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Sonat Exploration Names

Executive Vice President

W.F. (Bill) Ammentorp has joined Sonat Exploration Com- pany as executive vice president.

Mr. Ammentorp will have re- sponsibilities for exploration, land, financial, engineering and corpo- rate planning functions, said Sonat

Exploration president Don Leigh.

Mr. Ammentorp most recently served as president of the explora- tion and production group of

InterNorth Inc., Houston. He earned his MS and BS degrees in geology from the University of

Wisconsin. He is a member of the

American Association of Petro- leum Geologists as well as local geological societies in various sec- tions of the country.

A subsidiary of Sonat Inc., Sonat

Exploration Company, headquar- tered in Houston, is involved in domestic exploration and produc- tion of oil and natural gas. It has lease interests in about 350,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico and about three million acres onshore in the south, the Appalachians and the Western United States.

Sonat Inc. is a $3-billion energy and energy services company headquartered in Birmingham. Its other businesses include natural gas pipelines, international off- shore drilling, marine transporta- tion, oil field services and forest products.

Drew Ameroid Unveils

New Fuel Additive — Literature Available

Drew Ameroid" Marine of Boon- ton, N.J., has introduced a new fuel additive called Amergize" de- posit modifier/combustion im- prover that is said to provide in- creased fuel efficiency and substantial cost savings. At the same time, Drew has announced cost savings to users of Amergize based on a rebate equal to one-half the price of a simplex dosing system.

Available worldwide, Amergize is a specially formulated, concen- trated blend of organometallic compounds developed to improve diesel engine combustion, reduce smoking, and lower valve and tur- bocharger deposits. It is com- pletely soluble in all fuels, does not become saturated or leached out by water, and does not harm engine parts or close-tolerence fuel- metering equipment.

The additive improves combus- tion by breaking up long-chain, high-molecular-weight hydrocar- bons that are so prevalent in to- day's marine bunkers. It also mod- ifies deposit-forming compounds to minimize high-temperature corro- sion and deposit formation.

Amergize is effective at concen- trations as low as one liter per six tons of fuel, and is dosed into the fuel line by means of a metering pump. It contains magnesium and rare earth materials that enhance fuel utilization and combustion, and reacts with fuel impurities to minimize damage to engine parts.

Amergize also reduces the forma- tion of corrosive sulfuric acid by reacting with vanadium pentox- ide, a catalytic material that causes sulfuric acid to form during com- bustion. It combines with these and other harmful contaminants in the ship's fuel, causing them to form more stable and less corro- sive compounds that are harm- lessly passed out of the engine as a high-melting-point ash.

Drew service representatives will assist ship managers in determin- ing specific treatment rates for bunker fuels high in vanadium, sodium, and sulfur. In addition,

Drew offers a Pace® fuel evalua- tion program to help determine fuel characteristics present prior to dosing.

For further information and free literature on Amergize and Drew's special dosing system offer,

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