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BOATS AND BARGES

Amfels Delivers Advanced Drilling Barge For

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

Touted by its builder as the most modern and technologically ad- vanced drilling barge to be built specifically for Lake Maracaibo,

Venezuela, the Maersk Rig 61 was recently delivered by Amfels.

The prototype rig was built and delivered in less than seven months from contract signing.

Although the rig is intended to be a workover rig, it has the capa- bility of drilling to 12,000 ft. (3,657 m) with only minor modifications.

The Drilling Barge

The hull of the-vessel is 200- x 85- x 15-ft. (61-x26-x4.5-m). Below the steel deck is a system of longitudinal and transverse watertight bulk- heads, and the watertight integrity is maintained up to and including the main deck. Salt water ballast tanks, drill water, fresh water, fuel oil, mud pits and drain tanks are all built into the vessel as part of the structure, while small fuel tanks and lube oil tanks are independent.

The new design has a 45-ft. (13.7- m) high extra heavy Amfels designed cantilever, weather protection bulk- heads for the engines, four double drum winches for an eight point mooring system, a raised pipe rack, exceptional ballasting capabilities, fully contained main deck discharg- ing into only four drain lines, full contained drill floor discharging into an oily water separator, enclosed mud pits below deck, mud pumps below deck and more open main deck space for future expansion and ease of daily operations.

The vessel was built under the special supervision of the Surveyors* of the American Bureau of Ship- ping, and is classed and distin- guished in the Record as +A1 Canti- levered Drilling Barge for Lake

Maracaibo service.

The Builder

Amfels, established in 1987, is an independent subsidiary of the Far

East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS). Amfels has the design, construction and facility capabili- ties of handling sophisticated ship- building, repair and offshore prod- ucts.

Located in the Port of Brownsville,

Amfels offers easy access from the

Gulf of Mexico, with 40-ft. (12.2-m) channel depth up to its facility.

For more information on Amfels

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Seacos Enters Contract With

SAJ Instrument

Seacos Computersystem & Soft- ware GmbH, a manufacturer of ship- board computer hardware and soft- ware, has completed a cooperation contract with SAJ Instrument AB of

Finland. SAJ developed a draft measuring system with dynamic trimTheeling sensors, and the con- tract permits the integration of the

SAJ-online data directly into the

MACS3 system for loading/dis- charge and performance monitor- ing.

For more information on Seacos

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Kirkpatrick Group Offers

New Non-Petro Based

Wire Rope Lubricant

The Kirkpatrick Group developed a non-petroleum based wire rope lubricant for use with all models of

Kirkpatrick Wire Rope Lubrication

Systems, following more than two years of development and testing.

The product, trade named Dynagard "E", can be produced in low and high viscosity consistency. Physical per- formance testing at U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Dam sites showed that there was no corrosion evident on the Dynagard "E" coated portion of the rope after 10 months of submer- sion on dam gate hoist wire ropes.

For more information on Dynagard "E"

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ASTANO ASTANDER CADIZ

P.O. BOX 994 15080 Ferrol

La Coruna - Spain

Tel. (3481) 34 3211

Fax (3481) 34 3252

P.O. BOX 10 39080 El Astillero

Cantabria - Spain

Tel. (3442) 54 0050

Fax (3442) 54 0026

P.O. BOX 39 11080 Cadiz

Spain

Tel. (3456) 27 3350

Fax (3456) 27 8362

ASTILLEROS ESPANOLES

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