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Texaco Marine Services

Receives Ship

Management Contracts —Free Literature Available

Texaco Marine Services Inc. (TMSI), Port Arthur, Texas, has signed operating agreements with

Archon Shipping Inc., and Acturus

Shipping Inc., to manage the tanker

Brooklyn and the tanker Williams- burg, according to William R.

Cumming, president of TMSI.

TMSI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco Inc., is a full-service ship mangement company located in new facilities at Port Arthur. The tanker

Brooklyn and the tanker Williams- burg are both 225,000 dwt, very large crude carriers (VLCCs), con- structed in 1974 and remain under time charter to American Petrofina

Incorporated.

In addition to the new operating agreements, TMSI also operates

Texaco and subsidiary U.S. and for- eign-flag fleets of oceangoing tank- ers and coastwise units, as well as vessels for Saudi International Pe- troleum Carriers Ltd. and Nigerian

National Petroleum Corporation.

Mr. Cumming said that "TMSI is staffed with a professional multi- national force of marine and engi- neering experts and is actively seek- ing additional operating agreements to fully manage more vessels, both foreign and domestic." He also noted that TMSI offers shipowners many special services ranging from inventory control and planned maintenance programs to compu- terized energy conservation pro- grams.

For additional information on

Texaco Marine Services Inc., call (409) 989-6624 or write TMSI, P.O.

Drawer 1028, Port Arthur, Texas 77641 or, for complete literature and information,

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Wilson Walton Sells

Testing Services For

Ships/Offshore Structures

Wilson Walton International Ltd. of Stockton-on-Tees, U.K., signed an agreement with BV Materiaal

Metingen of Holland to sell the company's range of testing services in the U.K. for ships and offshore structures.

Under the terms of the agree- ment, Wilson Walton will be able to offer the shipowner and offshore operator within the U.K. a wide range of non-destructive testing ser- vices including ultrasonic and radio- graphic inspection, ultrasonic thick- ness measurement, magnetic parti- cle inspection, crack depth analysis and liquid penetration inspection.

These facilities are available from the BVMM offices in Holland and from their office in Curacao.

The agreement in conjunction with Wilson Walton's existing cor- rosion monitoring protection busi- ness enables the company to offer

January 1, 1986 comprehensive corrosion monitor- ing services to all shipowners and offshore operators.

The BVMM engineers are able to carry out this work while the vessel is alongside or alternatively on the voyage so enabling a full survey to be carried out prior to vessel/rig drydocking.

For further information on Wil- son Walton testing services,

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Naval Approval Goes

To Imperial Welding —Literature Available

Imperial Weld Ring Corporation,

Elizabeth, N.J., has been approved for level I sub safe nuclear work by the United States Navy's Ship Parts

Control Division. "We are proud of this new designation," stated Cal- vin Sierra, company vice presi- dent. "We feel that this is added recognition of the quality of our products."

For almost 30 years, Imperial has been producing backing rings, weld test coupons and consumable in- serts (SPEC. Mil-I-23413). The company distinguished itself by its excellent service and competitive pricing. Imperial products are used in all welding markets including ma- rine construction, nuclear, steam pressure vessels and other pipe fab- rication. Circle 11

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B thousand-ton ship, it s the first thing on your mind.

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THE PROBLEM

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