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cooperation among the community.

OTC '86 continued and communication international offshore

For the first time at

OTC, Commerce Department staff will direct foreign visitors to appro- priate exhibitors, and counsel U.S. exhibitors on export/import mat- ters. Foreign trade delegates will receive the OTC Export Interest Di- rectory to help them locate available products, services, and equipment exhibited at OTC.

The exhibition, including special indoor and outdoor areas, opens at 8:30 am Monday, May 5. Exhibition hours are 8:30 to 5 pm, May 6 and 7, and 8:30 to 3 pm, May 8.

The array of drilling rigs, Christ- mas trees, blowout preventers, and high-tech data acquisition systems will also include a walking undersea robot. An invention of Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries Ltd., the robot walks on four spider-like legs on the sea bottom near foundations and structures to perform assigned "ONLY A CHOSEN FEW

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PHOENIX* tasks. Mitsubishi will demonstrate the robot at its booth during the exhibition.

More than 10 national groups plan exhibits, including Norway,

Italy, the Netherlands, United

Kingdom, West Germany, and

France. Canada will combine the booths of all its provinces into one giant 18,000-square-foot exhibit, another exhibition highlight.

The world's largest forum for de- velopment of offshore and ocean resources, OTC is sponsored jointly by 11 of the world's foremost engi- neering and scientific organizations, including The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers and the Marine Technology Society, with worldwide membership of more than 700,000. The Society of

Petroleum Engineers in Richardson,

Texas, manages the conference for the sponsoring organizations.

Topical Lunches

This year the OTC will again offer its popular series of topical lun- cheons. The four informal lun- cheons scheduled will allow many opportunities for stimulating dis- cussions between speakers and au- diences.

On Tuesday, May 6, two lun- cheons are scheduled: Challenges and Achievements — StatPipe

Transportation System, given by

Tor Espedel, vice president of pipeline technology for Statoil; and

Technical and Business Strategies and Business Strategies for Frontier

Developments, by R.E. KMcKee, manager of North American pro- duction for Conoco Inc. Norway's

StatPipe is the world's largest off- shore gathering system, crossing the

Norwegian Trench twice at 1,000 feet to deliver North Sea production to shore.

On May 7 a special panel will dis- cuss The Human Resources Aspect of Deepwater Production Opera- tions. Panelists will be John A.

Haeber, retired president of Vetco

Offshore Inc.; Ron L. Geer, senior mechanical engineer for Shell Off- shore Inc.; Dillard S. Hammett, vice president of SEDCO-Forex; and moderator Joe W. Key, direc- tor of R&D for Offshore Production

Systems Inc. For Wednesday's sec- ond luncheon, H.R. Brannon, se- nior research scientist at Exxon

Production Research Company, will speak on Deepwater Development

Alternatives. The many designs for structures and systems to develop deepwater oil and gas reserves re- flect current thinking about how deep the offshore industry can go.

The informality of these topical luncheons encourages frank discus- sion of issues during question-and- answer periods. The series is one of the most popular technical attrac- tions of the annual conference and exhibition.

OTC Awards

The Offshore Technology Confer- ence will present its 1986 Distin- guished Achievement Award to W.

Harry Mayne, consultant for

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