petroleum
Bethlehem Beaumont To Build Self-Setting Production-Storage Platform For Phillips Petroleum
The Lafayette, La., office of Phillips Petroleum Company has awarded a contract to Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard for construction of a selfsetting production-storage platform. It will have a liquid hydrocarbon storage capacity of 11,
James Moseley Heads Port Of Jacksonville Propeller Club
James F. Moseley, a leading admiralty attorney and past president of the Jacksonville Bar Association is the new president of The Propeller Club of the United States Port of Jacksonville (Fla.), an organization that has more exthan 400 members
New Service Offered To Develop Oil Spill Response Plans
Owners and operators of tank vessels calling at U.S. ports are in a predicament. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and proposed Coast Guard regulations require tank vessel owners and operators to prepare and submit oil spill response plans for each vessel.
1993 International Oil Spill Conference Issues Call For Papers
The 13th biennial International Oil Spill Conference on the prevention, behavior, control and cleanup of oil spills will be held March 29 to April 1,1993 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. The conference will be sponsored by the U.
China Shipbuilding Will Build Third Jackup For Santa Fe International
Santa Fe International Corporation, Alhambra, Calif., has announced that it has placed an order for a new jackup drilling rig to work initially in the Gulf of Suez. The new unit, Rig 136, will be the company's fourth offshore drilling rig under construction in Far East shipyards.
Diamond Shamrock To Charter Chemical Tanker Building At Avondale
Ogden Marine, Inc., an Ogden Corporation subsidiary, has announced that one of the two new tankers to be built at Ogden's Avondale Shipyards, Inc. has been chartered on a long-term basis to Diamond Shamrock Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, to transport chemical cargoes between U.