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Resolve Expands in Singapore

Resolve Salvage & Fire (Asia) expanded its presence in Singa- pore with the addition of Ajay

Prasad, Operations and Technical

Director. Prasad joins Resolve’s

Managing Director- Singapore,

Anuj Sahai, in the company’s Sin- gapore office at #34-11 Centen- nial Towers, 3 Temasek Avenue,

Singapore 039190. In addition to emergency and crisis response services, Resolve provides con- sulting services for operational and safety excellence to the inter- national shipping and cruise in- dustries, worldwide. Resolve’s

Singapore operation delivers a va- riety of services including: hands- on regional support for shipping interests in Asia; expert advice and counsel on the new United

States Coast Guard’s OPA-90 re- quirements.

Donjon-Smit Relocates Office

Donjon-SMIT, an OPA-90 Alliance, has moved its principle office to 909 North Washington Street, Suite 300, Alexandria, Va., 22314 USA. The relocation to larger facilities was effected in order to support addi- tional staff required to meet the new U.S. Coast Guard

Salvage and Marine Firefighting regulations. All phone numbers, including the emergency number, remain the same. The main office number and 24/7 emergency number is 1-703-299-0081. The fax number is 1-703- 299-0085. The e-mail address is info@donjon- smit.com. Paul Hankins, Vice President for Operations, is Donjon-SMIT’s office director.

Titan Establishes Salvage Base in Australia

Titan Salvage continues to expand globally with the recent addition of a new salvage base and depot in Aus- tralia. The facility located in Cairns, Queensland is strategically located to respond to marine and environ- mental disasters threatening the Great Barrier Reef and other marine casualties throughout the Australasia and

South West Pacific regions. The new Australian com- pany will operate under the name Titan Maritime (Aus- tralia) Pty Ltd. Titan also operates a fully staffed and equipped salvage facility in nearby Singapore. www.titansalvage.com

Schoolenberg New VP, Global R&D at Wärtsilä

Trudy Schoolenberg, PhD (Tech), 51, has been ap- pointed Vice President, Global R&D in Wärtsilä Indus- trial Operations as of August 15, 2010. Schoolenberg will be responsible for global Research and Develop- ment of the Wärtsilä products. She has a successful ca- reer in Shell in several leading positions with strategic, operational and technology experience since 1989.

Zash Joins Bouchard

Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. said that Matt Zash has joined its team in the capacity of business develop- ment and sales. Zash joins Bouchard after graduating from Duke University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Hofstra University in 2008 with a master’s degree in Education.

AVEVA Announces New Center of Excellence

AVEVA opened a new oil and gas Center of Excel- lence for Operations Integrity Management (OIM) in

Stavanger, Norway.

Noreq Group opens Office in USA

Noreq opened a new US office in Houston this week. At the same time as we open our US office,

Noreq currently is establishing an office in Brazil, in collaboration with Bergen Group Dreggen.

Wellington de Barros has been ap- pointed to the Brazil office and will commence his activities for

DreggenNoreq do Brasil in Sep- tember 1st.

Royal Lankhorst Euronete Enters Brazil

The Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group announces the acquisition of a new industrial unit in Rio de Janeiro –

Brazil. This new industrial unit will be used for produc- tion of deep water mooring ropes for the oil & gas plat- forms, production of maritime ropes for the local market and - at a later stage - also for production of buoyancy materials for the oil & gas industry.

Reeve Joins Robert Allan

Robert Allan Ltd. announced that Henry Reeve, P.E. (BASc,

UBC Mech 95, Masters, NA and

Offshore Engineering, Berkley ’97) has joined RAL as a Senior

Naval Architect. His areas of ex- pertise include hydrodynamics and motions, mooring, resistance predictions, stability (ship and offshore), model testing, CFD analysis, regulatory and classification issues, and vessel survey. He has worked on the naval architecture aspects of CNG and LNG Ter- minals and Ships, SWATHs, Ro-Ro Ferries, MODU’s,

FPSOs and FSOs, SPARs, TLPs and Offshore Current

Turbines.

Hatteland, Emerson Process Reach Deal

Emerson Process Management has chosen Hatteland

Display to provide type-approved computers and dis- plays for their DeltaV digital automation system.

Vigor Marine Tacoma Opens

Vigor Marine completed the asset purchase of Marine

Industries Northwest, Inc. (MINI) in Tacoma, WA. The transaction closed on August 9, 2010 and Vigor Marine officially began vessel repair and conversion operations the same day. Key points of contact for the company are

Ajay

Anuj

Bernardo

Reeve