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Storm Awards Contract To

Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard

For Offshore Drilling Rig

Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Tex- as, shipyard has received a contract from Storm

Drilling Company of Houston for an offshore drilling rig.

This mat-supported jackup unit will have a drilling capacity of 25,000 feet and will be able to operate in water depths up to 250 feet. De- livery is scheduled for fall, 1975.

The rig that will be built for Storm Drilling

Company is a hydraulic, self-elevating mobile platform. The platform will be 166 feet long, 132 feet wide and 16 feet deep, with a 50-foot- square drilling slot.

The mat will be 210 feet by 170 feet by 10 feet, and its drilling slot will be 90 feet by 87 feet. Each of the three cylindrical columns will be 312 feet long and 12 feet OD.

The Storm Drilling Company rig will have ca- pacity to store 6,150 cubic feet of bulk mud and cement, 3,000 sacks, 1,500 barrels of active mud, 4,324 barrels of drilling water storage, 402 barrels of potable water, 1,796 barrels of fuel oil and 4,047 barrels of salt water.

Other drilling units under construction by Beth- lehem at Beaumont include five semisubmersibles:

Ugland Shipping Company A/S—Zapata Off- shore Company, Storm Drilling Company, The

Western Company of North America, Marlin

Drilling Company, Field International Drilling

Company—K/S Viking Offshore A/S; three jackup mobile drilling platforms : Marine Drilling

Company, Transworld Drilling Company and

Walker-Huthnance Offshore Workover Company, and the conversion of a drillship for Storm.

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NASSCO Expanding Facilities

To Build 150,000-Ton Tankers

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has announced expansion of its shipbuilding facilities at San Diego, Calif.

NASSCO is owned 50 percent each by Kaiser

Industries Corporation and by Morrison-Knud- sen Company and is under the management direction of Kaiser Industries Corporation.

The expansion will add a construction grav- ing dock of 160 feet by 1,000 feet, which will permit construction of vessels of 146 feet in beam and 956 feet in length—the equivalent of a 150,000-ton tanker or a 125,000-cubic-meter

LNG vessel. Expected addition of 16 acres of leased land will permit construction of steel fabricating facilities to support fully construc- tion in the new dock, as well as on the three existing sliding ways.

Cost of expansion, scheduled for completion in March, 1975, will be about $20 million. Nor- mal operations will continue during expansion.

NASSCO is currently designing a 150,000- ton tanker which it believes will be an optimum design for the Alaskan oil trade. It expects to enter the market with the new design in mid- 1974 for deliveries by early 1978, when the

Alaskan pipeline is expected to be completed.

NASSCO has no current plans for LNG vessel construction.

At December 31, 1973, the shipyard had on order thirteen 89,000-ton tankers, five 38,000- ton tankers, an 80,500-ton are/bulk/oil carrier, and one 37,000-ton Navy Oiler, representing a new construction backlog of approximately $500 million.

Delivery commitments on all current back- log contracts are based on existing facilities.

Delivery of six of the vessels currently in the backlog will be accelerated from four to ten months by constructing several of the 89,000- ton tankers in the new graving dock. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News