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Only one of them, which belongs to the DeLong Engineering Co., is in operation at present, but it has captured the imagination of the seagoing oil industry (TIME, June...
...activity. On its 203-ft.-long platform, propped 38 ft. above the water, lay all the tools, cables, pipe and machinery needed for oil drilling. In the center stood an oil derrick, at one end a helicopter landing space and a small portable bunkhouse. Built by Manhattan's DeLong Engineering & Construction Co. and J. Ray McDermott Co. of Houston, and leased to Humble Oil, the odd-looking dock-barge is the first of its kind in the world, promises to be a great help in the hunt for offshore...
Until now, deep-water offshore drilling has been done from permanent platforms propped up on steel pilings. To move to another site, all the drilling machinery had to be loaded onto barges and moved separately. The DeLong-McDermott barge comes completely equipped-even with its own caissons. They are dropped to the ocean floor through holes in the hull, then jacks lift the hull above the water, making a solid platform for drilling. When the driller wants to move, he simply lowers the hull to the water and pulls up the caissons. DeLong figures that the whole operation should take...
...DeLong, which has been working on the 5,000,000-lb. barge with McDermott for the past year, is building a second unit capable of operating in 100 ft. of water, will lease it to Magnolia Petroleum Co. Barge No. 2 will be a deluxe model, with air-conditioned living quarters for a crew...
...Year." ^ Seattle University Basketball Player Johnny O'Brien, who set a national scoring record of 2,618 points in a four-year career that still has 22 games to go. Little (5 ft. 9 in.) Center O'Brien broke the record of 2,592 held by Nate DeLong of Wisconsin State College. ¶Jockey Tony DeSpirito, who got back in the saddle again after a ten-day suspension, to ride 15 more winners and bring his season total to 385. With two days of the season left, DeSpirito was just three short of the record for winners...