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Zidell Awarded Big Repair

Job On Army Dredge 'Pacific'

Corps of Engineers dredge Pacific shown in drydock at

Zidell Marine Div., Portland, Ore. Nonstop dredging of highly erosive ash from Mt. St. Helens's eruption caused excessive wear in vessel's dredging pumps.

Mt. St. Helens added another victim to its long list of damaged capital equipment when the U.S. Corps of Engineers hopper dredge

Pacific entered a Zidell drydock recently far in advance of its regularly scheduled date for maintenance. The condition of the dredge's pumps, with their impellers virtu- ally worn out from dredging the highly erosive ash fallout, necessitated putting the job out for bid early. Zidell Marine Division,

Portland, Ore., was lowest of five bidders.

The repair contract, valued at approximately $465,000, calls for completion of all work 30 calendar days from start.

Silt from the Cowlitz and other rivers of the St. Helens watershed filled the Colum- bia River channel, reducing it to a depth of only 15 feet after the volcano's May erup- tion, closing the river to freighters of all description. The Pacific, among the first dredges on the scene, worked 24 hours a day for 15 straight days in the Corps' suc- cessful effort to restore navigation.

Will Kenney, contracting officer's repre- sentative, said the dredged material was at least three to four times more erosive than the material normally dredged from the Col- umbia. This, he said, was the prime reason for the 180-foot dredge coming in early for maintenance, and its requiring repair or re- placement of 63 items in five systems.

Among the larger jobs is replacement of steel plates in the hopper, in gate wells, and various partitions. The propeller blades, eight of them each weighing 269 pounds, will also be replaced.

Zapata Selling Four

Products Tankers To

Ogden For $89.5 Million

Zapata Corporation of Houston announced that an agreement has been signed for the sale of its four products tankers to a sub- sidiary of Ogden Corporation for $89.5 mil- lion. The amount includes $52.3 million cash and $37.2 million in assumption of debt.

Zapata said that its net gain after tax from the transaction would be approximately $13.7 million in the quarter ended March 31, 1981.

The sale is subject to certain regulatory clearances and approval by the boards of directors of both companies.

The four U.S.-flag, 35,000-dwt tankers in- volved in the transaction are the diesel- powered Zapata Courier, Zapata Patriot,

Zapata Ranger, and Zapata Rover, which transport bulk cargoes, including refined -^Write 106 on Reader Service Card petroleum products and crude oil. They were delivered by Todd's San Pedro yard in 1976- 77. The transaction will terminate Zapata's involvement in the bulk shipping business.

Thorell And Walker

Promoted At Todd

Los Angeles Division

Len Thorell has been promoted to assist- ant general manager, technical, and Earl

Walker is promoted to assistant general manager, operations, at Todd Pacific Ship- yards Corporation's Los Angeles Division.

Mr. Thorell will have management respon- sibility for the following disciplines: engi- neering, quality assurance/R&M, material control, purchasing, warehousing, new con- struction and repair estimating, and welding

Len Thorell Earl Walker engineering. Mr. Walker will assume broad overall responsibilities in the operations area of the division, including expanded production, planning and scheduling, plant maintenance, production department train- ing program, drydocks, and tests and trials. £

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