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Davie Will Build Two

Drill Rigs At Total

Cost Of $70 Million

Davie Shipbuilding Limited of

Lauzon, Quebec, and Global Ma- rine Drilling Company of Hous- ton have signed a letter of intent for the construction of two off- shore, jackup drilling platforms valued at $35 million each for de- livery in late 1981 and mid-82.

These rigs are the eighth and ninth obtained by Davie since

June 1978, when it signed a con- tract with Global for its first unit. Seven rigs have been con- tracted for with Global, one with

Salen Offshore, and one with Pe- trobras of Brazil.

Two rigs were delivered to Glo- bal in 1979 and are at work in the Gulf of Mexico. Three rigs will be delivered this year, in- cluding one for Salen and two for

Global. Three rigs will also be de- livered in 1981, two to Global and one to Petrobras, while the ninth rig will be completed in 1982 for

Global. All of these rigs are of

Marathon LeTourneau design.

All of these contracts were made possible through the sup- port of the Canadian Govern- ment's Shipbuilding Assistance

When bigger barges are built,

Wiley will build them.

A case in point: Pittston Marine's new deck, with drive engines in an all- tank barge, a floating oil field over weather enclosure. A recessed house 315 feet long was recently built by for quarters and galley is heated and

Wiley. Designed for manned air-conditioned coastwise service or unmanned ocean The "Rockland" is the latest in service, the "Rockland" carries up to the Wiley built deck, tank, dump 70,000 barrels of Grade A petroleum crane and coal barges; clamshell products and lower, with dredges; tugs and towboats; tankers, approximately 3.4 miles of heating passenger and fishing vessels. With coils for hot oil. Wiley's broad marine capabilities,

Deep well pumps are on the we can custom-build to your specifications.

Wiley's facilities are located in

Port Deposit, Maryland.

For more information, contact:

UMum

A Unit of AMCA International Corporation

P.O. Box 97

Port Deposit, Maryland 21904 U.S.A. (301)378-4111

Telex: 90-8232

Program, Export-Development

Corporation financing, and the Ex- port Assistance Program of the

Societe de Developpement Indus- triel du Quebec.

With this latest contract, Davie now has a total orderbook of ap- proximately $240 million, includ- ing a 11,000-dwt tanker for its own fleet, a 400-foot by 100-foot arctic barge for Cominco, and miscellaneous orders for a wide range of steel products.

Lamparelli Named To

Bethlehem's New York

Repair Sales Staff

Nicholas C. Lamparelli has been promoted to salesman in Bethle- hem Steel Corporation's ship re- pair sales office in New York. The announcement was made by Da- vid H. Klinges, vice president in charge of shipbuilding. Mr. Lam parelli is advancing from senior ship superintendent at Bethle- hem's shipyard in Hoboken, N.J.

Mr. Lamparelli was graduated from the Maine Maritime Acad- emy in 1973 and joined Bethle- hem as a member of that year's

Loop course, which is a manage- ment training program for college graduates. In 1974 he was pro- moted to ship superintendent at the Hoboken yard and three years later became senior ship super- intendent.

New Pall Filter Assembly

Is Bi-Directional—

Literature Available

Pall Industrial Hydraulics Cor- poration has introduced the new

Biflow filter assembly, a bi-direc- tional filter in a single housing.

It provides continuous filtration with either direction of flow through the filter. This new filter has been designed for use in open- loop hydraulic systems and in closed-loop, reversible hydrostatic transmissions to prevent the cir- culation of dirt.

The single compact housing con- tains four dual-operating, spring- loaded, coaxial poppet valves.

Whatever the direction of flow through the filter assembly, flow through the element is always outside-to-inside, providing full filtered flow at system pressure.

A single Biflow filter thus can replace two filter assemblies, each with reverse flow valve, or a sin- gle filter assembly with four ex- ternal check valves. The Biflow filter accepts Pall's Deltadyne® differential pressure measuring device that signals when the ele- ment needs to be changed.

The Biflow filter is available with a flow capacity of 50 gpm, with one-inch nominal ports and

SAE four-bolt, split-flange fit- tings.

For further information write to Gerald Palmer, Dept. MR, Pall

Corporation, Glen Cove, N.Y. 11542. 28 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News