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Southwest Marine Awarded

LST Conversion Contract

Southwest Marine, Inc., San

Diego, Calif., recently announced that it had been awarded a $813,- 991 contract by John J. McMullen

Associates, Inc., Ventura, Calif., to convert an LST to a barge.

The conversion will be per- formed at Southwest Marine's

San Diego facilities according to

Arthur Engel, president.

The overall conversion involves the removal of the superstruc- ture and main deck areas so that only the second deck remains.

The barge, upon completion, will be used to carry cargo to San

Nicholas Island off Ventura. Af- ter the barge is beached, cargo will be discharged over the bow ramp.

Southwest Marine, Inc. has three full-service shipyards lo- cated in San Diego, San Pedro and San Francisco.

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The topmost sections of its legs were added to the Griffin-Alexander III after it was towed south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Md.

Griffin-Alexander III

Commissioned At Beth Baltimore

Griffin-Alexander Drilling Com- pany and Bethlehem Steel Corpo- ration's Sparrows Point, Balti- more, Md., shipyard recently com- missioned a self-elevating mobile offshore drilling rig.

The rig was christened the

Griffin-Alexander III by its spon- sor, Mrs. Anne Place, wife of

Jack R. Place of Houston, vice president of U.S. Offshore and

Gulf Coast Area, Energy Re- sources Group of Cities Service

Company.

The multimillion-dollar rig has been under construction for about 10 months, and upon delivery this month will begin drilling opera- tions in the Gulf of Mexico for

Cities Service.

George S. Hamilton, general manager of the Sparrows Point yard, said the Griffin-Alexander

III is the third of eight rigs which

Bethlehem will deliver to Griffin-

Alexander over the next two years. The first two rigs were (continued on page 23)

Mrs. Anne Place of Houston, Texas, christened the Griffin-Alexander III mobile offshore jackup drilling rig at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard recently. She is joined by George S. Hamilton (from left), general man- ager of the Sparrows Point yard; and owners J. William Alexander, president and chief operating officer, and Loy D. Griffin, chairman of Griffin-Alexander Drilling

Company, Houston. The rig, capable of drilling in 250-foot water depth, will be put into service for Cities Service following a 24-day, 2,150-mile tow to the Gulf of Mexico. 20 Write 259 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News