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Shown at joint meeting of three technical societies in Los Angeles are (L to R): Max Cheung, chairman, SNAME; Bill Watts, public relations, SNAME; Chuck Chamberlain, vice chairman,

MTS; Kathleen King, chairman, MTS; Dan Friedman, author; Capt. Charles Niederman, ASNE; and Herb Chatterton, Spring Meeting Committee, SNAME.

Joint SNAME/ASNE/MTS Meeting

Hears Paper On Offshore Platforms

The fourth meeting of the 1983- 84 season of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers

Los Angeles Metropolitan Section was held aboard the SS Princess

Louise I. Some 100 members and guests attended this joint meeting with the American Society of Na- val Engineers and the Marine

Technology Society. Prior to the technical portion of the evening, each organization provided news and announcements.

The guest speaker at the meet- ing was Dan Friedman, vice president and general manager of

Fluor Offshore Services of Irvine,

Calif. His presentation, accom- panied by slides and movies, was titled "An Update of the Offshore

Platform Industry."

Mr. Friedman began with a chronology of offshore oil drilling developments beginning in 1896.

Drilling and production offshore southern California began early in this century utilizing trestles and crude wood pile structures in very shallow water. Pictures were shown of a few of these early platforms.

The author then reviewed some aspects of current technology.

Conventional steel jacket struc- tures, steel and concrete gravity- based structures, and floating platforms were examined. Deep- water applications also were dis- cussed, including tension leg plat- forms, Exxon's guyed tower, and fixed buoyant towers. Methods of problem solving are important in developing the more recent appli- cations. These include model test- ing, full scale empirical data, and new metallurgical information. He stressed the use of computer de- sign tools such as three-dimen- sional frame analysis, environ- ment loads dynamics, and fatigue analysis.

Mr. Friedman concluded by showing two interesting films. The first covered the deployment of

CONOCO's barge-launched jacket structure in 500 feet of water at the Murchison Field in the North

Sea. The second film showed the construction in Norway and tow- ing of a 200,000-ton concrete, gravity-based production platform destined for the Frigg Field in 200 feet of water.

Sperry Awarded $5 Million

For Navy Long Lead Items

And Engineering Work

Sperry Corporation, Electronics

Division, Great Neck, N.Y., has been awarded $5 million to in- crease the limitation of liability to provide additional long lead time material and engineering develop- ment for the MK 92 phased-array radar. The Naval Sea Systems

Command is the contracting ac- tivity.

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