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OIL SPILL TECHNOLOGY and Lateral Sense to enhance over- all operation.

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Port of London Prepared For

The Worst

The Port of London has not had a major oil spill in more than 40 years, but with more than 28,000 ship movements a year, the authorities are not taking their good for- tune for granted. The formation of the Thames Oil Spill Clearance

Association (TOSCA) is a joint ven- ture between the Port of London

Authority (PLA) and the oil industry to pro- vide a fast response to oil spills in the tidal

Thames. TOSCAhasa fleet of craft which are designed to cope with oil spills of up to 50 tons.

One of the latest TOSCA vessels is

Respond, built by RTK Marine.

The above photograph shows the vessel in operation to remove oil from the river's surface. Built of glass reinforced polyester,

Respond's landing craft design, with a bow ramp and heavily built underwater hull, means it can be beached easily when operations require.

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Red Fox Environmental

Services Acquired

A manufacturer of marine sani- tation devices, land-based waste water and sewage treatment sys- tems, and industrial trash com- pactors, Red Fox Environmental

Services, Inc. has been acquired by

Beldon E. Fox, Jr., D. Glenn

Richardson, and Jason P. Gondron,

Sr. Red Fox Environmental is a

U.S. and foreign government con- tractor, as well as an oilfield ser- vice and marine service equipment manufacturer with corporate offices in Lafayette, La. and sales and engineering offices in

Houston, Tx. Three new interna- tional branch offices have been established as the following: Red

Fox Europe in Leipzig, Germany;

Red Fox Chile in Vina del Mar,

Chile; Red Fox Asia in Ho Chi

Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.

Further offices are planned for

Mexico, Egypt, Brazil and

Venezuela.

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Desmi Saves Offshore

Norwegian Operation

The Nome oil field in Norway was shut down in early 1998 because it was found that the oil spill skimmers held on standby were not able to handle the heavy waxy oil produced in the field. Oil from Nome is apparently more vis- cous than other crude currently produced in Norway, and the

Norwegian pollution control agency is leg- endary worldwide for its strict envi- ronmental regula- tions (not to men- tion field operator

Statoil's stringent policies).

Ro-Clean Desmi was able to pro- vide a solution in the form of the

Desmi DOP250 pump. This

Archimede's screw pump is designed to handle high viscosity capacity, and was chosen after extensive testing by Statoil.

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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

To see, or be seen

This is the event that matters

CRUISE + FERRY

GRAND HALL OLYMPIA LONDON - MAY 11 -12A3,1999

FOR ALL THAT

IS NEW IN

CRUISE SHIPS,

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Contact

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Cruise + Ferry Secretariat

Maritime Conferences and Exhibitions

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Tel: +44 171 553 1764

Fax: +44 171 553 1738 or

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