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Tidewater Pays $407 Million

For Zapata Affiliate

New Orleans, La.-based Tidewa- ter Inc. announced that it will pay an estimated $407 million for Zapata

Corp's offshore supply vessel affili- ate, Zapata Gulf Marine Corp.

The purchase, which was first announced recently by Houston- based Zapata, would make the new entity the nation's largest offshore supply vessel company.

Zapata Gulf currently is owned by three entities, which would re- ceive a combined total of 23.8 mil- lion new shares of Tidewater stock, valued at $315 million. Zapata own- ers then would control about 45 per- cent of Tidewater, a New Orleans- based energy company. Tidewater also would assume some $92 million of Zapata's debt.

Zapata Corp. of Houston, Zapata

Gulfs majority partner, is an oil producer started in the 1950s by

President George Bush, who no longer holds any interest in the firm.

John P. Laborde will continue as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Tidewater.

Tidewater's board of directors will be increased from seven to 10 mem- bers with the addition of three former directors of Zapata Gulf. The com- bined company will be headquar- tered in New Orleans.

Seaward Awarded Contract

For Submarine Fenders

Seaward International, Inc.,

Clearbrook, Va., was recently awarded a contract exceeding $500,000 by the Naval Submarine

Base in Kings Bay, Ga.

Seaward will design, manufac- ture and deliver one shipset of heavy- duty pneumatic fenders which will incorporate a polyurethane elas- tomer body. This elastomer, devel- oped and produced by Seaward, is specially formulated to increase the fender's strength and abrasion re- sistance, and to prolong the fender's operational life. Each fender will have a nominal body size of 14 feet in diameter by 35 feet in length and will be designed to meet the critical performance criteria specified by

Navy operations.

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HPMV '92 Conference Set

By ASNE For June 24-27

In Arlington Virginia

The American Society of Naval

Engineers (ASNE) has announced that a 1992 Intersociety High Per- formance Marine Vehicles Confer- ence and Exhibit (HPMV-92) will be held on June 24-27, 1992, at the

Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Arlington, Va.

ASNE's Flagship Section is the principal sponsor for HPMV 92.

Cosponsors include American Soci- ety of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Hydrofoil

Society, The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), Surface Navy Associa- tion (SNA), U.S. Hovercraft Society,

Wingship Society, David Taylor Re- search Center (DTRC), U.S. Coast

Guard (USCG), and U.S. Maritime

Administration (MarAd).

In addition to featuring an ex- hibit area for table-top exhibits,

HPMV will host demonstrations and inspections of various high-perfor- mance marine vehicles at local sites.

A call for papers has been issued for the symposium, with suggested topics as follows:

Applications; Operations; Design & Construction; Test & Evaluation;

Economics; Logistics; Maintenance;

Planing Monohulls; Planing Cata- marans; Catamarans; Wave

Piercers; Small Waterplane Area

Twin-Hulls (SWATH); Hydrofoils;

Wingships (WIG); Air Cushion Ve- hicles (ACV); Surface Effect Ships (SES; Seaplanes; Propulsion Sys- tems; Components; and Materials and Fabrication.

Abstracts are due by October 1, 1991. Accepted papers must be pre- pared as camera-ready copy and must be received by March 1, 1992.

Instructions to authors will accom- pany notice of acceptance.

For further information on HPMV '92, contact American Society of

Naval Engineers, 1452 Duke Street,

Alexandria, Va. 22314-3458, Attn:

Capt. James Kehoe, USN (ret.); telephone contact, Capt. James E.

Grabb, USCG (ret.), phone l-(703) 836-6727, fax l-(703) 836-7491. 10th Offshore Europe

Conference Expands

The 1991 Offshore Europe Con- ference and Exhibition will feature a record-setting technical program and exhibition September 3-6, at the Conference and Exhibition Cen- ter in Aberdeen, Scotland. With more than 130 papers and nearly 1,500 companies from 20 countries exhibiting the latest offshore prod- ucts and services, the 10th edition of this biennial conference will be the largest held since in began in 1973.

The comprehensive 21-session technical program covers drilling engineering and design, protection of the environment, subsea systems, drilling technology and equipment, environmental muds, flow measure- ments, mud and cement, case histo- ries, North Sea Operations and in- novations, riser technology and fa- cilities, horizontal wells, formation evaluation, remedial well treatment, sand control, safety procedures in drilling and production, reservoir modeling, completions, integrity of platform design, and business as- pects of offshore operations.

Full information on all aspects of

Offshore Europe 91 is available from

Offshore Europe, Rowe House 55/59

Fife Road, Kingston upon Thames,

Surrey KT11TA, U.K., phone (081) 549-5831, fax (081) 541 5657/5016. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News