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SHELL InlllHi:N 50,0u0-BA AnaaMieds (lehne/iu Bechtel Will Design and Construct it ONE OF the largest and most signifi cant refinery developments in recent years was announced late in September by Earl Nichols Returns To Industrial F. S. CIulow, Vice President in charge of Senior Vice President Jerome K. Doolan manufacturing, Shell Oil Company. has recently announced the return to the It is Shell's new refinery to serve the Industrial Division of Earl E. Nichols, Pacific Northwest market to be construct who, as Vice President for Constructors ed at Anacortes, Washington, on the Bechtel, S. A., has spent the last two years shores of Puget Sound. as Project Manager on the Orinoco job. Engineering, procurement and con Earl left the Industrial Division to han struction, Shell has announced, will be by dle this South American assignment and Bechtel Corporation. The project is a ma will return to the Division as Manager of jor one in every respect, and a notable its construction forces. addition to Refinery Division work in Earl's last big project before leaving for progress. Activity is now under way in the the Orinoco job was the construction of engineering section, and refinery construc the $25,000,000 Lever Brothers Plant in tion is preparing for the initial field work. Los Angeles. His varied experience in all The new refinery reflects the growth types of construction, including copper re of demand for Shell products in the duction plants, power plants, railroads, Northwest, and the continuous availability waterfront and shipyard developments, of a Canadian crude oil supply, which a liquid chlorine plant and the mechanical will cross the border through a lateral of design of alkylation plants has eminently the Trans Mountain Oil Pipe Line. fitted Earl for the post of No. 1 man in In a recent statement, R. W. McOmie, the Industrial Division construction activi Shell's Pacific Coast Refinery Coordinator, ties. Work on the Orinoco project, which said that clearing of the 700-acre site will was of tremendous scope and included the begin shortly and continue into mid-1954. development of complete facilities at Actual field construction of the refinery Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar as well as units will start at that time. 90 miles of railroad and highway connect Shell's Anacortes Refinery will have a ing the two, is close to fruition and Earl capacity of 50,000 barrels per day. Major tells us that ore will be shipped starting components will be a crude oil fractionat the early part of January, 1954. ing unit, a/platformer and a catalytic Earl is a graduate of the University of cracker./ --Ihe-crude unit and platformer are scheduled for completion by the middle of 1955, and the '`cat" cracker and re maining units by the end of 1955. The first units will go into operation before the entire refinery is completed. It Colorado as a Civil Engineer and has stacked up almost thirty years of leader ship in construction activities of all description. The Industrial Division con siders itself most fortunate to have Earl filling its all-iniportant spot as General Construction Manager. is expected that production will begin in the summer of 1955. W. H. Gerhardt Elected Vice President of C.B.S.A. Joppa Back at Work Work on the $195,000,000 Joppa, Illi nois steam electric station for Electric Energy, Incorporated, was resumed on October 12th after a labor dispute shut down that started 28 days before. Based on a petition of the National Labor Rela tions Board, Federal District Court Judge Fred L. Wham of East St. Louis, Illinois, issued a temporary restraining order en joining the striking union from picketing. Immediately all workers commenced to re turn and at present Project Manager A1 Orselli reports there are well over 1,000 men back on the job and working. Wilton H. Gerhardt, a veteran of Bechtel foreign service, has been elected Vice President of Constructora Bechtel, S. A., according to an announcement by S. D. Bechtel. He takes over as Project Manager on the Orinoco mining job in Venezuela, succeeding Earl Nichols' who has returned to the Industrial Division of Bcchtcl Corporation. Now completing his second year on the mine and port project, Will Gerhardt's election cli maxes a career largely devoted to foreign work since taking his first overseas job in 1939-- appropriately with the W. A. Bechtel Co. in Venezuela! Major domestic and foreign con tracts on which he has been active include the Columbia Steel expansion at Pittsburg. Califor nia (Bechtel-Pomeroy 1950-52), and the Ku wait and Aramco developments in the Middle East (International Bechtel, Inc., 1947-50). His new responsibilities will provide an even great er opportunity for the effective use of his abilities and experience. Somastic Pipe Coating Sold To Pipe Linings, Inc. The Somastic Pipe Coating operation has been sold to Pipe Linings, Inc., of Los Angeles, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Pipe and Construction Co. The move to discontinue the manufacture and application of pipe coating is in line with Bechtel Corporation's enlarged activities in the fields of engineering and construc tion. In announcing the sale, President S. D. Bechtel said that Somastic Pipe Coating had been placed in the competent hands of a progressive firm that has had friend ly relations with Bechtel interests for more than twenty years. "Somastic Pipe Coating operations are more in keeping with those of American Pipe and Construction Company than those of Bechtel Corporation," he said. "It is our belief that under this new ar rangement Somastic will be handled splendidly and Somastic will be available over a broader area because of American's many operating plants in the West and the services which they plan to make avail able." J. S. Connell, general manager, will re main for a period in an advisory capacity before returning to Bechtel Corporation. Austin S. Joy, general sales manager, moves over to Pipe Linings, Inc., as sales manager. "Heinie" Returns To London and Aden Senior Vice President V. G. "Heinie" Hindmarsh left San Francisco by air on October 7th. As Sponsoring Director of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company refinery, he returned to London after a week at Eastern Division offices in New York. Since early summer when he came "home" after an extended period in Lon don and at jobsite, "Heinie" has directed important stateside activities of the A. I. O. C. job from San Francisco. He plans to spend the month of November at Little Aden. Mrs. Hindmarsh, now a seasoned globe trotter, accompanied her husband overseas. 18