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Gulf Oil Creates New Division

Gulf Global Exploration (GLOBEX) —Appoints Three Top Executives

Todd Houston Yard Delivers First Of Two

High-Pressure Jet Pipelaying Barges

Powerful Enough To Break Rock Structures

Jet Barge No. 3 is equipped with a jet sled which straddles the pipe on the floor of the sea.

B.W. Miller M.M. Rigo de Righi

The pressure jets of Jet Barge

No. 3, owned and operated by J.

Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., New

Orleans, La., are powerful enough to break rock structures if need be to expedite the burying of pipe at sea. This barge is the first of two being built by the Houston Divi- sion of Todd Shipyards Corpora- tion, and it is now in operation in the North Sea.

The new barge is equipped with a jet sled which can be lowered at the stern until it rides on the floor of the sea. As it straddles the pipe, high-pressure water jets trench out underneath the pipe, which then drops into place in the trench.

Natural action of the ocean later fills in the trench, covering the pipe.

Air-conditioned living quarters are provided for 72 men, and the barge carries enough fuel, potable water, fresh water and dry stores to last 30 days. A helicopter deck facilitates resupply operations.

Located below deck are eight mooring winches and two pull- ahead winches for moving and po- sitioning the barge during the pipe- burying operations, as well as the jet-booster pumps and miscella- neous auxiliary machinery.

The above-deck houses contain boilers, generators, jet pumps and other machinery for barge and pipe-burying operations and con- trol of the barge winches and ma- chinery.

Jet Barge No. 3 can be towed across open seas to operate in all areas of the world. It is classified by the American Bureau of Ship- ping -(- A-l for unrestricted ocean service.

Gulf Oil Corporation has estab- lished a new division, Gulf Global

Exploration Company (GLO-

BEX), to provide central coordi- nation in its worldwide search for gas and oil.

M.J. Hill has been named presi- dent of GLOBEX, which will be headquartered in Pittsburgh. Mr.

Hill will also continue his duties as vice president-exploration and production for Gulf Oil Corpora- tion.

B.W. Miller, formerly explora- tion coordinator, Gulf Oil Corpora- tion, has been named vice presi- dent-operations, and M.M. Rigo de

Righi, formerly manager-explora- tion, Gulf Oil Company—Latin

America, has been named vice

The techniques used to make

Puerto Rico's "Operation Boot- strap" industrialization program a model for economic development around the world should be adapt- ed to turn the Caribbean island into a major Western Hemisphere distribution center, Hiram D. Ca- bassa, chairman of the Puerto Rico

Ocean Service Association, said re- cently in New York.

He spoke before a PROSA pub- lic meeting attended by shippers, ocean carrier executives and Gov- ernment officials. president-technical.

Gulf currently is conducting oil and gas exploration operations and investigations in approximately 28 countries around the world.

In addition to continued explora- tion in countries where the com- pany is now producing, Gulf-inter- est wildcats were drilled in the past year in Norway, the United King- dom, Gabon, Zaire, Indonesia, Ko- rea and Thailand.

GLOBEX will also direct the op- erations of the Gulfrex, the firm's exploration and research ship. The

Gulfrex, a 220-foot-long vessel manned by a crew of 40, has logged more than 250,000 statute miles in its nearly six years of scanning the ocean for petroleum deposits.

Mr. Cabassa said the island Gov- ernment should build warehouses on the same crash program basis it built hundreds of factories under the successful Bootstrap program, to also alleviate the current short- age of distribution space, which is causing congestion along the boom- ing San Juan waterfront and in- creasing costs to the ocean carriers.

PROSA members include Sea-

Land, Seatrain, Transamerican

Trailer Transport, and Gulf-Puerto

Rico Lines, the major U.S.-flag carriers in the $4-billion Puerto

Rican trade.

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PROSA Chairman H.D. Cabassa Urges

Warehouse Construction Program In Puerto Rico

Pictured at the meeting are from left: Jayson S. Rice, Borden Inc., International; John J. Da- vis, U.S. Maritime Administration; Hiram D. Cabassa, PROSA chairman; Thomas F.

Cermack, Seatrain Lines, Inc.; Michael Leigh, Hudson Pulp & Paper Co., and Gerald P.

Toomey, Sea-Land Service, Inc. 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News