Oil Corporation

  • Harmon F. Hoffmann has been appointed vice president and general manager, Marketing, for Mobil Oil Corporation's U.S. Marketing and R e f i n i n g D i v i s i o n , succeeding William V. Butler, who has elected early retirement at the end of this year.

    Mr. Hoffmann, who since 1976 has served as general manager, Marine Transportation, Middle East Transportation and Supply, will be succeeded by Walter C.

    Mink Jr. Mr. Mink rejoins Mobil Oil as a vice president after serving as president of Seabrokers, Inc., and as a director of Seabrokers' parent company, H.

    Clarkson and Co., Ltd., London.

    Mr. Butler joined Mobil in 1944 and held a number of marketing positions before being named general manager, West Coast Division, in 1966. Two years later, he was appointed general manager, Resale Marketing. He was promoted to vice president and general manager in 1976.

    Mr. Hoffmann joined Mobil in 1954. Before a transfer to the Marine Transportation Department in 1972 as manager, Operations and Charting, he was general manager, Planning and Fi- nancial Analysis for the then North American Division.

    In 1964, Mr. Mink joined Mobil Oil as manager, Scheduling, Marine Department. A few months later, he was named manager, Traffic. In 1968, he joined Seabrokers as executive vice president, chief operating officer and director. In 1976, he was elected president and chief executive officer, retaining responsibilities as the company's chief operating officer.

  • and executive vice president-general manager, respectively, for American Heavy Lift Shipping Company (AHL), a jointly owned venture of Gulf Oil Corporation and Hansa Lines of Bremen, West Germany. In addition to his AHL responsibilities, Mr. Wyman, who joined Gulf in January 1977, will continue as

  • after several years as executive vice president of Skaarup Shipping Corporation, and 23 years with Exxon. He will continue to develop Skaarup Oil Corporation's historic businesses as well as explore oil and gas tanker shipping opportunities. Mr. Gray is also currently vice chairman of the National

  • steps toward ensuring maximum protection of marine engines and efficient operation of the vessels. To aid in the selection process, Gulf Oil Corporation has published a guide to its complete line of marine products. Called "Gulf Inland & Coastal Marine Lubricants," the brochure includes a

  • Arndt presented a paper titled "Shrinking Fuel Consumption." In his presentation Mr. Arndt, who is manager of marine and railroad sales for Mobil Oil Corporation, commented on a number of ways to conserve fuel when operating towboats on the inland waterways. "The simplest way to save fuel is to slow

  • Gulf Trading & Transportation Company (GT&T), a division of Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., responsible for marine transportation and the supply, sales and trading of foreign crude oil, will transfer its headquarters and the bulk of its operations to Houston, Texas. Herbert I. Goodman

  • announced that a lawsuit has been filed by his organization, together with Chevron USA, Inc., Atlantic Richfield Company, Exxon Corporation, Gulf Oil Corporation, International Ocean Transport Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, and Union Oil Company of California in the Federal District Court of Anchorage

  • miles off Grand Isle, La., will be operated by Loop Inc. This firm is a consortium consisting of Ashland Oil, Inc., Marathon Oil Company, Murphy Oil Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Texaco Inc., and Union Oil Company of California. The first phase of construction will cost about $350 million. The finished

  • . "Supplementary Analytical Procedures for Evaluation Fuel Handling Characteristics of Heavy Distillate Gas Turbine Fuels," E.G. Barry, Mobil Oil Corporation, Paulsboro, N.J., and S.P. Cauley, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, N.Y. "A General Review of Lubrication Systems for Marine Gas Turbines

  • to England as offshore manager on the Thistle Field and was later involved in other assignments, including consultant to the British National Oil Corporation. Oceaneering is one of the world's largest diving and underwater construction contractors, offering services and equipment in all phases

  • Mobil Oil Corporation has awarded a contract for a video entertainment system on each of its nine U.S.-flag ships to Marine Video International (MVI), a subsidiary of the Bell and Howell Company. Each ship will receive 120 hours of prerecorded video entertainment per year, which is equivalent to

  • Kenneth L. Hawthorne, formerly director-equal employment opportunity for Gulf Oil Corporation, has been named vice president- human resources for Gulf Trading & Transportation Company (GT&T). He succeeds H.G. Carpenter, who has been appointed general manager-international marine fuel sales for GT&T

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  • MR Feb-24#40 Images Seaspan Corporation/Foreship
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    Images Seaspan Corporation/Foreship With plans to have a full-scale test engine running on am- age it'll be similar to LNG.” Looking at the engine makers and monia in early 2024, the company said it expects to hold its de- their progress, Brindley is diplomatic in saying that there is no livery timeline

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    a testing program that will the fact that container ports are close to cities, and [all of the study aspects such as heat-release, ignition, safety, pilot-oil people that will be] working on board the vessel. We need to energy fraction, NOx and N2O emissions.” make sure that everybody's safe,” said Brindley

  • MR Feb-24#38 TECH FEATURE
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    TECH FEATURE Ammonia and the 15,00 A project initiated by Seaspan Corporation and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping (MMMCZCS) has set out to develop a design for a large 15,000-TEU ammonia-fueled container vessel. Image Seaspan Corporation/Foreship By Greg Trauthwein orking with

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    EAL AND STERN TUBE DAMAGES STACKING not forget any oil leak, big or small, can be catastrophic to the marine environment and marine life, with some EALs found to THE DECKS be only slightly less damaging than the phased-out traditional WITH BEST-IN-CLASS MARINE oils,” said VP of Business Development

