The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 30, 1972 Page: 9 of 17
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Reynolds Sheffield, Ma. Half
Will Test Soviet-Made Equipment
WEDNESDAY. AUODET SO. 1171
First Unit Half Completed
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LeTourneau Gets New Contract;
Payroll Now $250,000 A Month
---THE AICKITBCrs sketch ot what the first gigantic “new generation”
deep-tea drilling platform now under production at IHC Holland-LaTourneau
Fabricators, Ltd., Tngloaido. will look like when it is completed, “walked into
the water” and then tugged to its drilling site. Innovations tar the new unit in-
clude a new hydraulic drive and control system for a continuously engaged and
variable speed elevating system. The self mobilising system, utilizing the der-
rick as a lifting facility, positions 90-toot long leg sections from vertical storage
on deck to connecting poeitions for extension of each of the platform's three
legs. There are specious deck areas devoted to drilling operations, a variable load
of S,000 tons and the 70-foot per hour bull jacking speed.
IHC Holland-LeTourneau Fa-
bricators, Ltd.—one of this
area's growing family of in-
dustrial complexes—is already
employing approximately 400
persons and baa just signed a
contract for construction of its
third “new generation" jack-up
drilling platform.
R. L. LeTourneau, president
of the firm which has its head-
quarters in Longview, announc-
ed that the newest contract for
one of the company’s giant off-
shore drlllingplattorinstafrom
Maersk Oil Drilling Corpora-
tion and Maersk Boreentre-
prise, subsidiaries of A. P.
Moller of Copenhagen, Den-
mark.
LeTourneau said this firm's
platform will be placed in
Danish waters in tee North Sea
and designed for use in 900- •
foot deep water.
He told a group of area In-
dustrialists and news media
representatives touring tee
construction yard that the
firm’s first platform job is
“about one-half completed.” It
Is being constructed for Penrod
Drilling Company of Dallas with
a completion date slated in
December.
At present, the company-
located near Ingleslde and Rey-
nolds Metals—Is working two
eight-hour shifts a day, five
days a week.
The company president said
tee firm's current payroll is
RICHMOND, Va.—Equipment mum plant
Is now being shipped from tee J. Louis Reynolds, Chairman
Soviet Union to a Reynolds of the Board of Reynolds Inter-
Metals Company facility In Ala- national and Executive Vice
bama for tee pouring of alum- president of Reynolds Metals,
some $950,000.00 a mooth. The huge platforms will be raiseo inum ingot by an electro- made tee announcement here
majority of LaTourneau's em- on the unit therefore allowing magnetic process. This will be today in connection with a meet-
ployees are welders, he said, “skids” to be placed under it tee first machine of its kind to mg with Boris. E. Kurakin,
He also said that at present and then the legs will be used be installed in a U. S. alum- Director o<Ucensintorg,aSov-
teere Is a 24-bour-a-day pro- to “walk tee platform off the —— mt agency established to buy and
gram for training 100 more skids” into tee water where it ocean floor. sell Soviet technology,
welders under way In a build- can be tugged to Its drilling The newest contract cate* fr Reynolds said that Reynolds
ing in Corpus Chrlstl. They site destination. tee third platform to be com- has had an agreement with Llc-
wlU be employed when their LeTourneau said tee com- pleted sometime In 1973 and on enslntorg for tee electro-
training is finished. The teach- pany can build platforms with It’s way from Ingleslde, Teas magnetic process since Decern-
ing program Is through tee legs capable of reaching 430- to tee deep waters of tee North her of 1971 and teat the first
Del Mar Technical Institute, feet below tee work area of tee Sea.
The second unit—on orderby ___i ■ i i mto 4-----------------j
Petrobras Oil Agency of Brazil
—la scheduled for tee beginning
of construction “In tee near
future”. LeTourneau said the
cost of the “new generation”
offshore drilling rig is $2
million.
However, he pointed out teat
tee cost of each platform is
different depending upon spec-
ifications.
The visitors were shown
where a dredge is working near-
by cuttings 26-foot deep launch-
ing zone which will lead to the
deep water in tee CorpusChrlsti
ship channel.
It was explained by company
$K00
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Bonus in Stamp
See Reynolds P-9B
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This Coupon is worth 50 extra Stamps (the same as you get
! with a $5.00 purchase) when presented with a $2 50 or more
purchase.
DuBoae Drug Store
* Rvtlll*r stamps also given for total purchases.
it this
to be eligible.
bankAmericard
Pit CUSTOMER w- Expires Sept. 6.
Bowhunting Will Be Permitted
Or Two Natl Wildlife Rnf uges
Archers may kill one deer of before sunrise on succeeding
either sex, one javelins and as days,
many of tee feral hogs as they The bag limit on tee Laguna
can find. Atascosa Refuge, located 20
• irnwrirn ____ —"Mn^mmiiT The bunt 18 °**n to a11 arch" miles east of Harlingen, is one
AUSTIN-Two national wild- 35 miles north of Rockport, ers, tee only requirements be- deer, either sex, per hunter,
life refuges will be open to Sept 21-25, Sept. 29-Oct. 2 and ing a valid state hunting license No other form of wildlife may
bowhunting this year—the Oct. 6-9. and payment of the refuge’s be hunted.
Aransas National Wildlife Ref- The refuge will be open from dally entrance fee of $1 per car. Hunters on bote refuges are
uge and the i-agim, Atascosa 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on those The Laguna Atascosa hunts expected to know and obey state
National Wildlife Refuge. days except on Sept. 21, toe will be Oct. 6-8, 13-15, 20-22 and federal hunting regulations.
Bowhunters will be allowed first day, when it will open at and 27-29. Gates wiU open at No camping is permitted on
on tee Aransas Refuge, located noon. noon on Friday and one hour either refuge.
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Attend Our Punt, Pass & Kick Clinic
You have a good chance at winning one of want to start you on the road to football fame
J8 local trophies in our 1972 PP&K,Compe
tition because you compete only
against boys your own
age. The only difference Is
practice. Bring your
parents into our
showroom, sign up, get
your free PPBiK
Tips Book, then
attend our clinic. You'll
get all the help you could
You could go all the way td the National PP&K
Finals at the Pro Bowl in Dallas.
ajmcFarrs
10 A.M. SATURDAY
SEPT. 30
Tim* SOM*
ROOSEVELT STADIUM
MARVIN MAREK
Official In Ch*rg*
IT'S FREE . . . REGISTER NOW AND BE READY FOR THE CLINIC
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 30, 1972, newspaper, August 30, 1972; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996421/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.