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Work Begins On Gulf Oil

Inland Drilling Barge

Looking on is Leon Vice Jr., Gulf's area drilling superintendent.

The vessel was designed by Petro-Marine

Engineering, Inc. of Houston, and is the first rig built for Gulf Oil by SMG. The barge will be completely outfitted with drill floor, pipe rack, helideck, 36-man quarters, drawworks, drilling mast, mud pumps, mo- tor control center, and other facilities. De- livery is scheduled for the end of this year.

Shipyard Conference Honors Past

Chairmen McKay And Pirozzolo

American Waterways Shipyard Conference chairman

John Buursema (center) presenting past chairmen

Jack Pirozzollo (left) and John F. McKay gifts honor- ing their service to the shipyard industry.

L.M. Wilson, general manager-drilling op- erations for Gulf Oil Exploration & Produc- tion Company, strikes a symbolic arc as

Service Machine Group (SMG) of Morgan

City, La., lays the keel for a 200-foot by 50-foot by 12-foot inland drilling barge.

Two past chairmen of the American Wa- terways Shipyard Conference (AWSC) have been honored for their service to the ship- yard industry. At a recent AWSC meeting in Houston, John F. McKay and Jack O.

Pirozzolo were each presented a mounted

Tug ANTHONY P ST. PHILIP (and sister ALICE ST. PHILIP) are equipped with Markey Towing Winch.

Capstans and Anchor windlass. These twin screw 5600 horsepower St. Philip tugs are engaged in regular cross U.S.

Gulf service pushing 27.500 D.W.T.. self discharge bulk cargo barges. St.

Philip holds with Markey. Shouldn't sou do the same?

I MARKEY]

MARKEY MACHINERY CO., INC.

P.O. Box 24788, Seattle, Wash. 98124 79 S. Horton St., Seattle, Wash. 98134

Ph. 206-622-4697

DECK AND AUXILIARY MACHINERY DESIGNING. BUILDING. REPAIRING

REPRESENtED BY

H. J. WICKER! & CO . INC., 790 tennessee St.,

San Francisco, Ca. 94107 • Ph. 415-647-3500

J. H. MENGE CO., INC., P.O. Box 23602,

New Orleans, La. 70183 • Ph. 504-733-4871

J. H. MENGE CO., INC., 1011 World Trade Bldg. 1520 Texas Ave, Houston, Tx. 77002 • 713-224-9750 brass ship's clock commemorating their service.

Mr. McKay, formerly of Maxon Marine and Jeffboat, Inc. and now a vice president with McAllister Bros. Inc., New York, was one of the original Shipyard Steering Com- mittee members who founded the AWSC in 1976. During his tenure as chairman in 1978, he led the AWSC in a successful battle to prevent foreign competitors from building vessels for domestic shipping in the United

States. Such an incursion, which has long been banned by law, would have been eco- nomically damaging to the U.S. shipbuilding economy.

Mr. Pirozzolo, an executive with Goldston

Shipbuilding Corporation, Corpus Christi,

Texas, served as AWSC chairman in 1980, when the AWSC received a grant from the

Occupational Safety and Health Administra- tion to develop safety training programs.

The first of these programs, New Employee

Safety Training, will be ready for distribu- tion by August.

The awards were presented by AWSC chairman John Buursema, president of Twin

City Shipyard, St. Paul, Minn. He praised both men "for their tireless efforts and out- standing contributions to the industry." He also noted that the groundwork laid by the past chairmen might make it possible for the shipyard industry to institute self- regulation in safety and health matters.

Under Mr. Buursema's leadership, the in- dustry has taken additional steps in this direction.

The AWSC consists of more than 70 ship- yards engaged in building and repairing ves- sels for the barge and towing industry, the offshore service industry, and the fishing industry. The AWSC keeps its members ap- prised of developments in the industry, thus providing the tools for more efficient operations, and aims to improve conditions for the small- and medium-sized shipyards to assure the long-term growth of the in- dustry.

Army Hopper Dredge 'Yaquina'

Repaired At Zidell Marine Yard f u

Zidell Marine Division, Ship Repair, Port- land, Ore., was awarded a contract recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out emergency repairs to the hopper dredge Yaquina (shown above), because of a burned-out bearing.

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