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Santa Fe Drilling's Seven

Offshore Rigs To Cost $350 Million

The contract oil and gas well drilling industry is enjoying an unprecedented boom, both on land and offshore, around the world.

New construction of drilling units is announced almost daily. The ability of drilling contractors to order offshore drilling units is often limited by the availability of construction slots in shipyards that build rigs.

The reasons for the boom in drilling appear to be twofold.

First, of course, is the higher price of crude oil on a worldwide basis. But this does not fully ex- plain the story. The second reason is a compelling political drive by the producing countries—and the third world nations — to define their ultimate reserves regard- less of the near-term market for their oil.

As this assessment may take 10 years or more, the drilling con- tractors have been quite aggres- sive in ordering new rig construc- tion. Some companies are building

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Santa Fe Drilling Company's new three-leg jackup, Rig 124, arrived in Indonesian waters from Japan recently and went to work for Arco-lndonesia. The $26-million unit, pictured here undergoing tests in the Inland Sea of Japan, was built by

Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co. (Modec) at the Kanrei shipyard,

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