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Sheeran To Manage

Western Hemisphere

Sales For Mobil

Bernie F. Sheeran

Bernie F. Sheeran has been ap- pointed manager, Western Hemis- phere sales, for Mobil Sales and

Supply 'Corporation. He will be re- sponsible for sales of fuels and lu- bricants to the marine trade in

North and South America.

After serving in the U.S. Navy and earning a B.S. degree in com- merce from Notre Dame, Mr. Shee- ran joined Mobil in 1950 in the bunker sales department.

Ecology Two Reguests

CDS For 3 Tankers To

Be Built By Lockheed

The Maritime Administration,

Washington, D.C., has received a construction differential subsidy ap- plication for three 90,000-dwt tankers costing about $36.5 million each. The request for aid has been filed by Ecol- ogy Two Corporation, 551 Fifth Ave- nue, New York, N.Y., and the vessels are to be built by Lockheed Ship- building & Construction Co. of Seat- tle, Wash.

Offshore Drilling Rig

Contract Awarded To

Bethlehem Singapore

A contract for construction of a mat-supported jackup offshore drill- ing device has been awarded by

Transworld Drilling Company, Lim- ited, to Bethlehem Singapore Private

Ltd. (Bethsing).

The new unit, to be constructed in

Singapore, will have a drilling capa- city of 25,000 feet in water depths up to 250 feet.

Designated Transworld Rig 63, the drilling device will have a hydraulic self-elevating mobile platform 180 feet long, 132 feet wide and 16 feet deep, with a 50-foot-square drilling slot. The mat, which will rest on the ocean floor when the rig is in drilling position, will have dimensions of 210 feet by 170 feet by 10 feet. The skirt depth will be two feet and its drilling slot will be 90 feet by 87 feet.

The upper platform of the new unit will be supported by three cylin- drical columns, similar in design to

Transworld Drilling Rig 59. Each of the columns will be 312 feet long with an outside diameter of 12 feet.

The crews' quarters will be air- conditioned and will accommodate 78 men. Additional personnel facilities will include a galley, dining room, recreation room, laundry and offices.

A heliport will be located at the ex- treme aft of the main hull.

Transworld Drilling Company has another drilling unit, Transworld Rig 62, nearing completion at Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's yard at Beau- mont, Texas.

Upon completion of Rig 63, sched- uled for November 1974, Transworld

Drilling Company and Transworld

Drilling Company, Limited, wholly owned subsidiaries of Kerr-McGee

Corporation, will have 16 offshore drilling devices for domestic and in- ternational operations. Transworld drilling units are presently operating in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, offshore Scotland, England and Den- mark, Nigeria, and the gulf between

Sharjah and Iran. It is expected that

Rig 63 will be contracted for work in the Southeast Asia area.

The shipyard in Singapore, where

Rig 63 will be built, is 70 percent owned by Bethlehem and 30 percent by the Development Bank of Singa- pore. Bethlehem's Beaumont yard provides sales, technical and engineer- ing assistance to the Singapore fa- cility

Trinidad Corp. Files

CDS For Four VLCCs

A construction differential subsidy application has been filed with the

Maritime Administration by the New

York-based firm, Trinidad Corpora- tion, 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Plans by Trinidad call for con- struction of four 383,600-dwt very large crude carriers (VLCCs). Each vessel will cost an estimated $116,- 400,000.

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