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TRM-115 SSB radio, an SRD Mod- el CLX Loran, and a Datamarine

Model 2650 depth finder.

The PBR-216 is the first of six sister vessels being built for the same owner. Service Machine will deliver the remaining five during 1980.

The second recent delivery was the tugboat Stone Mountain, built for Black Towing Company of

Morgan City. The 75-foot vessel has a free-running speed of about 12 knots, provided by twin GM- 16V-92N diesels driving 64-inch bronze propellers supplied by Rice

Propellers through Twin Disc 5:1 reduction gearing.

A Smatco towing/anchor han- dling winch provides a line pull of 50,000 pounds. Skipper, Inc. provided the hydraulic steering units, two air compressors came from Quincy, and the Barnes bilge/ballast/fire pump and the sanitary and potable water pres- sure sets were supplied by Pump

Systems, Inc.

Electronic gear in the Stone

Mountain include Sitex radar,

Drake SSB radio, two Motorola

VHF radios, Datamarine depth finder, and Texas Instrument computer-controlled Loran.

Merit Drilling Seeks

Title XI For Drill Barge

Costing $10.5 Million

Merit Three Drilling, Ltd., a subsidiary of Merit Drilling of

Houston, has applied to MarAd for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a shallow-water drill barge. Red

Fox Industries, New Iberia, La., is the proposed builder.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover $7,875,000, or 75 percent of the total actual cost of $10,500,000.

Grand Bassa Tankers

Names Naval Architect

Robert C. Morrell has become affiliated with Grand Bassa Tank- ers, Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., as naval architect.

For the past 32 years, Mr. Mor- rell has been a consulting naval architect in New York City. He is a naval architecture graduate of The University of Michigan.

Grand Bassa is the owner of 10 seagoing tankers totaling about 1,200,000 deadweight tons.

Promotions And

Retirements At

El Paso LNG Company

The El Paso Company of Hous- ton, Texas, has announced that

George D. Carameros Jr., chair- man, and Barry Hunsaker, presi- dent of El Paso LNG Company, a subsidiary, have elected to take early retirement to pursue other interests in the energy field. They will continue to be available as

May 1, 1980 required in a consulting capacity for a period of time after their retirement. Mr. Carameros and

Mr. Hunsaker each have been em- ployed by El Paso for over 32 years, and have been with the LNG subsidiary from its inception.

Travis H. Petty, chairman of

The El Paso Company, will also become chairman and president of

El Paso LNG Company. Virgil R.

Cowart and Martin R. Engler Jr. were named executive vice presi- dents of this subsidiary, and will report to Mr. Petty.

Mr. Cowart, who is based in

Paris, France, joined El Paso in 1953. He was part of the original complement of El Paso's French subsidiary formed in 1960, and was named managing director of that subsidiary in 1965. Mr.

Cowart has also been with the

LNG subsidiary since its incep- tion, and became a vice president in 1975, and in 1977 was named a senior vice president, his most recent position.

Mr. Engler joined El Paso LNG

Company as a vice president in 1976, and was named a senior vice president in 1978. Prior to joining

El Paso, he had spent 25 years with San Diego Gas and Electric

Company, where he initiated San

Diego's entry into the LNG busi- ness in 1964. His last position with that company was executive vice president.

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