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C.A. Tomassoni Joins Designers & Planners In Design/Economics Post
Carlos A. Tomassoni has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director, ship design and marine economics. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval architects and marine engineers with offices in New York,
Jackup Griffin-Alexander VII Outfitted, Starts Drilling In Gulf Of Mexico
The mobile offshore drilling unit Griffin- Alexander VII departed from its final outfitting location at Sabine Pass, Texas, recently and went to its first drilling site off the Louisiana coast in Vermillion Block Number 292 to drill for Shell Oil Company.
ODECO Elects Kilpatrick Executive Vice President
James L, Kilpatrick, a veteran of more than a quarter century of offshore oil and gas and contract drilling operations, has been elected executive vice president of Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO). Hugh J. Kelly, ODECO president and chief executive officer, said Mr.
Levingston And Asmar Deliver First Drill Rig Of A New Class
Levingston Shipbuilding Company of Orange, Texas, a subsidiary of Ashland Oil, Inc., and Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Asmar of Chile recently delivered the first Class 011-C jackup drilling rig. The customer, Diamond M Drilling Company, is a
AIMS Elects Thomas B. Crowley Board Chairman
A key West Coast maritime executive who is nationally and internationally known in the tug and barge industry has ibeen elected chairman of the board of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS). He is Thomas B. Crowley, president and board chairman of Crowley Maritime Corporation,
Southern Natural And IOT Sign Interstate Purchase Agreement
An agreement for Southern Natural Resources, Inc. to purchase Interstate and Ocean Transport Company and its affiliated companies, which own and operate the largest U.S. independent fleet of coastal tank barges and tugs, has been signed by Southern Natural and IOT Corporation of Philadelphia,
OFFSHORE RESURGENCE BEGINS
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Last March at a meeting of financial analysts in New Orleans, Hugh J. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO), forecast a turnaround for the offshore drilling industry by early
Browning Named Contracts And Sales Vice President For Sonat Offshore Drilling
As part of the recent consolidation of the Executive Marketing and Contracts and Sales Departments, Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc. of Houston named J. Robert Browning to the position of vice president-contracts and sales, a position that has been vacant for some time.
Centrico Forms New Mineral Oil Group Headed By Lohmeyer
Rising demand for Westfalia oil purifying centrifuges has spurred the formation of a "Mineral Oil Group" at Centrico, Inc., it was recently announced. According to Wend Wendenburg, executive vice-president of Centrico: "With oil prices high and slated to go higher,
Lincoln Warren Named ODECO Vice President Oil & Gas Exploration
Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, 1600 Canal Street, New Orleans, La. 70160, has announced the appointment of Lincoln E. Warren as vice president-oil and gas exploration to spearhead its effort to uncover new oil and gas reserves. "Lincoln