ator sets provide electric power for auxiliary services. Bilge, bal- last, and fuel transfer pumps are

Aurora model 344; freshwater and sanitary water pressure sets are Barnes model 1400. The off- ship firefighting system is a Fee- con DM 750 turret-mounted noz- zle atop the pilothouse with a

Berkley-type "C" pump driven by the bowthruster engine.

Some of the pilothouse electron- ics include Two Decca RM916A radars, an ITT Decca Marine

STR-25 VHF/FM radiotelephone, a Simrad Loran C model LC123, and a Raytheon DE 726 depth sounder with a 7041 transducer.

She is outfitted with an HBL double wildcat anchor windlass working two 2,000-pound anchors with 1,800 feet of high-strength stud link chain.

The Tara Alyene is ABS classed

A-l, Maltese Cross, AMS full ocean towing, U.S. Coast Guard

Subchapter I, USCG NVC 1-78, and U.S. Public Health Approved.

She was built at Halter's Moss

Point (Miss.) Division, one of 10 shipyards owned and operated by the company in the Southeastern

United States.

Halter is one of the world's largest builders of support vessels for the offshore oil and gas in- dustry.

Brown & Root Announces

Three Management Changes

Joseph G. Munisteri William M. Rice Thomas D. Murphy -FMC

Thomas J. Feehan, president and chief executive officer of

Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, Tex- as, has announced three changes in the company's executive man- agement. Brown & Root, one of the world's largest engineering- construction firms, is a Hallibur- ton Company subsidiary.

Joseph G. Munisteri, group vice president, director, and member of the operating committee, has assumed responsibilities in corpo- rate development and will report directly to the senior executive vice president, W.B. Pieper.

William M. Rice, group vice president, will be responsible for activities of the power group, and has been elected to the Brown &

Root board of directors and the operating committee.

Thomas D. Murphy, vice presi- dent, assumes responsibility for management of the Western Hem- isphere marine construction divi- sion's Greens Bayou and Harbor

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