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Chantiers de I'Atlantique

Wins $1.3 Billion Petronas

Contract For LNG Carriers

Chantiers de I'Atlantique, the

French shipbuilder, has won a $1.3 billion order from the Malaysian state oil company Petronas for five large LNG carriers, scoring a deci- sive victory for European yards over

Far East competition.

During the last few years, Japa- nese builders have taken the initia- tive on large LNG carriers from leading European builders, and

I'Atlantique was fighting five Japa- nese yards for this order.

The order marks a return to LNG carrier building for European build- ers after a gap of seven years. It also marks a return to gas carrier con- struction for the French yard, which has concentrated, with success, for most of the last decade on the cruise ship market.

Chantiers de I'Atlantique said that despite the absence of orders in recent years, gas carriers and tank- ers remain one of the three poles of its development strategy, along with passenger ships and navy vessels.

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ABS Elects New

Corporate Officers

At a recent board of managers meeting of the American Bureau of

Shipping, the following four new corporate vice presidents were elected; Walter Czerny, president of ABS Pacific; Vincent Roth, president of ABS Americas; Rob- ert Somerville, president of ABS

Europe; and Gary Latin, head of

ABS Information Management

Services.

ABS Americas, ABS Europe, and

ABS Pacific are operating divisions of the American Bureau of Ship- ping, a leading ship classification society. These divisions were recent- ly established by ABS in a corporate restructuring plan known as ABS 2000. This plan is designed to in- crease the depth, efficiency and de- livery of ABS services to clients around the world.

The board of managers also elected Andrew De Stena senior vice president of the American Bu- reau of Shipping. He is president of

ABS Industrial Verification, Inc., the new subsidiary company formed under ABS 2000 to provide verifica- tion services for the engineering, construction, and other nonmarine industries.

Exxon Celebrates Grand

Opening Of Port Allen

Lubricants Plant

Exxon Company, USA, officially opened its new Port Allen Lubri- cants (PAL) Plant this month with a grand-opening celebration at the

Port Allen, La., site.

April, 1991

On behalf of Exxon, plant man- ager Pete Hanberry announced that the company's new $50 million blending, packaging and warehous- ing facility is now fully operational.

Festivities included a ribbon cutting ceremony, plant tours, authentic

Cajun food and entertainment. Ap- proximately 500 Exxon customers and representatives, suppliers, local government officials and media rep- resentatives attended.

The PAL Plant occupies 250,000 square feet on the banks of the Mis- sissippi River across from the Exxon

Baton Rouge Refinery. The plant is the company's newest and most technologically advanced facility to date. It has the capacity to ship more than 80 million gallons per year of lubricants and process prod- ucts including industrial oils, greases, engine oils and solvents.

According to Mr. Hanberry. "Customer benefits derived from the computer technology and state- of-the-art equipment include con- sistent high-quality products, on- time delivery, quick turnaround, ac- curate and timely invoicing and per- sonalized service."

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