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American Trading

Seeks Title XI Aid

To Build 4 OBOs

The Maritime Administration announced that American Trading

Transportation Co. of 555 Fifth

Avenue, New York, N.Y., has ap- plied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of four 80,000-deadweight-ton ore/ bulk/oil (OBO) carriers. The ap- plicant, a subsidiary of American

Trading and Production Corp., esti- mates that the vessels will cost ap- proximately $34,993,000 each, and has filed for both construction and operational differential subsidies.

When completed, the vessels will be used in the carriage of crude oil from ports in the Arabian Gulf to United. States ports, and of bulk coal from U.S. Atlantic ports to ports in Japan.

Levingston To Build

Semisubmersible Unit

For Santa Fe Int'l

Santa Fe International Corp.,

Orange, Calif., has announced plans for immediate construction of a semisubmersible drilling unit designed to operate in maximum water depths of 1,500 feet. .

The unit, Blue Water No. 4, will be built at Orange, Texas, by

Levingston Shipbuilding Co. De- livery is scheduled for October 1974.

Santa Fe president E.L. Shannon

Jr. said it will be an improved ver- sion of the company's Blue Water

No. 3, which was worked in the

North Sea the past year.

Mr. Shannon said it is being built in anticipation of an increased de- mand for rigs capable of drilling in deeper waters of the Gulf of

Mexico. Initially, it will be out- fitted with marine riser and blow- out preventer controls to work in 600-foot water depths.

For water depths to 1,500 feet, the Blue Water No. 4 will use a combination chain/wire mooring system with eight 15-ton anchors.

The entire mooring system will be carried on board the unit during field moves, eliminating the re- quirement for an auxiliary vessel to handle the chain and anchors.

In overall physical 'dimensions, the unit will be identical to the

Blue Water No. 3, while design modifications will provide increas- ed stability and improved motion characteristics.

It will be equipped with a diesel- electric rig capable of drilling to depths of 25,000 feet and will in- corporate the latest design in sub- sea equipment.

Air-conditioned quarters will be provided for 68 persons in addition to a six-bed hospital.

The vessel is designed to con- form with all regulations of the

American Bureau of Shipping and other agencies governing the con- struction and operation of U.S.-fiag vessels.

Principal dimensions and capa- cities of the unit include: overall

August 19, 1973 13 length, 220 feet; overall width, 198 feet; height to deck, 83 feet; drill- ing draft, 40 feet; allowable deck load, 1,500 short tons; drill water storage, 5,000 barrels; fresh water (ship service), 1,200 barrels; po- table water (plus distillation units), 100 barrels; liquid mud (active) 1,200 barrels; diesel fuel,. 65,000 gallons, and bulk mud and cement (interchangeable), 2,400 and 4,800 cubic feet.

ITT Mackay Marine

To Supply Navigation

Equipment For 3 LNGs

A contract for radio communica- tions and navigation equipment total- ing $210,000 has been awarded to

ITT Mackay Marine, Raleigh, N.C., a division of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.

The equipment is to be supplied for three LNG vessels being built at Gen- eral Dynamics Shipyard, Quincy,

Mass., and will include an MRU- 29B/35A SSB/CW communications console, 401A lifeboat transceiver, 222A solid-state synthesized VHF radiotelephone, and a 4005A solid- state synthesized automatic direction finder.

In addition, receiving and trans- mitting ship antennas and vertical main, and emergency transmitting antennas are to be supplied.

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