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Marinette Marine To Build

EMD-Powered Tugboat

For Beker Shipping

Marinette Marine Corporation has been awarded a contract by

Beker Shipping Company of

Greenwich, Conn., for the con- struction of a 7,200-bhp, twin- screw tugboat. The tug will be utilized by Beker in conjunction with a 610-foot self-unloading, notch type barge now under con- struction by Bay Shipbuilding.

The tug/barge unit will transport phosphate rock between Taft, La., and Tampa, Fla.

The tug will have a 145-foot overall length, 42-foot beam, and an 18-foot design draft. The ves- sel will be powered with a pair of 20-cylinder EMD engines driv- ing fixed propellers. Delivery is scheduled for April 1982. The vessel will be classed Full Ocean

Service by the American Bureau of Shipping.

Latest Rig Order From

Santa Fe Drilling Brings

Total To $442 Million

Santa Fe Drilling Company has ordered a second $80-million all- weather, semisubmersible drilling unit, bringing to $442 million the value of new drilling equipment on order. E.L. Shannon Jr., chair- man of the parent Santa Fe In- ternational Corporation, said the new unit brings to 20 the number of drilling rigs under construc- tion or on order. These include 13 land and seven marine units.

The two semisubmersibles, des- ignated as Rigs 135 and 140, will be built by Daewoo Shipbuild- ing and Heavy Machinery, Ltd.,

Seoul, Korea, in Daewoo's Okpo shipyard. The first unit is sched- uled for delivery in November 1982 and the second in March 1983. Each will cost about $80 million.

The semis are modified ver- sions of the 9500 Enhanced Pace- setter series, designed by the ma- rine architectural firm of Friede & Goldman, New Orleans. Both are designed for operations in se- vere environments such as the

Gulf of Alaska or the North Sea north of the 62nd parallel. They will be capable of working in wa- ters 1,500 feet deep and drilling to depths of 25,000 feet. Both vessels will be self-propelled. (USPS 016-750) 107 EAST 31st STREET

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