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Tidewater's Koock Tide has been modified for special service off the coast of West Africa..

Tidewater Marine Service Modifies

Vessel For West African Service

Tidewater Marine Service, Inc.,

Tidewater Inc.'s marine subsidiary, has outfitted one of its supply ves- sels for special service off the coast of West Africa for Nigerian AGIP

Oil Co., Ltd., a venture of the na- tional oil companies of Nigeria and

Italy.

According to Richard M. Cur- rence, president of Tidewater Ma- rine Service and a senior vice presi- dent of Tidewater Inc., the Koock

Tide, a 180-foot, 2,250 horsepower supply vessel, was modified and equipped to support Nigerian

AGIP's Brass River production and loading facilities in Nigeria, West

Africa.

Principal modifications included: the installation of stern and side ramps to facilitate the handling of floating hoses; a workshop; a storage area; and a decompression chamber.

The vessel's quarters have also been enlarged and modernized to accom- modate the charterer's crew.

The new equipment additions to the Koock Tide are: a 20-ton tele- scopic crane; a mooring system with independent hydraulic mooring winches; and 80-ton-capacity "A" frame; two tugger winches; and a waterfall type double-drum winch.

The vessel's navigation and com- munications equipment was stream- lined and in addition, a satellite communication system was in- stalled.

The Koock Tide was also fitted with an improved firefighting sys- tem capable of discharging water or foam.

With these modifications and ad- ditions, the Koock Tide is the only ship of its kind in Tidewater's 267- vessel fleet and will be joined by two new mooring tugs off the coast of

Africa, this summer. The tugs are currently under construction for

Tidewater Marine at a U.S. Gulf

Coast shipyard.

Tidewater owns and operates one of the world's largest fleets of ves- sels supporting the offshore oil and gas industry.

Italian Advanced Industries

Formed By Finmeccanica

Franco Viezzoli, president of

Finmeccanica, one of Italy's largest and most advanced industrial groups, has announced the estab- lishment of Italian Advanced Indus- tries, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Own- ership of the new company is shared by Finmeccanica, Aeritalia, Alfa

Romeo, Ansaldo and V.M., all of which were active in the U.S. last year in programs which amounted to $200 million.

Mr. Viezzoli cited Aeritalia's agreement with Boeing for the 767 aircraft and the McDonnell Douglas for the DC-9, MD-80 series, and

DC-10 aircraft; Ansaldo's agree- ments with General Electric and

Westinghouse for conventional and nuclear technologies; and contracts for V.M.'s Isotta Fraschini amagnet- ic diesel engines for U.S. Navy mine sweepers, as major agreements be- tween his Finmeccanica companies and U.S. industry. Mr. Viezzoli

July 16, 1985 also highlighted Alfa Romeo's in- crease in automotive sales and the near completion of a 110MW geo- thermal power plant in California.

In establishing Italian Advanced

Industries, Inc., Finmeccanica pro- vides evidence of the continuing in- terest in the commercial and tech- nological importance of the North

America market.

Gates Joins AMETEK As

Lead Design Engineer

AMETEK, Offshore Research &

Engineering Division, a high-tech- nology offshore research and devel- opment company headquartered in

Santa Barbara, Calif., has an- nounced the addition of Stephen

Gates to its engineering staff as a lead design engineer, responsible for mechanical and structural marine systems. The company also an- nounced that Manuel Martinez has been employed as principal me- chanical/structural engineer.

Samsung Wins $50-Million

Contract For Two Tankers

For Australian Owner

Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy

Industries Co., Ltd., of Korea has been awarded a newbuilding con- tract to construct two 95,000-dwt product/crude oil tankers for an

Australian shipowner at a total val- ue of $50 million.

The contract is the second for the

Korean yard obtained from Austra- lia this year. It was signed in Seoul by K.S. Choi, president of SHI; A.

Thomson, assistant general man- ager of Howard Smith Ltd.; and

E.G. Anson, general manager of

Howard Smith Industries Pty. Ltd.

After delivery, which is scheduled for the second half of 1986, the two vessels will be in operation on the

Australia-Middle East route to car- ry crude and product oil.

The approximate principal di- mensions of each of the vessels are 7541/, feet long, 150 feet wide, and 63 feet deep, with a draft of 40 feet.

The vessels will be propelled by

B&W 5L80MCE engines developing 14,050 bhp at MCR, with a service speed of 14.8 knots. The vessels fea- ture a shallow draft and high effi- ciency in fuel saving.

Burker Elected President

And CEO Of Siemens-Allis

Harry S. Burker Jr. has been elected president and chief execu- tive officer, and member of the board of directors of Siemens-Allis

Inc., it was recently announced. He succeeds C.W. Diercks Jr., who will serve as president and chief executive officer of Utility Power

Corp., a sister company.

Mr. Burker, who was named se- nior vice president of Siemens-Allis by the board of directors in Decem- ber 1984, has been president and general manager of the I-T-E Elec- trical Products Division since it was acquired from Gould Inc. in January 1983. Previously, Mr. Burker served in various senior level man- agement positions with Gould, be- ginning in 1969. These included vice president and director of marketing,

Century Electric Division; president and general manager, Electrical

Products Sales Division; vice presi- dent of marketing, Distribution and

Controls Division; and president of

Electrical Products Sales Division.

In 1981 he was appointed president and general manager of the Distri- bution and Controls Division and held that position until I-T-E's ac- quisition by Siemens-Allis in 1983.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.,

Siemens-Allis Inc. is a manufacturer of electrical and electronic equip- ment and systems for electric utili- ties and general industry. The com- pany, which is jointly owned by

Siemens AG of West Germany and

Allis-Chalmers Corp. of Milwaukee, has 24 plants in the United States and its products are marketed worldwide.

Siemens-Allis is one of four prin- cipal Siemens USA companies, the others being Siemens Communica- tion Systems, Siemens Components, and Siemens Medical Systems. To- gether they employ more than 15,000 people in more than 200 loca- tions nationwide. The combined sales of all Siemens companies in the United States are in excess of $1.6 billion annually.

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