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Santa Fe Drilling

Names Aldo Zanier

Manager In Nigeria

Aldo M. Zanier has been pro- moted to manager of Santa Fe

Drilling Co. in Nigeria.

Mr. Zanier joined the company in 1972 as a staff drilling engineer in Orange, Calif., and transferred to Nigeria in April of this year as assistant zone manager.

He is an engineering graduate of Instituto Minerario in Italy, and has a master's degree in pe- troleum engineering from the

University of Houston.

Santa Fe has four rigs cur- rently operating in Nigeria, and is building a new swamp barge which will start work there early next year.

Manchester Orders Two

Additional Containerships

From Smith's Dock Co.

Smith's Dock Company Limited (a member of the Swan Hunter

Group), South Bank, Teesside,

England, has received an order from Manchester Liners Limited for two more container vessels for delivery in the first half of 1977.

The new vessels are designed to accommodate over eight hun- dred 20-foot containers and are fitted with sliding container divi- sions for easy conversion to ac- commodate 40-foot containers.

Provision has also been made for fitting up to thirty-five 40-foot refrigerated containers.

The vessels are powered by 7RND90 Sulzer machinery driv- ing a fixed bladed propeller at a loaded trial speed in excess of 20 knots.

Principal particulars of the vessels are: length between per- pendiculars, 525 feet; breadth, molded, 82 feet 6 inches; depth, 51 feet 6 inches, and 17,500 dead- weight tons at 30-foot draft.

These two latest ships will be the 12th and 13th in a series ordered from Smith's Dock for

Manchester Liners over the past few years. The previous tonnage consisted of four general cargo vessels; one general cargo vessel, which was converted to a con- tainership shortly after comple- tion ; and six fully containerized vessels, the last of which, the

Manchester Reward, is due for completion in the near future.

September 1, 1974

GHH Sterkrade To Build

Floating Dock For Brazil

GHH Sterkrade (Gutehoffnung- shutte Sterkrade Aktiengesell- schaft) has been commissioned by the Brazilian company Comercio,

Industria e Participacoes S.A.,

Rio de Janeiro, to build a floating dock of 20,000 tons lifting capa- city. The approximate measure- ments would be 705 feet length overall, a width of 115 feet, and an immersion depth measured above top of keel blocks of 31 feet.

The dock, which is to be launched in May of next year, can dock ships of up to 60,000 dwt.

The 36,000-ton dock Mar Joe, launched from GHH Sterkrade's dockyard in Nordenham-Blexen on the lower Weser at the begin- ning of May of this year, was de- livered to Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Baltimore after a successful trial docking on the 20th of July.

Libya Orders Tankers

From Swedish Shipyard

Libya has signed a 73-million- dinar contract with a Swedish shipbuilding firm for three 124,- 000-ton tankers.

The tankers are scheduled for delivery in 1976 to the Libyan

Shipping Corp. The corporation has sent students to Britain,

Greece and Egypt for training in engineering, electronics and navi- gation so they can run the tankers. 19

If we tried to tell you that packing of TEFLON* fiber was at least 4 times as good as the best conventional packing you would want proof.

Here's some proof. mmJ> sik

Aldo M. Zanier

About four years ago, the American

Oil Company tested packing of

TEFLON® TFE fluorocarbon fiber on their lake tanker operation. This operation transports petroleum products on a 10 month a year season.

Conventional valve packing was being replaced each season. A packing that lasted a full season was considered very good. \

Then they tried1

TEFLON fiber. The V packing of TEFLON fiber easily lasted the first season. Then it lasted the second season.

No one could believe it. So they pulled packing from some of the pumps and valves. It looked good so they left the rest as is. Packing of TEFLON fiber has lasted through the four year test period or about four times longer than the best conventional packing materials.

Performance like this is not unusual for packing of TEFLON fiber. In many tests

TEFLON fiber outperformed conventional

They said this new packing was good, but I'd never believe it'd be this good." materials 5,10 even 15 times.

Packing of TEFLON fiber comes in two basic forms ... soft and hard. The soft form is good for pressures up to 2500 psi and shaft surface speeds to 1200 fpm. The hard form can take pressure to 5000 psi and shaft speeds of 600 fpm. Both forms can operate from-400° to +550°F.

Both are highly resistant to virtually all industrial chemicals and fluids. Both meet

MIL-P-24396 (SHIPS) 15 Sept. 1970. Both can substantially reduce your pump and valve packing problems.

The next time you order packing, why not test packing of TEFLON fiber. If you'd like more proof first, write Du Pont Co., Eden

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International S.A., Geneva 24,

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