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Allis-Chalmers Receives $6-Million Mud Pump

Order From Wilson

The Marine Diesel Division of the Allis-Chalmers Corp., Mil- waukee, Wis., recently received an order valued at more than $6 million covering construction of 60 mud pumps for drilling rigs made by the Wilson Manufac- turing Co., Wichita Falls, Texas.

The division, whose major ac- tivity is construction of large ma- rine diesel engines, also operates a custom manufacturing depart- ment which produces a wide range of products to specifications of other firms.

The Wilson Manufacturing Co. is a major supplier of products used by oil well drillers. Allis-

Chalmers will make equipment in

Wilson's line of model 600 duplex mud pumps, 600 hp maximum at 95 strokes per minute.

Allis-Chalmers said that the order includes an option for 60 additional pumps. The order in- cludes Allis-Chalmers responsi- bility for manufacture, assembly, test, and shipping of the pumps to Wilson dealers.

Title XI Granted For

Drill Rig Cheyenne

Total Cost $32.6-Million

MarAd has approved in princi- ple an application by Tidelands

II, Inc., a wholly owned subsid- iary of Temple Drilling Co., Hou- ston, Texas, for a Title XI loan guarantee to aid in financing con- struction of the offshore jackup drilling rig Cheyenne.

The 220-foot rig, which can drill in water 12 to 200 feet deep, is being built by Bethlehem Steel

Corp., Sparrows Point, Md. The vessel is scheduled to be deliv- ered by April 1982. Plans call for it to operate initially in the Gulf of Mexico. The Title XI guaran- tee amounts to $24,472,000, or roughly 75 percent of the ves- sel's $32,630,000 estimated actual cost. $1 -Billion Lube Oil

Refinery To Be Constructed

In Saudi Arabia

An agreement to build in Saudi

Arabia the world's largest lubri- cating oil refinery was signed in

Riyadh recently by representa- tives of the General Petroleum and Minerals Organization (Pe- tromin)—the Saudi Arabian state oil agency — and wholly owned subsidiaries of Standard Oil Com- pany of California and Texaco

Inc.

The agreement clears the way for formation of a new company to proceed with the joint ven- ture partnership at a cost of over $1 billion. Petromin will hold a 50 percent interest, and each of the other participants a 25 per- cent interest.

The new refinery will be lo- cated on the Arabian Gulf at

Madinat-Al-Jubail Al-Sinaiyah, a major industrial complex in Saudi

Arabia's national development program. Construction is sched- uled to start in 1982, with com- mercial production planned for early 1986. The Jubail Lube Oil

Refinery is designed to produce 12,000 barrels per day of premi- um lubricating oil base stocks for automotive and industrial use.

Signing the agreement for Pe- tromin was Dr. Abdulhady H.

Taher, the agency's governor.

Signing for Texaco Saudi Invest- ments Limited was Alfred C. De

Crane Jr., a director of that com- pany and executive vice president of Texaco Inc. W. Jones McQuinn, president of Arabian Chevron

Overseas Limited and a SoCal vice president, signed for his com- pany.

Management of the new com- pany will emphasize training of

Saudis. The training of plant op- erators, engineers and supervi- sors, and the massive lube proj- ect itself, are expected to repre- sent a significant contribution to- ward the kingdom's goal of ac- quiring technology. With initial assistance from SoCal and Texaco personnel, it is planned that the refinery will be managed, oper- ated and maintained by a ma- jority of Saudi Arab personnel.

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