Maritime Reporter, March 1983

<BODY> <div> J Swiss Fabricating Introduces Standard "Flyable" Buildings —Literature Offered Drawing on experience that has placed relocatable buildings from coast to coast, Swiss Fabricating of Pittsburgh has brought out a standard set. The company is now offering free literature describing their convenient, cost-saving structures. Designed for quick placement by con- tractors and shipyards, these rigid, light structures permit fast, easy, low-cost loca- tion or relocation exactly where needed by crane. The new standard Swiss structures are available at 50 feet by 40 feet and 42 feet by 40 feet. Both are built to 19-foot clear- ance at the eave. Building ends can be left opened or closed with doors and windows to specification. Swiss Fabricating relocatable structure. Footers or floors are not required. The four access ladders are supplied as illustrated. For copies of the free literature, Write 53 on Reader Service Card YOU >re WAV aheao I I'1 r J&S/* ST r. r 4 . • T n " Ss!l Around the clock. Turecamo's modern fleet of fast, pow- erful tugs stand ready to instantly provide you with the very best in towing services. Added to this are the years of invaluable ex- perience docking and undocking ships of all sizes and in every phase of towing operations. When you want fast, efficient and economical service...Call Turecamo First. DOCKING • UNDOCKING • harbor, sound, coastwise, canal and lake towing TURECAMO COASTAL & HARBOR TOWING CORP. PO BOX 201 ONE EDGEWATER STREET OYSTER BAY, N.Y. 11771 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. 10305 TEL: (212) 442-7400 MATTON TURECAMO MATTON TRANSPORTATION CO TRANSPORTATION CORP SHIPYARD CO. INC INC TURECAMO TANKERS INC Houston Systems Completes Custom Work On 4 New Rigs Houston Systems Manufacturing Com- pany, Houston, Texas, has completed the fabrication and rig-up of a workover/drill- ing platform rig for the Hercules Offshore Drilling Company, two trailerized desert rigs for USS Oilwell Supply and one mo- bile workover rig for Cooper Manufacturing Company. Each rig was a custom job and has been rigged-up to meet unique work- ing conditions. 34 Write 360 on Reader Service Card Hercules Workover/Drilling Platform Rig. The Hercules rig was built by HSMC/ Rig-Up Services for operation on limited space platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Uti- lizing a HSMC 450,000-pound telescoping mast and 1,000-hp Gardner Denver draw- works, the rig is designed for a working depth of 12,000 feet and to breakdown into 20,000-pound maximum loads for easy rig- up/rig-down. This is the third of this rig type HSMC has produced for Hercules. The Oilwell rigs also represent the latest in specialized drilling technology. Destined for the oil fields of Abu Dhabi to work for ADMASCO, these two desert rigs are rated to a depth of 9,000 feet and have been trailerized with oversized desert tires and skid-mounted mud systems. These are the fifth and sixth rigs HSMC/Rig-Up Services has built for USS Oilwell in 1982. The first two were 9,000-foot geothermal rigs which featured a unique mud cooling tower de- signed and fabricated by HSMC. Bound for Indonesia, they will drill for Pertamina, the national oil company. The other two, also for ADMASCO, were the 12,000-foot big brothers of the desert rigs currently under completion. The Cooper rig, rated at 16,000 feet, will go to Colombia for Texaco. Moves in rugged terrain will be made more effi- ciently with the compact, minimum-load HSMC design. HSMC /Thermotics produces steam gen- erators for enhanced oil recovery, and HSMC/Metrol Production Systems supplies oil and gas production equipment. HSMC/ Marine Systems fabricates motion compen- sators/tensioners and cranes for offshore drilling applications, and HSMC/En-Flo Valves produces high temperature valves for petroleum refining applications. For complete information on all services provided by Houston Systems Manufac- turing, Write 55 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>