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Lone Star Responder built by Bender Shipbuilding.

Bender Shipbuilding And MSRC

Launch Lone Star Responded Fourth

Spill Vessel

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Marine Spill Response Corporation

Co., Inc. of Mobile, Ala., recently (MSRC) in launching the 210-foot announced that it has joined the Lone Star Responder, the fourth oil spill recovery vessel in MSRC's planned 16-vessel national fleet.

Bender was awarded a $50 mil- lion contract to build four oil spill recovery vessels for MSRC. In addi- tion to the Lone Star Responder, which will be stationed at Corpus

Christi, Texas, Bender is also build- ing the Gulf Responder, the Louisi- ana Responder and the Texas Re- sponder. All four vessels are ex- pected to be completed by February 1993 and will be stationed in the

Gulf of Mexico.

Designed by Bender engineers, the Lone Star Responder will be equipped with an advanced oil re- covery system of skimmers, booms and separators capable of recover- ing major oil spills, both close to shore and in the open ocean. The vessel will have tanks to hold 4,000 barrels of recovered oil. Once recov- ered, the oil will be pumped into barges or floating bladders for dis- posal onshore.

The Lone Star Responder was launched using two 600-ton float- ing barge cranes supplied by Bisso

Marine Co. of New Orleans, La.

The two barge cranes, positioned in the Mobile River, lifted the 210-foot vessel from the riverbank as tugs backed the cranes away from the bank. The cranes then placed the hull into the water.

One of the cranes then moved up the river, lifted the vessel's super- structure, brought it down the river and placed it onto the hull. The hull and superstructure were built as separate modules, using the latest techniques in modular construction.

With the main portions of the vessel now in place, construction and equip- ment outfitting on the vessel will continue through the fall.

Founded in 1919, Bender Ship- building & Repair Co., Inc. is a full- service shipyard that builds, con- verts and repairs vessels for com- mercial and government owners and operators.

For more information describing the services and facilities provided by Bender Shipbuilding & Repair,

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Statoil Predicts Offshore

Drilling To Continue

Through Turn Of Century

Statoil has predicted that Nor- way will probably experience a steady rate of offshore drilling through the turn of the century.

Johan Void, vice president of

Statoil claims that the company ex- pects to drill about 35 exploration wells each year off the coast of Nor- way in the North Sea.

At the present time reports indi- cate that Statoil would like to keep its long term oil price at about $20 per barrel without a projected in- crease for the remainder of the 1990s.

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