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D.E. Dolak Named Finance & Accounting Director For

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David E. Dolak Rockwell International has ap- pointed David E. Dolak director, finance & accounting, for the

Flow Control Division. The an- nouncement was made by D.J.

Brannon, division controller, who noted that Mr. Dolak will be re- sponsible for all division account- ing operations, including financial analysis, budgeting, cost and gen- eral accounting. In addition, he will be responsible for preparation of the annual operating plan, the financial aspects of the strategic business plan, and the consolida- tion and financial reporting of the division's seven manufacturing lo- cations.

Mr. Dolak joined Rockwell In- ternational in 1974 as a senior financial analyst, and held in- creasingly responsible positions, including that of controller for the Raleigh, N.C., facility. He was manager, financial analysis & planning, for division headquar- ters since 1977.

MESCO Awarded Three

Contracts To Build

Offshore Equipment

Mitsui Engineering & Ship- building Company, Ltd. (MESCO) was recently awarded orders for a semisubmersible type and a jackup type offshore oil drilling rig, as well as a semisubmersible offshore accommodation platform.

The order for the semisubmers- ible oil drilling rig was received, with the assistance of Mitsui &

Company, Ltd., from Petroleo

Brasileiro S.A. of Brazil. This is a modified version, with MESCO- designed improvements, of the

Aker H-3 type semisubmersible rigs Borgila Dolphin and Dan

Queen, built in 1967 and 1977 re- spectively, under a technical li- cense from Aker of Norway. It is the seventh semisubmersible offshore structure to be built by

Mitsui.

The jackup type rig, Trident 8, was ordered jointly from MESCO,

Mitsui Ocean Development and

Engineering Co., Ltd. (MODEC), and Toyo Menka Kaisha, Ltd. by

Triton Industry of Panama, an affiliate of Forex Neptune of

France. It is basically similar in design to the jackup type rig

Trident 6 ordered early this year by the same owner, and modified for shallow-water use.

The semisubmersible offshore accommodation platform, to be constructed for Einar Rasmussen of Norway, will be of the pace- setter type developed by Friede and Goldman, Ltd. to serve as a floating hotel for people engaged in offshore work for a long period.

Equipped with 100-ton and 40-ton cranes, it will also have offshore servicing functions.

This is the first order in the world for this kind of platform since the accident of a similar off- shore accommodation platform in the North Sea last March. Taking into account the lessons learned from the disaster, it is of high- grade design and specifications in anticipation of more stringent

MARINE DIVISION rules likely to be prescribed by ship classification societies. Also taken into consideration is the fact that it will be used mostly in the North Sea and is to be used by a Scandinavian owner. The platform will accommodate about 600 people.

The drilling rigs will be classed by the American Bureau of Ship- ping, the accommodation plat- form by Det norske Veritas.

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