Exhibit 24.1

                            McMoRan OIL & GAS Co.

                            Certificate of Secretary
                            ________________________

   I, Michel C. Kilanowski, Jr.,  Secretary of McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. (the

"Corporation"), a Delaware corporation, do hereby certify that the following

resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation at a

meeting held on January 31, 1995, and that such resolution has not been 

amended, modified or rescinded and is in full force and effect:


              RESOLVED, that any report, registration statement or
              other form filed on behalf of this corporation pursuant
              to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, or any
              amendment to any such report, registration statement or
              other form, may be signed on behalf of any director or 
              officer of this corporation pursuant to a power of 
              attorney executed by such director or officer.

   IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name and the seal of the

Corporation this 19th day of March, 1996.

                                              /s/ Michael C. Kilanowski, Jr.
                                              _______________________________
                                                  Michael C. Kilanowski, Jr.
                                                  Secretary