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SPE's Annual Meeting: New

Officers, Tech Program

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USCG Senior Chief Receives

Award From Assoc. For

Rescue At Sea

F. Scott Clendenin, senior chief boatswain's mate of the U.S. Coast

Guard (USCG), received the Asso- ciation for Rescue at Sea's Gold

Medal Award and a cash prize for outstanding achievement in the per- formance of duty on April 15, 1993.

Senior Chief Clendenin was in- volved in a rescue when a 42-ft. (13- m) charter boat,Rainsong, capsized just outside the Yaquina Bay bar in

Newport, Ore., throwing 15 people into the water.

While serving as surfman of the 30-ft. (9-m) USCG Surf Rescue Boat 30618, Senior Chief Clendenin guided the craft through the break- ing bar, low visibility and rain squalls to the accident scene. He rescued five victims and success- fully delivered the injured parties to waiting ambulances.

After rescuing the survivors, Se- nior Chief Clendenin was called upon a second time to cross the bar and assist Motor Lifeboat (MLB) 44356m towing MLBVictory, which had lost steering inside the North

Reef.

He assisted MLB 44356 during the tow and assisted the vessel and its tow across the hazardous bar at night.

Keppel Cairncross

Completes A Number

Of Ship Repair Operations

Keppel Cairncross Shipyard Ltd., the Keppel Group's new joint ven- ture in Brisbane, Australia, success- fully carried out a number of afloat repairs.

Since April, five vessels have un- dergone significant repairs at the yard's fitting out berth. The largest among them is the 104,996-dwtAas- tralia Ocean, a crude carrier owned by Caltex Tanker Company, Austra- lia. Keppel Cairncross, which took over operations of the Cairncross

Drydock complex in March 1994, carried out fatigue repairs to the vessel's tank webb and frame as wel] as deck corrosion control.

The first vessel to be repaired ai

Keppel Cairncross was the 101,609- dwt oil tanker Ampol Sarel, which underwent minor repairs and sur- vey. The Brisbane-registeredAmpo/

Sarel is owned by Ampol Ltd., ar

Australian-owned oil company. The vessel will be returning to the yard for a major refit on its accommoda- tion and other repairs.

Keppel Cairncross is refurbish- ing the Cairncross Drydock, which has been closed since 1987. Leong

Kang Chuen, managing director ol

Keppel Cairncross, said, "We art working on reopening the drydock before the end of the year in order tc provide more comprehensive shij repair services for shipowners.'

Expected to be operating by the enc of1994, the 864-ft. (263-m)by 105-ft (32-m) drydock can accommodate vessels of up to 85,000 dwt.

Circle 250 on Reader Service Card 86 "The Energy of Change" was th( theme for the 1994 Society of Petro leum Engineers' (SPE) Annual Tech nical Conference and Exhibition held in New Orleans September 25 28.

Society officials expected abou 9,000 registrants for the 69th edi tion of the ATCE, as well as mori than 300 companies participating ii the international exhibition, whicl covered 70,000-sq.-ft. at the Ernes

N. Morial Convention Center.

In addition to the 355-paper tech nical program and exhibition, Soci ety committee meetings were con ducted during the conference.

Roy Koerner, Texaco U.S.A. was installed as 1995 SPE presi dent, and five new members of thi

SPE board were welcomed. Thi incoming directors are: W. Bur

Nelson of Sonat Exploration Co.; J

Michael Gatens III of S.A. Holditcl and Assoc.; Jeff R. Gibbs of Nortl

American Royalties Inc.; James E

McFarland of Imperial Oil Ltd. and SPE Treasurer Robert D

Steele of Canadian Hunter Explo ration.

SPE is a nonprofit, technical am professional association engaged ii energy resources development an< production.

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