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McConkey Joins Biocontrol

Group

Biocontrol Technology, Inc. announced that Phil McConkey has assumed the position of chief operating officer for subsidiary

Petrol Rem, Inc., responsible for overall direction of the company with emphasis on sales and mar- keting of the company's oil spill cleanup products.

Mr. McConkey served five years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and communications officer, and has also been a wide receiver for the New York Giants football team. Most previously, he was managing director of Alexander &

Alexander Inc.'s Greater New York

Insurance Services Practice.

Palmer Johnson Opens

Office; Names VP

Rescue

On May 30, Capt. Randall

Treon and the four-member MV

Trinity Seal crew were recognized at a dinner held in their honor by

American Exploration at the

Petroleum Club in Houston. The ship's crew carried out the safe evacuation of 42 personnel on

American Exploration's East

Cameron Block 328 platform when the A-6 well blew out on April 1. "American Exploration believes the decisive and courageous action by the captain and crew of the

Trinity Seal, without regard for their own safety, may well have saved the lives of the platform per- sonnel," said CEO Mark

Andrews.

The platform ignited shortly after full evacuation and burned for three days. The well was capped on May 18th, reportedly without adverse spill from the blowout and fire. Production from the platform is expected to be delayed, but not impaired, while facilities are rebuilt and drilling is resumed.

Clough Recognized For

Fisheries Management Work

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Southeast Regional Director

Noreen K. Clough has been named the American Sportfishing

Association's 1997 Woman of the

Trinity Seal Crew Honored

For Offshore Platform mer.

The office will be staffed by

John Spencer, Mike Kelsey, Jr., and Capt. Jennifer Schubert.

In addition, Alton Herndon has been named executive vice president of parent company

Palmer Johnson Enterprises. He was previously the president of

Hatteras Yachts for 11 years, where he began his career 28 years ago as an industrial engineer.

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Wis., as he announced plans for the yacht building company to open a new office in Fort Lauderdale this sum-

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