MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS SiEST COAST SHIPYARDS The Maritime Prepositioning lip, Pfc Eugene A. Obregon, Built By Notional Steel & Shipbuilding U.S. Navy Ship Overhaul Market JULY 16, 1985 - An Update - (SEE PAGE 4) INTRODUCING THE EPOCH MARK D SERIES A new era in product oil carrier design. Hitachi Zosen has developed the EPOCH MARK n series which has a unique structure not found on conventional ship designs. Revolutionary in concept, the MARKII incorporates a unidirectional girder system combined with a complete double hull structure. While a ship's hull is customarily designed with a grillage of longitudinal and transverse members for strength, this system uses only longitudinal members in a double hull to provide sufficient strength. This unidirectional girder system results in unprecedented structural simplicity and completely flush surfaced cargo tank interior. MARKII product oil carriers provide unrivaled advantages in performances over more conventional designs. The EPOCH MARK n series is available in 40, 60 and 80 thousands dwt designs. And has won the approval of leading classification societies (ABS, BV, LR, NK, NV). At present The Superior Performance of the EPOCH MARK n Series: many worldwide patents are under application. Conventional EPOCH MARK Hitachi Zosen is also expanding this new structural system for the development of combination cargo carriers such as PROBO or Tank configuration OBO carriers other than oil tankers. 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OMNI- THRUSTER JT-70010 AMT. —A Review— HORIZONTAL. 350 HP. DC ELECTRIC DRIVE. PAGE 14 Publishers: JOHN E. O'MALLEY Navy Overhaul CHARLES P. O'MALLEY Market Editorial Director: CHARLES P. O'MALLEY PAGE 24 Editor: ROBERT WARE Senior Editor: THOMAS H. PHILLIPS Associate Editor: JOHN R. SNYDER ODECO Will Buy Two Editorial Coordinator: LILIAN IRVINE Jackup Rigs From Salen International Editor: ROBIN F. BURNETT, MRINA, MNI, London, England For Total Of $33.5 Million Advertising Sales Director: JOHN C. O'MALLEY Advertising Sales Manager: LINDA NIEP0K0J Ocean Drilling & Exploration Production Manager: ROGER S. STABIN 360° Maneuvering, Company (ODECO) of New Orleans Circulation Manager: M. SOTTILE Slow-Speed Propulsion, has announced an agreement to pur- Ice Management! chase two independent-leg, canti- levered jackup drilling rigs from Advertising Circulation and Sales Offices • Thrusts Underway Salen Energy and its partners. The 118 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010 » Thrusts While Pitching two units, capable of operating in Telephone (212) 477-6700 > No Reversing Impeller to Change Directions water depths to 250 feet, most re- * Minimum Buoyancy Loss cently were employed in the Gulf of Mexico by Salen Offshore Company » Smaller Hull Penetration of Houston. » Fuel Savings REPRESENTATIVES The rigs, Salenergy V and Salen- ergy VI, were built by Swedeyards' U.S.A. ROBERT HAWLEY OMNITHRUSTER DOES IT ALL! Houston. Texas Thrusts with nozzles out of water in rough seas: Gotaverken Arendal of Sweden in GARY LINDENBERGER 1980 and 1981, respectively, at a MIKE SULLIVAN vertical systems only. 11777 Katy Freeway, Suite 155 No protrusions ... no change in hull shape. total cost of approximately $71 mil- Houston, TX 77079 lion. The purchase price for both Telephone (713) 870-0470 Small nozzles reduce drag . save fuel and units will be $33.5 million. Italy MR. VITTORIO F. NEGRONE passage time. Ediconsult Internazionale Hugh J. Kelly, ODECO presi- Piazza Fontane Marose, 3-16123 Genova, Italy Easily retrofitted. dent and chief executive officer, Telephone: (010) 543.659-268.334-268.513 said the purchase of the two rigs Telex: 211197 EDINT I reflects the company's long-term Scandinavia MR. STEPHAN R G ORN AB Stephan R. G. Orn strategy of expanding its drilling Bo* 184, S-271 00 Ystad, Sweden fleet during depressed periods of Telephone 0411-184 00 offshore activity, rather than in Telex: 33335 Orn S Micro-Processor Control Germany MR. WOLF O. STORCK System. Model 1200A boom times. with gyro input . holds Schiffahrtswerbung Karl-Otto Storck vessel's heading. System Stahlwiete 7, 2000 Hamburg 50, also accepts compatible Federal Republic of Germany NAV AIDS lore aft and Pace To Replace Lewis Telephone 040/850 0071 slow speed propulsion and positioning As Chairman And CEO United MR. MICHAEL J. DAMSELL Kingdom Euromedia, Ltd. JT PV1100-1000HP P.O. Box 122, Haywards Heath MODULI! THRUSTER For General Dynamics MODULAR THRUSTER SYSTEM . West Sussex RH16 1YF, England OMNITHRUSTER ship control systems* utilize Telephone: 0444-416845 individual module thrusters of up to 3000 HP in David S. Lewis, chairman and France MR. ROBERT BROEKMAN any combination to produce desired forward or chief executive officer of General Netherlands American Publishers Representatives Inc. lateral net thrust Prime movers for the Dynamics Corporation, has an- Belgium L'Avant Seine Modular Thruster System may be electric, 4 Rue Robert De Flers 75015 Paris, France hydraulic or diesel powered in conjunction with nounced that Stanley C. Pace has Telephone: 609.95.95 manual/automatic or integrated control networks. joined the company as vice chair- Telex: 270560 ADVANTAGES FOR LARGE VESSELS . man, and will become chairman and Korea MR. CHRIS MAENG • Incremental Thrust Capability chief executive officer when Mr. IPR Int'l PR, INC. • Multiple Module Reliability Lewis retires, but not later than Yongsan • Easily Retrofitted or Installed in New January 1, 1986. P.O. Box 100 Construction Seoul, Korea Telephone: 273-7765 • Minimum Maintenance Mr. Pace had been vice chairman * Covered by U. S. Patents; of TRW Inc., from which he has Telex: MOCNDM K23231 Foreign Patents Pending Japan MR. TOSHIO EGUSA retired. He has been employed in Publinetwork, Inc. 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