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FILE NAME Bechtel BECH DATE 1953 Nov DOC BECH009 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Trade Journal Article 23-98 17:15 213 282 0473 P.03 259 : 757 11/1953 11/1953 . Bechtel Will Design and Construct It * * * * * * OF THE largest and most signifi- - Earl Nichols Returns cant refinery developments in recent years was announced late in September F. 5. Clulow Vice President in charge of To Industrial Senior Vice President Jerome Doolan manufacturing Shell Oil Company has recently announced the return to the It is Shell's new re~actyto serve the Industrial Division of Earl E. Nichols Pacific Northwest market to be construct- ed at Anacortes Washington on the shores of Puget Sound Engineering procurement and con- - Shell struction has announced will be by Bechtel Corporation The project is a ma- who as Vice President for Constructora Bechtel 5. A. has spent the last two years as Project Manager on the Orinoco job Eark left the Industrial Division to han- dle this South American assignment and will return to the Division as Manager of 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- . jor one every respect and a notable addition to Relinery Division work in _ progress Activity is now under way in the its construction forces Earl's last big project before leaving for the Orinoco job was the construction of tion In announcing the sale President S. D. Bechtel said that Somastic Pipe Coating engineering section and refinery construc- tion is preparing for the initial field work growth The new relinery reflects the of demand for Shell products in the Northwest and the continuous availability supply of a Canadian crude oil which will cross the border through a lateral of the Trans Mountain Oil Pipe Line ^ na recent statement W. McOmic Shell's Pacific Coast Refinery Coordinator said that clearing of the acre site will begin shortly continue into 1914 Actual field construction of the refinery units will start at that time Shell's Anacortes Refinery will have a capacity of 30,000 barrels per day Major -components -components will be a crude oil fractionat- + ing unit a platformer and a catalytic cracker : _ The crude unit and scheduled for completion of 1955 and the cat platformer are by the middle cricker and re- maining units by the end of 1933 The first units will go into operation before the entire refinery is completed It is expected that production will begin in the summer of 1935 the 23,000,000 Lever Brothers Plant in Los Angeles His varied experience in all waterfront shipyard types of construction including copper replants power plants railroads and developments s liquid chlorine plant and the mechanical design of alkylation plants has eminently fitted Earl for the post of No. 1 man in Industrial the Division activi- ties Work on the Orinoco project which tremendous was of development development of development scope and included the complete facilities at Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar as well as 90 miles of railroad and highway connect ing the two is close to fruition and Earl tells us that ore will be shipped starting the of the early part of January 1954 graduate is a of University Colorado sa sa Civil Engineer and has stacked up almost thirty years of leader descripton ship in construction activities of all description The Industrial Division con- siders itself most fortunate to have Earl filling its important spot GenerGaenelral General Construction Manager W. H. Gerhardt Elected had been placed in the competent hands of a progressive firm that has had friendby relations with Bechtel interests for more than twenty years Sornastic Pipe Coating operations are | mare in keeping with those of American Pipe and + Construction Compan^ than those of Bechtel Corporation he said It is our belief that under this new arrangement Somastic will be handled over a broader area because of American's many aperating plants in the West and the services which they plan to make avail- able J. S. Connell general manager will remain for ^ 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 Vice President of C.B.S.A. London and Aden Joppa Back at Work + Work on the 195,000,000 Joppa Ilk- nois steam electric station for Electric Energy Incorporated was resumed on osOctober 12th after a labor dispute shut: down that started 28 days before Based on a petition of the National Labor Rela- Board Federal District Court Judge #Fred #Fred L. Wham of East St. Louis Illinois issued a temporary restraining order en- Wilton H. Gerhardt a veteran of Bechtel foreign service has been elected Vice President of Constructors Bechtel S. A. according to an announcement by $ D. Bechtel He ukes over an Manager as Project Manager in Venezuela in Venezuela Orinoco mining Job succeeding Earl Nichols who Job returned to the Industria Division of Bechtel Corporation Now completing his second year on the mine and port project Will Gerhardt's election cli maves a tareer largely devoted w fostign work since taking his fall overseas jah in 1939 appropriately with the W. A. Bechtel C.- in ! Major domestic and foreign con Senior Vice President V. G. Keinie Hindmarsh left San Francisco by sir 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 London and at jobsite Heinie has directed important stateside activities of the A. I. the Joining striking union from picketing Immediately all workers commenced to re at present Project Manager Al Columbia Steel expantion at Pittsburg nis Pomeroy 1950-52 sad the Ku wait and Anance developmenti in the Middle Ex International Bechtel Inc. 1947-30 His O. C. job from San Francisco He plans to spend the month of November at Little Aden Mr. Hindmarsh now a seasoned Orselli reports there are over 1,000 itsonsiblites for effective we of new itssonsibilities will provide an even great- cy the his his abilities globe trotter accompanied her husband x CH 1782