Offshore Oil Drilling

  • The Honorable Neil Windsor, Newfoundland's Minister of Development, recently reported that $400 million will be spent in drilling for oil off the coast of his Canadian province this year, and that oil production should begin by 1987.

    Noting that Mobil's Hibernia find alone contains 1.85 billion barrels of oil and two trillion cubic feet of gas, Mr. Windsor told business editors attending a Newfoundland press luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City recently: "The important thing to keep in mind is that these excellent results have been achieved despite the fact that oil exploration permits cover only one-eighth of our continental shelf which covers 730,000 square miles." The Newfoundland Government official said that offshore oil was but one of the developments which "has placed Newfoundland on the threshold of major social and economic change over the next 10 years." He disclosed that a decision will be made late this year on whether to develop the Gull Island hydropower site, the Muskrat Falls site or both, on Labrador's Churchill River. The Muskrat Falls plant would cost $3 to $4 billion, while the Gull Island project would cost $4 to $6 billion.

    Present plans call for development by 1987.

    "The Gull Island site alone would be equivalent in oil terms of 100,000 barrels a day, renewable forever," Mr. Windsor said, noting that Newfoundland has been having discussions with such potential users as the Power Authority of the State of New York, and a number of energy intensive industries.

    Mr. Windsor also discussed other promising developments which offer new opportunities for investors.

    Thanks to the 200-mile limit, Newfoundland's landed volume of fish is expected to double by 1985.

    Over the past two years alone, landings have increased by 29 percent from 569,000 to the 739,- 000 metric tons expected this year. The upsurge in Newfound- land's fishing industry opens new opportunities for manufacturers of fishing gear, vessels, and related equipment, with even more opportunities for food processors capable of producing finished consumer products as well as companies in canning, bottling, pickling, and related product lines.

    Over $1 billion of the province's exports is ore, of which 85 percent is iron ore produced in Labrador.

    In addition to iron, the province produces zinc, asbestos, gypsum, copper, lead, gold, silver, cadmium, and talc. Recently, there have been finds of uranium, chromite, tungsten, and molybdenum.

    Due to 1977 legislation which increased the tempo of exploration, the number of stakes increased from 300 to 6,244 claims in 1979, with a further 13,099 claims in 1980.

    Labrador contains 41-million cords of high-quality spruce and fir which could lead to an annual cut of 150,000 cords. Pilot projects to ship the production via special icebreakers year-round have proved successful.

    Manufacturers of plastic products, sheet metal and cast items, marine electronics, survival and safety gear, and numerous other items should find Newfoundland a feasible and profitable site in the wake of the province's accelerated development tempo.

  • A cantilever-type jackup offshore oil drilling rig, named Dan King, was recently completed at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen for J.L. Offshore Drilling A/S, Denmark. Dan King is the first of three identical rigs to be constructed by Hitachi Zosen for the Danish company. A member of the J. Lauritzen

  • Ltd. has signed its largest order to date: a $30-million contract f o r a ship conversion. The conversion, from a heavy ore bulk carrier to an offshore oil drilling ship, follows a similar conversion by HUD in 1975, and its total worth when completed will be $80 million. "The deal reflects the increasing

  • The Actinia, a semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig, was recently completed at Hitachi Zosen's Ariake yard and delivered to the Actinia Shipping Corporation of Panama. Actinia is 82.3 meters long (270 feet), 60.96 meters wide (200-feet), and 35.36 meters high (116-feet). The rig is Hitachi Zosen'

  • Mitsui & Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, recently received an order from Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc. of the U.S. to build a semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig deliverable in July 1985. The rig will be a semisubmersible unit newly designed to be able to endure severe sea conditions. It will

  • Hitachi Zosen recently received an order for one semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig from Penrod Drilling Company, a member of the Hunt Group of Companies. The rig is the first semisubmersible one to be ordered from Hitachi Zosen. An Enhanced Pacesetter type designed by Friede & Goldman, Ltd.

  • The Soviet Union awarded a major offshore oil-drilling contract to a French consortium. The two Paris-based firms that won the contract are E.T.P.M. and U.I.E. The $110-million contract for the first Soviet attempt at deepwater oil drilling went to a French group that has never before supplied the

  • Division of Samson Ocean Systems engineers and produces rope and rope systems for the heavy marine market, the utilities market, the offshore oil drilling industry, and the commercial fishing industry. A graduate of San Francisco City College, Mr. Blanchette took postgraduate study at California S

  • . The new facilities will enable the yard to build much larger vessels, including deepsea tankers and cargoships, large ferries, large barges, and offshore oil drilling rigs. Vancouver Shipyards moved in 1967 from a small yard in Vancouver to their new larger plant in North Vancouver. The first year

  • Inc. of Houston, Texas, and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries recently announced an agreement for the construction of two offshore oil drilling rigs at Ingalls facilities in Pascagoula, Miss. Keyes Offshore president Bill Keyes said the first of the selfelevating "jackup" rigs

  • A jackup-type offshore oil drilling rig built at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen, Japan, was recently delivered to the National Drilling Company (NDC) of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Christened Junana, the slot-type drilling rig is one of three offshore drilling rigs (the other two are cantilever

  • spokesman Bob Hattoy said that retired people, real estate agents, chambers of commerce of local towns, hotel and restaurant owners are all opposing offshore oil drilling. Environmentalists say new offshore development could mar the area's rugged coastline and rich marine life, and that the government shou

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