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TANO Awarded $1.9-Million

Contract By BIW Yard

For Automation Systems

TANO Corporation of New Or- leans has signed a contract for $1,907,538 to provide sophisti- cated machinery plant automa- tion systems for two petroleum tankers being built at Bath Iron

Works in Bath, Maine. The ships are being built for Falcon I Sea

Transport Company of Houston, and when complete will be under long-term charter to the Military

Sealift Command of the U.S.

Navy.

The TANO system will provide extensive monitoring and control of the ships' propulsion, electri- cal generating machinery, and auxiliary engine room equipment.

Bridge propulsion control will also be provided.

The solid-state electronic sys- tem will be designed to the latest requirements of the U.S. Coast

Guard and the American Bureau of Shipping to allow for operation when the engine room is unat- tended. Extensive logging of ma- chinery conditions, off-normal alarm conditions, and engine or- ders will be a part of this inte- grated automation system.

The ship's propulsion plant will consist of two medium-speed die- sel engines coupled through a re- duction gear to a single control- lable-pitch propeller. Electrical power will be supplied by two die- sel generators. Automation is cur- rently being designed and equip- ment delivery will be in 1982.

Ingram Seeks Title XI

Aid On 50 Barges To

Cost Total Of $13.75 Million

Ingram Towing Company, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries

Inc., Nashville, Tenn., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of 50 hopper barges (35 rake type and 15 box type). The application did not include the name of the builder or builders, but indicated deliveries were to be in April (five barges), June (16 barges), and July (29 barges).

The requested guarantee is for $12,000,000, or approximately 87Vo percent of the $13,750,000 total estimated cost of the 50 barges.

Bombay Port Trust

Orders Two Voith

Water Tractors

The Bombay (India) Port Trust recently ordered two Voith Water

Tractors from the Indian ship- yard, The Hooghly Docking and

Engineering Co. Ltd., Calcutta.

The Voith Water Tractors will each have the following dimen- sions: length overall, approxi- mately 33 meters (108 feet) ; beam, 9.5 meters (31 feet) ; and total draught, approximately 4.8 meters (15% feet).

Two size 28G/185 Voith-

Schneider propellers are connect- ed to slow-rpm diesel engines via hydraulic couplings. The vessels are designed for a static bollard pull of approximately 35 tons and a free-running speed of about 12 knots.

Texaco Names Dubuisson

To New Offshore Post

Elliott Dubuisson has been ap- pointed assistant manager-Cen- tral Offshore Engineering, effec- tive immediately, it was an- nounced recently by Robert C.

Shields, vice president in charge of Producing-East for Texaco

U.S.A. In his new assignment,

Mr. Dubuisson will be located in

New Orleans, and will be respon- sible for supervising the design of production facilities for use in waters outside the territorial

United States.

Mr. Dubuisson graduated from

Mississippi State University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and joined Texaco that same year as a civil engineer in New Orleans.

He served with Texaco Overseas

Petroleum Company Nigeria in

Lagos as a construction engineer from 1974 until 1976 when he was named petroleum engineer there.

In 1977, he was appointed senior engineer with Dansk Boreselskab

A/S (DANBOR) in Copenhagen.

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