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Larry Brown Named

VP-Operations For

Jacksonville Shipyards

Larry Brown

Arnold P. McIIwain, president of Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc.,

Florida, has announced the pro- motion of Larry Brown to the po- sition of vice president, opera- tions. Mr. Brown has been with

Jacksonville Shipyards since 1971 after retiring from the United

States Navy, having served as chief engineer of various vessels, as well as numerous assignments related to Naval shipyards and repair facilities.

Since coming to Jacksonville

Shipyards, he has been assigned to different divisions and has held positions as coordinator, machin- ery superintendent, and general yard superintendent.

Tidelands Limited Seeks

Title XI On Jackup Rig

To Cost $30.6 Million

Tidelands Limited IV, Houston, has applied for a Title XI guar- antee to aid in financing the con- struction of a jackup drilling rig.

The proposed builder, Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's Sparrows

Point, Md., yard, expects to com- plete the vessel in April 1982. The drilling barge will be used to drill for oil and gas in water up to 200 feet deep.

If approved, the guarantee will cover $24.5 million, or 75 percent of the vessel's $30.6-million esti- mated cost.

Report On Domestic

Offshore Oil Published

Record levels of U.S. coastal energy development will result from higher world petroleum prices, domestic deregulation and an ambitious offshore leasing program among other factors, ac- cording to the just published sec- ond edition of the special report by TransTech Co. (marine con- sultants) entitled Domestic Off- shore Petroleum—Prospects and

Opportunities for the 1980's. The report has four chapters begin- ning with analysis of U.S. oil and gas requirements through the decade, examination of the case for increased offshore explora- tory activity, projection of pro- duction levels by coast, and con- cluding with unit and dollar value growth forecasts of the main off- shore equipment markets.

Markets examined are well ma- terials, mobile drilling rigs, pro- 8 duction platforms, oil and gas marine pipelines, and transpor- tation. Forecasts are developed using historic industry operating patterns, the 5 Year OCS Leasing

Schedule, estimated levels of in- dustry capital spending allocated to offshore, and from considera- tion of physical conditions in the new lease areas. The transporta- tion market is segmented into anchor handling/supply vessels, fast crew/supply boats and heli- copters. A method of compara- tive economics is presented to enable evaluation of transporta- tion alternatives and to predict growth of competing modes.

The 12 figures and 34 tables in the report form a base of impor- tant, factual information on ma- jor segments of the multibillion- dollar U.S. offshore energy in- dustry. As a strategic planning and marketing tool, the report's emphasis is to present rationally developed levels of growth from which organizations providing products and/or services to the offshore petroleum industry can better develop specific opportu- nities.

For your free brochure de- scribing Domestic Offshore Pe- troleum—Prospects and Oppor- tunities for the 1980's in greater detail, write G.F. Uttmark, Trans-

Tech Company, Dept. MR., P.O.

Box 9, Elwyn, Pa. 19063.

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