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relationship, including cooperation on several FPSO conversions. The

Pemex contract involves the 357,600-dwt tanker Juno, which is to be arranged with a 2.2-million barrel storage capacity as a float- ing storage unit (FSU).

For BHP Petroleum, JSL will upgrade FSU Shua Venture 1 — which on completion will be renamed Modec Venture 1 — to full

FPSO status, with the installation of additional processing modules.

She is expected to be ready for ser- vice next spring.

With regards to the Marathon

Petroleum Gabon contracts, an additional two projects have been secured by MODEC in conjunction with Japanese trading house

Nissho Iwai Corp, for this compa- ny.

The first involves the conversion of the 138,540-dwt tanker Anitra into a one million barrel FSO.

This project is also to be carried out by JSL.

The second project calls for U.S. conversion specialist Texas

Drydock Inc. (TDI) — recently bought by Halter Marine — for the conversion of the drilling platform

Ocean Ruler to a jack-up produc- tion unit. Both projects are expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Coflexip Modifies Board Of

Directors

Coflexip's Board of Directors recently elected Torvild

Aakvaag, formerly chairman of

Norsk Hydro, to replace Jacques

Blondeau as chairman and CEO ofSCOR.

Mr. Aakvaag began his career with various positions in the

Norwegian Foreign Service before joining Norsk Hydro in 1956 where he established and devel- oped the company's petroleum division in 1970. He was then suc- cessively appointed vice president (1975), president (1984-91), vice chairman of the board (1991) and chairman of the board (1992-97).

Transmission America

Names New Marketing Arm

Transmission America President

Art Cooling recently announced the association of Fore 'N Aft

Marine Marketers, LLC with the

Lake Charles, La.-based marine transmission company. Fore 'N Aft will represent Transmission

America in marketing the compa- ny's TONAN line of marine reduc- tion gears and will be responsible for the sale of the gears to vessel owners and shipyards along the

U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast.

Transmission America has sole dis- tribution rights with TONAN for

North and South America.

Solar Turbines Appoints

New Manager

Solar Turbines Inc. has appoint- ed Mike Donovan as manager,

Marine Business Development.

He is responsible for managing the worldwide sales, marketing and service support efforts for Solar's marine gas turbine propulsion sys- tems for high-speed vessels and succeeds Dave Dunley, who was promoted to a newly created posi- tion in the company's industrial turbine business sector.

Mr. Donovan is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has a

Master's degree in Naval

Architecture and Marine

Engineering from MIT. His back- ground includes ship design and operating experience with the U.S.

Navy and 14 years working in gas turbine product development, applications engineering, and pro- ject management at Solar

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