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48 MN June 2011 Mike Ray Dixon Passes Away Mike Ray Dixon, 67, of Katy, Texas, passed away April 25. Dixon won numerous national awards as an edi- tor of corporate magazines and annu- al reports when he worked for Fortune 500 companies during a 40- year career as a public relations offi- cial. These companies included Phillips Petroleum, Kerr-McGee, Williams Companies, Texas Oil & Gas, Marathon Oil and U.S. Steel. Cornel Martin Departs WCI Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) President and CEO, Cornel Martin, has announced that he will depart the organization at the end of June. An executive search will begin to identify a successor. Cornel joined WCI with many years of experience in the mar- itime industry including years on Capitol Hill where he last served on the House Coast Guard and Navigation Subcommittee. Hume New W&O CEO, Guidry Advances in Pon W&O, supplier of marine valves, pipe, fittings, engineered products and valve automation systems, appointed Michael Hume as President and CEO. He has been serving as the company’s COO since 2009. Jack Guidry, former president and CEO of W&O, has been pro- moted to Senior VP of Pon and CEO of PVI, one of Pon’s American hold- ing companies, which owns W&O, DMC-Carter Chambers and AT Controls. Hatchell Joins DLBA Gordon Hatchell has joined Donald L. Blount and Associates, Inc. (DLBA), a naval architecture and marine engineering company. Previously, Hatchell served as Supervisor and Program Manager for the Special Projects Branch, Combatant Craft Department of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock (NSWCCD). VT Halter to Build 112-ft ATB Tug VT Halter Marine, Inc. announced a new contract to build a 112-ft ATB offshore tug for Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc. This tug will be similar to others built for Bouchard in previous years by Halter Marine. Measuring 112 ft by 35 ft by 17 ft, the 4,000 hp tug is classed by ABS as A1 Towing Vessel, Dual Mode, and will be equipped with an Intercon Coupler System. Construction of the vessel begins in June 2011 at VT Halter Marine’s Moss Point Marine facility in Escatawpa, Miss., with delivery expected in September 2012. The vessel will enter into Bouchard’s fleet service in New York, N.Y. Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Crowley Workers Reach 10 Million Hours The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) has announced that its work- force has achieved a major safety milestone: 10 million hours worked without an OSHA Day Away From Work Case (DAFWC). Of those hours, Crowley contributed towards working 20% of them, or two million hours, safely. This means that since June 2009, no TAPS worker, includ- ing the more than 225 Crowley employees, has been injured to the extent that they missed a day of work. For more than 30 years Crowley has provided tanker escort, response ship assist and vessel operations for TAPS operator Alyeska Pipeline Services Co. in Valdez, Alaska. The safety milestone is especially significant considering a majority of these employees work in the field and in environments with cold weather and heavy sea conditions. ABS Guidance For New Generation OSVs Increased sophistication within the offshore support vessel (OSV) market has prompted classification society ABS to develop standalone guidance for these more specialized yet multi- functional vessels. Newly developed criteria and relevant existing Rule PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Dixon Martin Hume HatchellGuidry Photo courtesy of POSH Semco Pte Ltd.
