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Halter Introduces New Line

Of Fire Utility Vessels *

Fire/utility boat Point 'V, built by Halter Marine for Point Venture, Ltd., is first of a new line just introduced. Vessel is powered by two 900-bhp Detroit Diesel engines and fitted with a Bird-Johnson bow thruster.

Halter Marine, Inc., introduced a new line of fire/utility boats with the delivery of the 150-foot

Point 'T' to her owners, Point

Venture, Ltd. of Morgan City, La.

In addition to her 61,000-gallon liquid mud capacity, the new ves- sel carries three 6-inch, 2,400-gpm fire monitors capable of pumping water as well as 1,720 gallons of foam.

A smaller version, the Halter- built 130-foot Point Au' Fer, sim- ilarly equipped and working for

Mobil Oil, recently assisted in ex- tinguishing a serious bulk fuel storage fire at Morgan City. Fol- lowing the fire, the Morgan City fire chief said: "... I definitely feel that if it were not for the

Point Au' Fer and its outstanding equipment and crew, a large part of the Front Street area would have gone up in flames." "Our experience with these vessels in the field has been so satisfactory that we anticipate building several more in the same class," said Arthur Levy Jr., pres- ident of Point Venture. "In addi- tion," Mr. Levy added, "we are considering adding full firefight- ing equipment to the three 191- foot tug/supply boats we have under construction at Halter now.

Included on each would be four large fire monitors with 10,000- gpm capacity, plus the capacity to pump 10,000 gallons of foam."

The Point 'T\ whose overall dimensions are 150 feet by 36 feet by 14 feet, is powered by two GM

Detroit Diesel Allison 16V-149NA diesel engines developing 900 bhp each at 1,800 rpm.

She has a cargo capacity of 275 long tons and has 2,200 square feet of cargo space on her aft deck. She can carry 78,560 gal- lons of fuel oil, 1,283 gallons of lube oil, 3,974 gallons of fresh water, 108,196 gallons of ballast water, and has a sanitary holding capacity of 895 gallons.

Auxiliary machinery includes two GM 75-kw generators driven by two GM Detroit Diesel Allison 6-71 diesel engines, a Continental

Electric generator control panel, an Engine Monitor, Inc. monitor- ing system, two Quincy D325 air compressors, and Aurora fire, ballast, bilge, and fuel transfer pumps. The vessel is also equipped with a Bird-Johnson bow thruster driven by a GM diesel, and the engine room is protected by a fire alarm system and automatic CO- flooding system.

Living quarters include six staterooms, 20 berths, and a fully equipped modern galley.

The Point T is American Bu- reau of Shipping classed A-l, + AMS; USCG NVC 1-78, USCG

Subchapter I, carries a Panama

Canal Admeasurement certificate, and is U.S. Public Health ap- proved.

She was built at Halter's Chick- asaw, Ala. division, one of 10 shipyards owned and operated by

Halter in the Southeastern United

States. Halter Marine is the world's largest builder of supply vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Bethlehem-Beaumont Yard

Commissions Jackup—

Gets Order For Two More

O & U Drilling, Inc. of Beau- mont, Texas, and Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's Beaumont shipyard recently commissioned an offshore jackup drilling rig and announced the ordering of two other rigs.

One of the new rigs will be built at the Beaumont yard, and the second at the Singapore shipyard.

Commissioned was the Gulf- drill I, with Mrs. George H. Gal- loway, wife of the president of

Amoco Production Company, as the sponsor. Upon delivery, the rig will work for Amoco in the

Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulfdrill I is a mat-sup- ported jackup that features a cantilevered substructure. It of- fers the capability to position its drill floor over existing offshore production platforms in order to drill developmental wells or to re- work existing wells. Being mat- supported, the unit can operate on a wide range of bottom soil con- ditions. On location, the rig offers a variable load capacity of four million pounds, and handles hook plus setback loads of one million pounds, on wells as far as 32 feet past the aft end of the platform.

The maximum cantilever reach of the rotary is 40 feet, with a hook/ setback load capacity of 800,000 pounds at rig centerline.

The structure consists of a plat- form that is 157 feet by 120 feet, supported by three 9-foot-diam- eter columns fixed to a large sta- bilizing mat that is 192 feet by 160 feet. Outfitted with deep-well drilling equipment, the rig can operate in waters up to 150 feet deep. It can withstand hurricane forces resulting from 100-knot winds and 55-foot seas in water depths up to 125 feet.

The Gulfdrill I contains on- board, air-conditioned living ac- commodations for 50 people, com- plete with sleeping quarters, gal- ley, recreation room, laundry, and rest rooms, and is built to comply with United States Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping standards for offshore drilling units.

The rig ordered by O & U for construction in Singapore is scheduled for delivery in October 1981, and the one to be built at

Beaumont is scheduled for deliv- ery in January 1982. Similar to the Gulfdrill I, they are mat- supported with cantilevered sub- structures and thus offer similar operating advantages. These units are designed to operate in waters to 200 feet deep.

Graham Named New York

Operations Manager for

MacGregor Land & Sea

MacGregor Land & Sea, Inc. has appointed Maxwell S. Graham to the post of operations man- ager of its New York area service station. Being the nation's larg- est port, this assignment is a key position in MacGregor's rapidly expanding marine service net- work. Not only will Mr. Graham direct a team of highly experi- enced service engineers, but his efforts also will be employed in expanding and modernizing the machine shop, hydraulic facility, and spare parts fabricating shop located in the Brooklyn area.

After a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, serving in a va- riety of capacities in many types of ships, Mr. Graham worked with

Maxwell S. Graham

Y-ARD of Glasgow, Scotland, a highly respected company in the research development and train- ing fields in the United Kingdom.

For the past two years, he ha9 been with a large Gulf Coast ma- rine repair facility. He brings to

MacGregor a wide range of expe- rience in all manner of ship re- pairs.

MacGregor Land & Sea is the repair arm of MacGregor Coma- rain, Inc., located in Cranford,

N.J. The Land and Sea operation now has six locations in North

America, and is experiencing rap- id growth due to their prime lo- cations and expansion into all manner of general marine repairs. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News