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Donation Helps Fund LNG Training

SUNY Maritime College received a corporate dona- tion of $10,000 from ConocoPhillips Marine to advance Maritime's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) training and educational program. Maritime will make upgrades to its liquid cargo simulator, increase the number of student stations within the simulator and purchase software for use in LNG tanker simulations.

The program will also be expanded to include product tanker and crude oil tanker operations and training.

Anthony Palmiotti '79, acting chairman of the department of marine transportation (MT) and director of continuing education says this donation is signifi- cant "for it provides the seed money we need to devel- op LNG training and curriculum for our undergradu- ates, as well as for our adult continuing education stu- dents."

A target date of fall, 2006 is slated to launch the pro- gram. Captain George P. McShea, Jr., fleet manager,

LNG operations for ConocoPhillips in Houston said that "the shortage of qualified LNG mariners due to the rapid expansion globally of the LNG shipping indus- try, prompted our company to make this philanthropic investment at Maritime. We want to ensure that

American mariners are a viable option to meet

ConocoPhillips' future mariner needs as our LNG ship- ping ventures increase around the world."

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