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Skaarup Announces

Personnel Changes

Ole Skaarup, chairman of

Skaarup Shipping Corporation of

Greenwich, Conn., has announced that William O. Gray has been appointed president of Skaarup Oil

Corporation and that Capt. Law- rence Tzou has assumed full re- sponsibility for ship operations and management for Skaarup Shipping

Corporation.

Mr. Gray assumes the position of president after several years as ex- ecutive vice president of Skaarup

Shipping Corporation, and 23 years with Exxon. He will continue to develop Skaarup Oil Corporation's historic businesses as well as explore oil and gas tanker shipping opportu- nities. Mr. Gray is also currently vice chairman of the National Acad- emy of Sciences Committee which is studying the technical issues in- volved in tanker designs, including double bottoms and other alterna- tives.

Captain Tzou maintains opera- tional control of the Skaarup owned and managed fleet from the Group's headquarters in Greenwich, Conn.

The Skaarup group of companies own, charter and manage vessels providing professional and innova- tive cargo transportation services to the industrial sector. The personnel moves are unrelated to the recently announced union of Mitsui O.S.K.

Lines Ltd. and Skaarup Shipping

Corporation.

Lips Offers New Brochure

On Marine Propellers

And Steerable Thrusters

Lips Thrusters B.V. of the Ne- therlands, one of the world's leading manufacturers of marine propellers, has published a full-color, 24-page brochure on marine propellers and steerable thrusters.

Since its founding in 1928, Lips has supplied over 45,000 fixed-pitch propellers, with sizes up to 11 me- ters diameter, and over 3,000 con- trollable-pitch propellers, for pow- ers up to 48,000 kw, totaling in excess of 6,500,000 kw.

Of the latter, more than 300,000 kw is in transverse thrusters.

From its head office and main production facilities at Drunen in the Netherlands, Lips B.V. coordi- nates additional manufacturing plants, which it operates either as wholly owned subsidiaries or as joint ventures with local companies, in a number of important shipbuild- ing countries. In addition, the com- pany maintains a worldwide net- work of agents and service/repair workshops.

The well-illustrated brochure contains descriptions of the thrust- ers offered by Lips, such as mod- ular, can-mounted, containerized, retractable, and thrusters for under- water mounting. Also included is a discussion of technical features as well as other information.

For a free copy of the full-color, 24-page brochure from Lips,

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Offshore Symposium Set

For Houston, April 4-5

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) has scheduled the 2nd Offshore Symposium, Design Criteria and

Codes, for April 4-5, 1991, at the Westchase Hilton Hotel in Houston,

Texas.

The event, which is being spon- sored by the Texas Section of the society, will feature 22 papers and three panel discussion topics. Pre- sented over two days, the papers will focus on the following areas of interest: "Mobile Offshore Drill- ing"; "Floating Production"; "De- sign Criteria Issues"; "Marine Oper- ations"; and "Risk and Reliability."

The panel discussion presented on the afternoon of Friday, April 5, will focus on "The Offshore Code

Development Process: Committees and Classification"; "The Role of

Regulatory Agencies"; and "Inter- nationalization of Design Codes."

For further information on the symposium, contact: John J. Fil- son, chairman, Second Offshore

Symposium, C/O Omega Marine

Engineering Systems, Inc., 11757

Kathy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77079; telephone: (713) 870-1111; or fax: (713) 531-9306.

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