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MarAd Approves $1.4-Million Title XI For

Newpark Offshore Marine

Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Maritime Affairs Bruce A. McAl- lister has approved in principle an application by Newpark Off- shore Marine, Inc., 908 Front

Street, Morgan City, La., for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in re- financing an oceangoing deck barge. (Newpark Offshore, a sub- sidiary of Newpark Resources,

Inc., was formerly known as F &

S Offshore, Inc.)

The 250-foot-long barge, built by Newpark Shipbuilding & Re- pair, Houston, Texas, in 1979, is employed in the carriage of oil- field related equipment in the

Gulf of Mexico.

The Title XI guarantee covers $1,418,000, or approximately 87% percent of the vessel's $1,621,455 estimated depreciated actual cost.

New Shell Booklet Tells

How MVI Oils Perform

In Medium-Speed Diesels

Shell Oil Company is offering a free eight-page booklet on ques- tions and answers about MVI (medium viscosity index) oils used in medium-speed diesels.

The booklet compares perform- ance of MVI oils with high vis- cosity index (HVI) oils in the large medium-speed diesels typ- ically used in shallow draft ma- rine vessels and offshore drilling rigs.

It defines MVI, HVI and LVI oils, tells how the viscosity index is determined, and describes the effect of VI on engine perform- ance. Other areas covered are the effects of modern technology on lube oils, engine oil monitor- ing, engine manufacturers' lube oil recommendations, and supply and demand.

For a free copy of this new

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Dr. P.W. Murrill Elected

To Tidewater Board

Tidewater Inc., New Orleans,

La., has elected Dr. Paul W. Mur- rill, senior vice president for re- search and development, Ethyl

Corp. of Baton Rouge, and former chancellor of Louisiana State Uni- versity, to the company's board of directors.

This was announced by John

P. Laborde, Tidewater chairman, president and chief executive of- ficer, who said: "Dr. Murrill's superior academic and business background and experience in various engineering disciplines will lend added depth and tech- nical wisdom to the Tidewater board. We are highly pleased and fortunate that his advice, coun- sel, and guidance will be avail- able to our organization."

Dr. Murrill, a St. Louis, Mo., native who was reared in Clinton,

Miss., earned his bachelor's and advanced degrees in chemical en- gineering at the University of

Mississippi and Louisiana State

University. He had been a mem- ber of the L.S.U. faculty since 1963 and joined Ethyl Corpora- tion last January after having served as chancellor from 1974 through 1980.

He serves as a director of the

Ethyl Corp., The Foxboro Co., the First Mississippi Corp., the

Fidelity National Bank of Baton

Rouge, and has served as a con- sultant to numerous commercial, industrial, government and aca- demic organizations in the United

States and abroad.

He is author or coauthor of eight textbooks in the use of computers, mathematical models and automatic control theory.

Dr. Murrill's honors include the Halliburton Award for Ex- cellence in Engineering Teaching (1967) ; one of the Outstanding

Young Men in America (1970) ;

Who's Who in America (1975) ; the Andrew M. Lockett Award of the Louisiana Engineering Soci- ety (1978) ; and among the 100 best educators in the U.S. (1978).

His election is effective imme- diately, Mr. Laborde said.

Tidewater, organized 25 years ago, supplies marine support ves- sels to the offshore oil and gas industry around the world and provides compression equipment and services and oil and gas ex- ploration and production activi- ties on land throughout the U.S.

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