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vice president, and vice president of plant facilities and operations.

He is now Norshipco's executive vice president of operations and secretary of the corporation.

Mr. Eure is on the executive committee of the Propeller Club of

America, is secretary of MAREP-

CON Corporation, and is a mem- ber of the American Society of Na- val Engineers, The Society of Naval

Architects & Marine Engineers, the Shipbuilders Council of Amer- ica, and the Marine Chemists

Association.

Mr. Yates is vice president of sales at Kalium Chemicals in At- lanta. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PPG Indus- tries, Inc., Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining Kalium in 1972,

Mr. Yates was senior vice presi- dent of marketing for The Na- tional Bank of Georgia. He has also been executive vice president of Spratlin Associates, Inc. of At- lanta; president of Engineered Steel

Products, Inc. of Doraville, Ga.; and president of Duval Sales Cor- poration of Houston.

New Members Elected

To Norshipco Board

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ANOTHER GORILLA RIG TAKES SHAPE—The massive Rowan

Gorilla III, the third large, hostile environment offshore jackup drilling rig from Marathon LeTourneau, takes shape on the banks of the Missis- sippi River at the company's rig construction yard south of Vicksburg,

Miss. The big rig is being built for the Rowan Companies Inc., Houston,

Texas and is scheduled for delivery near the end of this year. Gorilla jackup rigs are specifically intended to operate year-round in ice-free, remote offshore areas where environmental conditions and remoteness from resupply had previously ruled out efficient use of jackups. Gorilla rigs have massive storage capacity for consumables used during drilling and have a patented Slotilever design that allows them to continue drilling under environmental conditions and sea states that would shut down drilling with other jackups and semisubmersibles. The first Go- rilla rig, the Rowan Gorilla I, is on location offshore Halifax, Nova Sco- tia. It has been there since early 1984 and has drilled efficiently throughout this past winter. Another Gorilla rig, also for Rowan, is un- der construction at Marathon LeTourneau's facility in the Republic of

Singapore.

Werner Knapp Named

President Of

American M.A.N. Corp.

L.C. Ackerman, Charles H.

Eure Jr., and O. Ray Yates Jr. have been elected to the board of directors at Norshipco, Norfolk,

Va.

Mr. Ackerman became associ- ated with the Walker Manufactur- ing Company, a manufacturer and marketer of automotive exhaust systems and filters, in 1952. In a span of 17 years, he served as product manager, marketing man- ager, vice president and general manager of the company's Cana- dian subsidiary, vice president of international operations, and pres- ident of the company.

During Mr. Ackerman's tenure as president (1966 through 1969),

Walker was acquired by Tenneco

Inc., which later named him chief executive officer of its shipbuild- ing subsidiary, Newport News

Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Company.

Later he was group vice presi- dent of the Questor Corporation and associate dean and assistant professor of business management at The College of William and

Mary in Williamsburg. Currently he is a self-employed consultant in the fields of automotive equip- ment, marine supply, and ship- building and repair.

Mr. Eure began his career at

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Dry Dock Company in 1951 as an analytical chemist. He joined Nor- shipco in 1961 as a marine chem- ist, and later became the com- pany's plant engineer, assistant

Werner Knapp has been ap- pointed president of American

M.A.N. Corporation, which has its principal office in New York and branch offices in Houston and San

Francisco. American M.A.N. Cor- poration is the U.S. representative of M.A.N., West Germany, and is responsible for all machinery and heavy engineering divisions, in- cluding M.A.N.-B&W Diesel.

Mr. Knapp has been with M.A.N, for a considerable period of time and has been employed in a num- ber of functions in Germany as well as in the international orga- nization of M.A.N.

Mr. Knapp succeeds K. Peter

Koch who, after almost 20 years as president of American M.A.N.

Corporation, has resigned. Mr.

Koch will continue to be associ- ated with American M.A.N. Cor- poration as a director of the company.

L.C. Ackerman 0. Ray Yates Jr. Charles H. Eure Jr.

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