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Oceans '81

Page 12 55th Annual

Propeller Club

Convention

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Blocker Asks Title XI

For Two Drilling Units

To Cost $67 Million

Blocker Drilling and Marine

Co., a subsidiary of Blocker En- ergy Corp., Houston, Texas, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construc- tion of two semisubmersible drill- ing vessels.

Each of the 85-foot vessels are to operate in the Gulf of Mexico.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Pas- cagoula, Miss., is the proposed builder. Deliveries are set for

October 1982 and February 1983.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover 347,460,000 or about 75 percent of the estimated actual cost of 867,150,000.

Title XI Sought For 116 Barges And 12 Tugs

To Cost $92.2 Million

Florida Barge Lines Corp., a subsidiary of Central Gulf Lines,

Inc., Number Two Canal Street,

New Orleans, La., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of 116 river barges and 12 tugs.

Bergeron Barges, Inc., St. Ber- nard, La., will build the open hopper-type, 3,000-ton barges.

Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Inch, has been named to build two 8,400-hp river tugs. Builders and characteristics of the remaining tups have not been announced.

All of the vessels will operate on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Most are expected to be deliv- ered in 1982 and 1983.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover $80,742,550, or 871- percent of the barges' and 75 percent of the tugs' combined estimated actual cost of 892,277,- 200.

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