  • MR Feb-24#32  
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    the incidents analyzed by Gard were attributed to ghost ? shing gear that enter the stern tube seal area causing seawater to contaminate the lubrication oil. A 2022 study by CSIRO scientists estimated that the amount of longline ? shing gear littering the ocean each year can circle the Earth more than

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    EAL AND STERN TUBE DAMAGES “Our recommendations “A good bearing are simple. Please design is have good control over important.” your oil quality in the primary barrier, the aft – Øystein Åsheim Alnes sealing system,” Head of section for Propulsion and Steering, – Arun Sethumadhavan DNV

  • MR Feb-24#30  often delivered with mineral oil then converted 
to EALs)
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    started experiencing bearing damage, with many of them having lubricant contamination problems. The affected vessels were often delivered with mineral oil then converted to EALs and subsequently suffered sealing problems. DNV rules support the use of mineral lubricants, EALs and water lubrication and

  • MR Feb-24#20  
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    ? oating energy business that leverages the skills and tion vessels. We are forecasting some potential supply chain lessons learnt from deepwater oil & gas projects into the bottlenecks as a result of the increased activity. emerging ? oating wind segment, with measures including: To show how ?

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    Intelatus Floating Production White Paper. Floating Production – A growing segment in transition © AdobeStock_Dolores Harvey The specialized deepwater oil & gas and ? oating offshore wind segments will share many of the same stakeholders and supply chains, competing for increasingly scarce resources

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    Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M s the world increasingly HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor becomes a geopolitical New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 quagmire, with Russia’s Awar in the Ukraine soon CEO John C. O’Malley entering year three and disparate

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    NO.2 / VOL. 86 / FEBRUARY 2024 26 Photo on this page and on the Cover: Courtesy ARC 22 Marine Power: The Future is Now Departments Matt Hart, Wabtec Corporation, offers insights on how the megatrends of decar- bonization, energy transition and autonomy drive engine innovations. 4 Authors & Contributors By

  • MN Feb-24#40 Vessels
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    Vessels HOS Warhorse & HOS Wild Horse shipyard construction contracts were wrongfully termi- nated. Gulf Island and Hornbeck settled in October 2023, clearing way for the builds to be completed by another yard. Eastern secured the contract to complete the builds from Zurich American Insurance Company

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    simulation systems to be a much safer and more effective form of training.” Burry said the company’s simulators are deployed glob- ally, from ships and oil rigs offshore to land-based installa- tions in training academies and elsewhere. In addition to building the simulators, Virtual Marine owns and operate

  • MN Feb-24#31  the premium, because the 
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    rates, and these impacts are felt more strongly in the U.S. than they are in Europe, Møller said. “Now we are paying the premium, because the oil market is high. But going further down, probably oil market is going to take a turn again and our business will become equally cheap, because we

  • MN Feb-24#30  due to a strengthened offshore oil and gas sector. The 
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    vessels (OSV), which have seen their charter rates [they] only need it for two or three. . . The sustainable ves- rise due to a strengthened offshore oil and gas sector. The sel ownership perspective is revenue certainty and knowing cyclic up and down of oil and gas markets directly affects 30 |

  • MN Feb-24#20 Column   
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    Column Washington Watch Will 2024 Settle the Turbulence of US Offshore Wind? By Jeff R. Vogel, Shareholder, Cozen O’Connor’s Transportation & Trade Group There is no denying that “commercial conditions driven by in? ation, interest that 2023 was a challenging year for the U.S. offshore wind rates and

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    Insights to the organization’s team of more than 75 expert instruc- without paying that price in blood and oil.’ They get to do tors. “We bring in the specialists who know the material things they would not normally get to do, and then they can through and through.” re? ne those skills in what we know

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    of port safety at the Hampton Roads Ship- experience in the global energy, maritime and offshore ping Association, where his role covers training, project oil and gas sectors. management and labor relations throughout the port. 6 | MN February 202

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  • MT Jan-24#59  to conduct product or 
offshore oil & gas, renewables, defense)
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    London every two years, will come together across a wide range of sectors, including more than 100 companies are expected to conduct product or offshore oil & gas, renewables, defense, maritime security, service launch activity. Exhibitors introducing new solutions marine science, ports, aquaculture and

  • MT Jan-24#54  in the ? oating offshore oil 
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    to ? oating wind, there are many long-estab- tional ? xed-bottom units, and conservative esti- lished technologies and companies in the ? oating offshore oil Tmates call for 300 GW of ? oating offshore wind by and gas industry that will translate to ? oating wind. However, 2050, according to Gazelle CFO

  • MT Jan-24#52  Center Servers Using Immersion Oil Cool-
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    Electronic and Photonic Micro- leadership positions in a variety of systems 6. “Improved Ef? ciency & Reliability for Data Center Servers Using Immersion Oil Cool- IEEE and ASTM Committees. ing”; Cheryl Tulkoff, Chris Boyd; Electronic Systems Technologies Conference, May 2021 52 January/February 2024 MTR

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    be instru- T into the abyss to conduct critical tasks in indus- mental in the installation, maintenance, and repair of renew- tries ranging from offshore oil and gas to marine research and able energy infrastructure. underwater construction. Work Class ROVs and other ROVs • Advanced Materials and Durability: