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Schlumberger Limited. Transocean

Sedco Forex is now designated as the world's largest offshore drilling contrac- tor and third largest oilfield services company in terms of equity market cap- italization, based on closing prices of the merger date.

In the merger, about 109.6 million ordinary shares of Transocean Offshore are being issued to stockholders of

Schlumberger. Following the merger.

Schlumberger stockholders hold about 52 percent of the approximately 210.1 million outstanding shares of

Transocean Sedco Forex.

UKHO Appoints New

Board Director

The United Kingdom Hydrographic

Office (UKHO) in Taunton has elected

Bob Moss as director of marketing, fol- lowing the retirement of Ian Harkness. who had spent three years in the posi- tion. Boss, who joined UKHO in

December 1999, previously served as commercial director of Bank Line, operator of multi-purpose vessels serv- ing the South Pacific Islands.

Napier's SM Coating Series

Offers Safe Removal

Designed to open the pores of the coating system, allowing the product to penetrate to the substrate, the SM series formulation then destabilizes the bond - releasing the coating from the underly- ing surface. The coating can then be removed with ease via water blasting with minimal pressure, or by hand in sensitive areas. However, some coatings such as polyurethane can be vacuumed or squeezed off the substrate. A simpli- fied cleanup allows for dramatically lowered costs, while coating removal can be completed anywhere, thus reduc- ing the need for protective equipment. ventilation or breathing gear.

The SM series has been developed to remove protective coatings including linear and crosslinked polyurethane's, solvent and water borne epoxy primers.

From a shipyard standpoint, beneficial features include no fear of toxic, haz- ardous chemicals impacting the envi- ronment, workers or any substrate.

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GD Appoints Welch As Snr. VP

General Dynamics (GD) has named

John K. Welch as senior vice president of the corporation and head of the marine systems group, which includes all of the company's shipbuilding and marine service operations. Welch will report to Nicholas D. Chabraja, GD chairman and CEO. at the company's

Falls Church, Va. headquarters.

Welch, who has been a vice president of the corporation and president of the company's Electric Boat business since 1995, will succeed James E. Turner,

Jr., president and COO of GD, who has headed up the group for the past five years. The company announced that

Turner plans to retire on January 15, and that it does not intend to name a new president. In addition, Michael W.

Toner will take over Welch's position as president of Electric Boat, Groton.

Conn. Toner, who has been a senior vice president of Electric Boat since 1998 will continue to report to Welch.

STN Introduces New Speed Log

STN Atlas Marine Electronics has introduced a new integrated satellite navigation and speed log system with combined 24-channel GPS-Glonass positioning. Providing simultaneous or separate position and speed calculations via GPS, Differential GPS and/or

Glonass satellites, the Debeg Satlog 4124 provides worldwide positional and

Furuno Introduces CH-37 Sonar

New from Furuno is CH-37, the world's only phased array sector scan sonar. Measuring 15-in., this high- performance daylight viewing unit allows the operator to choose from forward, vertical or searchlight scan modes. Incorporating Furuno's phased array technology, CH-37 scans a full 360-degrees in just 8.6 seconds on the 1,500 ft. range. The product features echoes in eight or 16 colors on a high- resolution CRT, offering unsurpassed visibility. Displaying clear underwa- ter images in full-circle, searchlight, vertical fan or 3D bottom profile graphics, an external monitor can also be connected to CH-37 with an optional video output interface board.

Available in 60, 113 or 162 kHz frequencies, CH-37 offers 12 range scales from 100 to 6,000 ft. (20 to 1,000 fathoms) when operating in full circle mode.

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