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» ■ 1 H - state Battalion/Pas May 7, II Red China selling oilfield equipment Warped By Scott McCullat United Press International HOUSTON — The mainland Chinese, Communists in- Ken’s Automotive 421 S. Main — Bryan 822-2823 “A Complete Automotive Service Center” * Brakes McPherson Tune-Ups Clutches < Struts Front End Parts Replacement Standard Transmission Repairs All American Cars VW-Datsun-Honda Toyota (Master Card & VISA Accepted) terested in competing for export business in the capitalist West, are showing oilfield equipment for sale at the giant Offshore Technology Conference for the first time ever. A spokesman said Wednes day one Chinese concern, EES- CO Inc., has established a ware house in Houston for oil pump ing units made in the People’s Republic of China. “We began exporting pump ing units to the United States in 1980 through a middleman, but have only recently decided to market directly in this country,” EESCO Vice President M.S. Shu said. Shu, who talks a lot like an American salesman, said the firm can “offer our units to U.S. companies at a price that is sev eral thousand dollars lower per unit than comparable units from other countries.” FINEST OPTICAL QUA.HT'* DISTORTlOM FREE LENSES . WHOLE LARTH PROVISION COMPANY , 105 Boyett 846-8794 J He said several EESCO pumping units have been instal led in oilfields in Oklahoma and Texas, including one recently sold to Conoco for an oilfield near Dallas. He said his organi zation hopes to sell 50 to 60 more units during OTC. “We think we can capture a portion of the U.S. market be cause we work very hard and have very strict quality control, and because we can be very com petitive,” Shu said. “We have relatively low labor costs and we also don’t expect to make a big profit right away.” The American Petroleum In stitute recently certified EES- CO’s units as good enough in quality for use in API members’ operations. Shu said the units are made at EESCO’s Baoji petroleum machinery manufacturing plant in Shaanxi, China. Shu said the United States is their only fore ign market so far, but he said the organization hopes to move into South America. “We have many more pro ducts in China we would like to export, and will be doing a lot more as we learn about the busi ness community,” Shu said. Shu said EESCO’s plant cur rently produces about 100 pumping units annually but ex pects to expand to meet market demand. OTC, billed as the world’s largest annual convention, in cludes exhibits that fill the Astrodome, the Astrohall, Astroarena and surrounding parking lots with products and services of 2,500 firms from 24 nations. PAUL, THIS TEm PAPER IS COnPLETEY CRUSHING A1£; I a/eed a real pearl of WI5P0/A FRO/A m BEST FRIEND... FROGS IS UGLIER THAN DOGS." HOW'S THAT? HA, //A, Y\A,M4, PERFECT 1 . ARISTOTLE LIVE! ! United Pre bbock buyin] ap sources Enzyme may help dissolve blood clots, doctor says dieting rev United Press International HOUSTON — A cardiologist believes he can reverse some damage caused by heart attacks by giving patients with chest E ains an enzyme to dissolve lood clots before they kill heart muscle. “It is almost like a chance for a second go around,” said Dr. Lance Gould, director of car diology at the University of Texas Medical School and staff member at Hermann Hospital, Wednesday. Gould said that immediately removing clots allows blood to be pumped into the oxygen- starved heart muscle to keep it alive. Rather than treat the compli cations caused by heart attacks, Gould treats one of the causes of heart attacks — clots. He’s been the treatment for 18 Gould said many attacks occur when an artery, already partially blocked by a fatty chloresterol plaque, becomes completely closed when a blood clot moves into the artery. He explained that by releas ing a small amount of the en zyme streptokinase directly into the clogged heart artery through cardiac catheterization — a tube into the vessel — usual ly the clot will dissolve immedi ately. Blood will then begin flowing through the vessel to feed the heart muscle. The heart is not back to nor mal, however, because the pla que — the buildup that led to the clot — remains. But Gould said bypass surgery can be done soon afterwards to replace the clog ged arteries with vessels grafted from the leg. By dissolving the clot within 18 hours after chest pains start, a sign of a heart attack, and allow ing the blood to circulate again, the heart muscle will be saved and scar tissue will not form. “Longevity is associated with the amount of scar tissue on the heart and its pumping action,” Gould said. “The less scar tissue, the better the heart will func tion.” Gould said a normal heart pumps approximately 50 per cent of the blood in its chamber with each contraction. Hearts in patients who have had only bypass surgery follow ing a heart attack pump about 32 percent. But the pumping capacity in hearts after both treatments is about 45 percent, Gould said. Presently 111 patients have had the procedure done at Her mann Hospital by Gould or Dr. Richard Smalling. Other re- mfcharges isumer unc nt dause, ids. Although 1 lling ui elves m nse for provides jigh this , . , . ■ dause, search is under way in lj vers i t y eo sachusetts, Virginia andK g j on j fornia. Btilities ir Gould said he was introriW^^j m to the use of the enzymeinlB, n< f,] patients by a German plnL uS sup p] Dr. Peter Rentrop. ■; f | “xhi Streptokinase is not in isirable. Bu has been used for manyynmnent tht help dissolve clots and adhtiRs to av< in other parts of the bodi p rate utilit The Food and DrugAdrJ\yj t h the tration has not approve:L S( . j n pl ac procedure for the gener. ^ re utilities lie, but the work done by i Ujlated rav is under the auspices offl^aid som Approval by the federalgoiL^entingt ment is expected in anothetBons impc and a hall. Bnissions. “It will be another 18niiJ“if onere g before we are fairly secun ^ n0 iny mei knowing whether the comli|t ec i sector tion of streptokinase and bBso profit surgery improves survival,’Kj to tht said. DON’T FORGET! FREE PHONE CALLS TO MOM! 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