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Jotun officials at recent seminar in New York were (L to R): Nicholas J. Scotland, vice president, Jotun-Baltimore Copper Paint Company; Gary W. Winegardner, pres- ident, Jotun-Baltimore; Torstein Bryn, public relations/marketing manager, Jotun

Marine Coatings, Norway; and Terje Lunde, marketing manager, Jotun-Baltimore.

Jotun Hosts Technical Seminar

For New York-Based Shipowners

Jotun Marine Coatings and

Jotun-Baltimore Copper Paint

Company recently hosted a recep- tion and technical seminar at the

Whitehall Club for shipowners and operators in the New York

City area. Torstein Bryn, public relations/marketing manager for

Jotun Marine Coatings, Sande- fjord, Norway, described his com- pany's philosophy regarding the financial aspects in the choice be- tween traditional and sophisti- cated antifouling coating systems.

Using figures representative of a 280,000-dwt turbine tanker, Mr.

Bryn described Jotun's exten- sive research and experience in coatings technology, which show that considerable savings can be achieved from an investment in a sophisticated hull coating system such as Jotun's Takata LLL organo-tin, acrylcopolymer self- polishing antifouling or its Sea- master chlorinated rubber / cu- prous oxide system developed es- pecially for reactivation.

Traditionally, the main object of using antifouling systems on ships has been to keep their bot- toms free from fouling. Relatively low speeds and reasonable bunker prices made it necessary to con- sider only the rather extensive roughness created by organisms that could under bad conditions settle on the underwater hull, thus reducing speed significantly.

In the mid-seventies, however, a new concept was brought up, namely the requirement for keep- ing the ships' bottoms not only fouling-free, but also as smooth as possible in order to reduce skin friction to the lowest possible lev- el, thereby enabling the owners to economize substantially on fuel consumption. This is, of course, due to the fact that on larger vessels 80 percent of the resist- ance to movement through water is due to skin friction.

Jotun Marine Coatings, as well as other paint manufacturers and research institutions, several years ago began to look more thoroughly into what could be done to reduce skin friction. Jo- tun's answer is the Seamaster and Takata LLL systems which, according to Mr. Bryn, have now been thoroughly tested over a number of years in cooperation with shipowners, and Jotun has been able to collect performance data that clearly prove the great savings in fuel consumption.

A./S Jotungruppen, more com- monly known as Jotun, is an in- ternational group of companies with worldwide activities. Its main products are marine coat- ing systems and coatings for cor- rosion protection in the oil and chemical industries; domestic and industrial paints, polyester plas- tics, polyurethane foams, and fiberglass-reinforced polyester pipes and tanks.

Belcher Spill Conference

Featured Prevention,

Control, And Cleanup

An international oil spill con- ference attracted more than 300 pollution control experts from ma- jor oil companies, conservation organizations, and government re- sponse teams to Lake Buena Vista,

Fla., recently. The 7th Annual

Spillage Control Conference &

Workshops sponsored by Belcher

Oil Company of Miami featured participatory exercises in the pre- vention, control, and cleanup of hazardous and toxic materials spills. Wildlife rescue and deploy- ment of the latest containment and cleaning equipment were dem- onstrated during the conference.

In a dramatic exercise, a sim- ulated oil spill was staged in the

Cypress Gardens Aquarama Pool.

For the first time, participants viewed a spill and cleanup from under water, through the pool's famous picture windows. "Our oil spill exercise demonstrated gov- ernment and industry cooperation during pollution catastrophies that affect everyone," said con- ference director Roger Pynn of

Belcher Oil. "The exercise posed the realities of a spill, giving par- ticipants a heightened awareness of their responsibilities in preven- tion and cleanup."

The conference was completely underwritten as a public service by Belcher Oil, a unit of The

Coastal Corporation, Houston. Co- sponsors were the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency, the

U.S. Coast Guard, the Florida De- partment of Natural Resources, and the Florida Spillage Control

Association.

Among leading authorities who addressed the conference were

DeVan L. Shumway, editor and publisher of The Oil Daily, and a recognized energy authority; Rear

Adm. Wavne E. Caldwell, Chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Ma- rine Environment and Systems; and Alice B. Berkner, executive director of the International Bird

Rescue Research Center, Berke- ley, Calif., and one of the world's foremost authorities on saving oiled wildlife.

Mr. Shumway predicted that oil prices will rise moderately

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Long Beach-L.A. ASNE Meeting

Hears Talk On Diego Garcia

The Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Sec- tion of The American Society of Naval En- gineers held its first meeting of the 1980-81 year at the Officers Club of the Los Alamitos

Armed Forces Reserve Center.

Chairman J.R. (Bob) Malone announced — —j- j-i- - officers and then asked program chairman

Erickson to take over with the evening's activity. The announced topic for the meet- ing was "Update on Diego Garcia Facilities," by Lt. Michael F. Casey, CEC, USN, Assist- ant Officer in Charge of Construction for the

Long Beach area. Lieutenant Casey has had two tours of duty on Diego Garcia, the last of which was as Officer in Charge of the 30th Naval Pnnstmptinn Ren-imont T"lo + r,,-.V,

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