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Dearborn-Storm To Add New Jackup Rigs At Cost Of $29 Million
Dearborn-Storm Corporation, Chicago, 111., has announced it will add two new rigs to its Storm Drilling Company subsidiary at a total cost of $29 million. These units will be mat-type jackup rigs capable of drilling in 250 feet of water. Both units will be built by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, one in their Beaumont, Texas, shipyard while the other will be built in Singapore.
Delivery on both is expected no later than October 1975.
Arthur Weiss, president of Dearborn- Storm Corporation, stated that he was pleased to announce this important expansion of Storm Drilling's offshore drilling capabilities, enabling it further to serve the worldwide needs of the petroleum industry. This brings to four the number of drilling rigs under construction. In addition, Dearborn- Storm is currently building five tug/supply boats. Combined rigs and vessels currently under construction approximate $75 million.
One of these units, the semisubmersible Zephyr II, will be jointly owned with the A.P. Moller Company.
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- Offshore Seminar To Be Held Feb. 4-8 In Houston, Texas page: 4
- Dearborn-Storm To Add New Jackup Rigs At Cost Of $29 Million page: 5
- The Presque Isle page: 7
- Bergesen Heads Firm Seeking To Purchase Boston Navy Yard page: 11
- Navy Energy R&D Office Relocated page: 12
- Moore And McCormack Co. Plan To Change Firm's Name page: 12
- Navy Amphibious Assault Landing Craft To Be Built By Todd Seattle Shipyard page: 14
- SNAME New England Section And AWS Hear Japanese Shipbuilding Report At Joint Meeting page: 14
- Midshipmen Hear Panel Of Four Discuss Offshore Drilling Careers For USMMA Graduates page: 19
- Pacific Lighting Marine Awards Contract For Two LNGs To Sun Shipbuilding With Option To Build Three More Ships page: 19
- Supertanker Brooklyn Sold By Seatrain To General Electric Credit page: 22
- Lykes Elects Four New Vice Presidents page: 24
- Kent E. Hoffmeister Named Engineering VP At Nashville Bridge page: 24
- South African Marine Elects Charles Parkhill page: 25
- Giant Gantry Crane Ordered From Krupp By Newport News Ship page: 25
- GATX Subsidiary Orders Second Coal Carrier From Bay Shipbuilding page: 26
- Year-End Report page: 27
- N.Y. SNAME, NYPE, IME And ASNE Joint Meeting Hears Paper On Silencing Marine Gas Turbines page: 27
- American Ship Receives Orders Totaling $31 Million For Towboats And Barges page: 30
- First Semisubmersible Drilling Rig Built On U.S. East Coast Christened At Bethlehem Steel's Baltimore, Md. Shipyard page: 31
- Second French Cargo Vessel Delivered At Sorel page: 34
- Colt Industries Names J.F. Morgan President Power Systems Div. page: 34
- J.J. Henry Company Moorestown/Norfolk Announces Promotions page: 34
- Sydney Swan Retires From American Bureau page: 35
- More Navy Ship Repair Work For Private Shipyards page: 37
- Sun Ship Builds Big, Fast Trailership In Record Time page: 37
- Stewart & Stevenson Open London Office; Knapp Named Manager page: 38
- Captain Robert E. Hart Named New President Marine Index Bureau page: 39
- Military Sealift Command Invites Offers To Operate Nine 25,000-Dwt Tankers page: 41
- Hydro Products Introduces New Right Angle Adaptor For Underwater TV Camera page: 41