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Standard Oil (Indiana) Orders

Seven New Tankers For Fleet

As a result of orders it has placed on its own account and arranged through charter- and-lbuild arrangements, the tanker fleet of

Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) will be increased by seven new ships.

The new ships, all to be operational by 1975, account for about one million deadweight tons and will bring the company's tanker ca- pacity to approximately 3.6 million deadweight tons.

Two of the vessels, in the 128,000-ton class, will be built in Spain by Astilleros Espanoles,

S.A., and two similar ships by Mitsui Ship- building and Engineering Co. in Japan. The four ships, to be owned by the company ,are to be delivered in 1976.

Three 153,000-ton vessels are being con- structed by another Japanese shipyard for de- livery in 1974-75 and will be operated by the oil company for 20 years at a IfulLterm cost of more than $100 million. The construction orders and charter arrangements have been made through the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Amoco Ocean Tanker Co.

The oil company's tanker fleet currently numbers 41 vessels, including its own ships and those operated under charter and units on order or under construction.

The total includes two 230,000-ton ships recently launched in Spain and two similar ships which have been ordered from a Span- ish yard.

The seven new ships the company has or- dered will be capable of delivering crude oil in volumes equal to a delivery rate of about 100,000 barrels per day from the Middle East to free world ports, according to R.S. Haddow, president of the company.

Mr. Haddow also pointed out that U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports are not now capable of docking tankers larger than the 70,000-dead- weight-ton class. By placing the company's new large tankers in service to deeper-water foreign ports, he noted smaller vessels in its fleet will be free to move crude oil imports into UjS. ports.

Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd.

Delivers 285,000-Dwt Tanker

The T/T Rania Chandris, equipped with the most modern navigation instruments, achieved a speed of 15.25 knots during her sea trials.

The tenth in a series of 285,000 tonners and the third this year from the Lindo Shipyard, Lindo, was commissioned following successful trials in

Danish waters and was delivered to her owners,

Chandris Tankers Limited, London.

The approximate main dimensions of the Rania

Chandris are as follows: length overall, 1,139 feet; breadth, 170 feet, and depth, 93 feet. The vessel has a speed of 15.25 knots.

The main engine is a Stal-Laval turbine plant with an output of 32,440 shp at 85 rpm, a Com- bustion Engineering main boiler type V2M9, de- veloping at normal output 95 tons steam per hour at 513 degrees, and a Combustion Engineering auxiliary boiler type V2M8, developing 32 tons steam per hour at 350 degrees.

The vessel is built to the rules of Lloyd's Regis- ter of Shipping class +100 A.l "Oil Tanker" pt.

H.T., +LMC.

The next 285,000 tonner for the A.P. Moller

Shipping Companies, Copenhagen, is scheduled for delivery this month. She will be followed by another sister ship for the A.P. Moller Shipping

Companies, and two for the Livanos Group.

With these vessels, the series of 285,000 tonners will be completed, and the yard will thereafter go ahead with the construction of five 330,000-dwt tankers for the A.P. Moller Shipping Companies. mister cap

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