Elliott Dubuisson has been appointed assistant manager-Central Offshore Engineering, effective immediately, it was announced recently by Robert C. Shields, vice president in charge of Producing-East for Texaco U.S.A. In his new assignment, Mr. Dubuisson will be located in New Orleans, and will be responsible for supervising the design of production facilities for use in waters outside the territorial United States.

Mr. Dubuisson graduated from Mississippi State University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and joined Texaco that same year as a civil engineer in New Orleans. He served with Texaco Overseas Petroleum Company Nigeria in Lagos as a construction engineer from 1974 until 1976 when he was named petroleum engineer there. In 1977, he was appointed senior engineer with Dansk Boreselskab A/S (DANBOR) in Copenhagen.