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North Sea Maureen Field

Commences Oil Production

Oil production began recently from the Maureen field, 163 miles east-northeast of Aberdeen, Scot- land, near the center of the North

Sea.

Phillips Petroleum Company

United Kingdom Limited, opera- tor of the field, said Maureen is ex- pected to reach peak production of about 72,000 barrels per day early next year. Maureen crude has an

API gravity of 36 degrees and is produced from a reservoir about 8,000 feet below the seabed.

The Maureen production plat- form is a steel gravity platform built entirely onshore (in two parts), while the wells were being drilled offshore by a semisubmer- sible drilling rig. It is reported to be the world's largest steel gravity platform and the first such unit to be built for the North Sea.

The 112,000-ton Maureen plat- form uniquely combines flotation, ballasting and oil-storage require- ments. Storage capacity in the platform's three massive under- water tank-legs totals 650,000 barrels, allowing continuous pro-

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Philadelphia Port Corp.

Elects Malone President

John J. Malone, director-port operations of the Philadelphia Port

Corporation, was elected president of the organization by a unani- mous vote of the board of directors today.

Mr. Malone has been with the

Port Corporation since 1968. He succeeds G. Fred DiBona Jr. who resigned as president in July to become president of the Greater

Philadelphia Chamber of Com- merce.

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City, Pittsburgh and Chicago, with others to follow. A traffic and reg- ulatory department has been formed as well as a governmental and public affairs office.

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