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Drilling Platform Commissioned

At Bethlehem-Beaumont Yard

Attending the commissioning of J. Storm II are left to right: James C. Storm, president, Marine Drilling Com- pany, Corpus Christi, Texas, the rig's owner; Mrs. W.A.

Roberts Sr., Mrs. W.A. Roberts, sponsor; W.A. Roberts, senior vice president, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bar- tlesville, Okla.; Mrs. Storm, and Ralph A. Leaf, assistant manager, Beaumont Yard.

The J. Storm II, a mobile self-elevating oil drilling platform designed and constructed by

Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont Yard, was recently commissioned in Beaumont, Texas.

Built for the Marine Drilling Company of Cor- pus Christi, Texas, the rig was sponsored by Mrs.

W.A. Roberts, wife of a senior vice president for Phillips Petroleum.

The J. Storm II was designed to operate in the

Gulf of Mexico in water depths up to 250 feet in the non-hurricane season. This is the second mobile drilling platform built for the Marine

Drilling Company in the last two years.

A mechanical rig, the J. Storm II has a twin- unit propulsion-assist system consisting of two 6%-foot-diameter three-bladed propellers, each driven by one EMD 12-567 engine with reverse clutch and reduction gear.

The major components of the J. Storm II are a mat from which three steel columns extend 312 feet vertically, a self-contained drilling platform containing the machinery, mud pits, fuel and water tanks, storage areas, air-conditioned living quarters for 48 men, a heliport, and a skid unit upon which the derrick and drawworks are mounted.

The skid unit is equipped with a Continental

Emsco 147-foot derrick with a 1,400,000-pound capacity, and a National 1625M drawworks pow- ered by three Superior PTD-8 supercharged die- sel engines. A National C-375 rotary is mechani- cally driven from the drawworks.

Within the interior of the platform are two

National 12-P-160 Triplex pumps, each powered by one EMD 16-567 diesel engine. Here also are mud pits with a total capacity of 1,500 barrels, bulk mud tanks having a total capacity of 3,900 cubic feet, and storage space for 3,000 sacks of dry materials, 4,848 barrels of drilling water, 400 barrels of potable water, and 1,796 barrels of fuel oil.

The J. Storm II is built in compliance with the

United States Coast Guard rules for artificial islands, and is constructed to the highest classi- fication of the American Bureau of Shipping.

SWEDISH STAMP PICTURES PACECO CRANE: The

Paceco Portainer crane operating in Sweden's Port of

Goteborg gets official recognition on their new "Swedish

Industry" stamp recently issued by the Swedish Postal

Authority. Worth about 1 0 cents in U.S. postage, the 55

Ore stamp depicts the Skandia Harbour, considered

Scandinavia's most important container port. The con- tainer handling crane from Paceco, a Division of Frue- hauf Corporation, USA, has been in operation for almost six years.

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