10.0 November 1962
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10.0 November 1962
PBIIIBCOP Vol. 10 No. 10 TRANS-ARABIAN PIPE LINE COMPANY, BEIRUT, LEBANON November 1962 Tapline Board Approves 1963 Budget Items The Fall meeting of Tapline's Board of Directors was held in Dhahran October 10. Parent Company Directors G. L. Parkhurst of Standard Oil Company of California, H. W. Page of Standard Oil Company (~ew Jersey), lIan'ey Cash of Texaco, Inc., and II. C. Moses of Socony Mobil Oil Company, wcre present, together with Directors T. C. Barger (President of Aramco), and W. R. Chandler and R. P. Cocke of Tapline. President John Noble, currently recuperating in New York from an operation, wa absent. Tapline' capital and operating budgets for 1963 were presented to the Board, and were approved. In addition, the tentati\'c budgets for 1964 were pre en ted for information of the Board. The principal items in the 1963 capital budget were the Sidon Terminal Improvement Program, amounting to 340,000, and a 250,000 appropriation for replacement of mobile and work equipment. Initially presented to and approved by the Board last May, the 1963 Sidon Terminal Improvement Program is an extension of the 1962 program and covers modifications to loading berths at Sidon to achieve higher loading rates to the very large tankers which are expected to load at Sidon in the coming years. Pictured abore at Turm!,s airstrip are, froll/ left, Hellry C. "1;[oses, Hart·ey Cash, .11rs. H. n'. Page, Jolm R. Terry, 11,[rs. lvJoses, J. 1. Johnston, Arall/co U. S. A. offices' General lHanager; R. P. Coc!,e, "ice President, Secretary aud Treasurer, NYO; G. L. Parkhurst, William R. Chandler, George F. Heide, ,'11'. Page and George O. Lillabury. The main item is a new 36 inch line, nearly 7,000 feet long, to be installed in Berth 1 to supplement present 18 inch and 20 inch lines. Berth I, which is now capable of berthing 100,000 deadweight ton tankers following the extension of existing lines into deeper water this Fatl, will be capable of loading rates as high as 75,000 barrels per hour after the new 36 inch loop is installed in 1963. This loading rate will be equal to or in excess of maximum rates at modern loading terminals elsewhere in the world, and will assist in keeping Tapline competiti\'e by handling very large tankers quickly and efficiently. An additional item in the 1963 Sidon program will be the replacement of the present 12 inch loading hose in Berth No. 4 with a 16 inch hose, thereby raising the maximum loading rate of that berth from 24,000 barrels per hour to 41,000 BPH. The principal equipment items to be purchased in 1963, aside from usual normal replacement of sedans and other light vehicles, will be the purchase of 22 new welding machines to replace old machines currently in use at all locations. A 15 ton crane is also being purchased for replacement of a worn out unit and a new rock crusher and loader \\·ill be added to the road spread. The Board also re\'iewed and apprO\'ed Tapline's plans for completion of the Pressure Increase Program started in 1956. This program, based upon modern theories developed by Tapline of the causes of pipe failure under \'arying conditions of pressure and temperature, has permitted Tapline to develop operating pressures more than 20 percent higher than those common in the pipeline industry generally. Pressure test work already completed has made it possible to increase Tapline's potential capacity by about 45,000 barrels per day without adding to investment. The remammg pressure tests, which it is hoped will be conducted this winter and early in the spring, should add another 10,000 BPD to Tapline's potential capacity. Directors Stop to Tour Turaif Four Tapline Directors representing the owner companies were in Beirut October 4 and 5 and departed for Dhahran via Turaif on October 6. Accompanied by Executi\'e Yice President William R. Chandler, the group stopped briefly at the latter pump station for a short inspection tour and lunch at the Community Center. The group consisted of Mr. Harvey Cash, of Texaco, Mr. H. W. Page, of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Mr. G. L. Parkhurst, of Standard Oil Company of California, and Mr. Henry C. Moses, of Socony l\lobiI. loses l\Iessrs. Page and were accompanied by their wives. • Page 2 PIPELI E PERISCOPE PIPELI E PERISCOPE IN THE SAUDI NATIONALS PLACE FIRST, SECOND IN SAFETY CONTEST Abdllllah Abdul-Rahmall Faleh (foregrolllld) alld Saleh F. Bllhairan, t<'110 recelltly became the first Saudi Arab Tapliners to be trained in Beirut on medical laboratory techniques. (Photo by Nasr). ~ T. Shan, actillg l'omtiollal tralll11lg instructor at Aramco's Abqaiq Industrial Trailllllg Shops tmtches as Tapliner Akla JIassan, of Tllraij's Central Jlachille Shop, "'orks 011 a shaft threadillg project. Akla recelltl" completed a special three-month training assigllment at Abqaiq. (Aram;o photo by A. L. }·ouslf). :\Iachine Tool Operator .-\kla I1a an ha just resumed his dutie at Turaif's Central :\Iachine hop after becoming the second Saudi Arab Tapliner to complete a special three-month training course at Aramco's Industrial Training Shop In Abqaiq. Combination welder uhammad Salim Qahtani, of Turaif's Central \Velding Shop, was the first Saudi Arab employee to complete such special training last year at Aramco's Industrial Training Shops III Ras Tanura. Born 10 kata, Saudi Arabia orne 25 years ago, Akla joined Tapline at Turaif on Jannuary 7, 1956 PERISCOPE R•• p. Director; Editor Artist M. K. Saab F. C. Najia Vartan Bezdikian Reporte" : Badanah Badih Haddad Beirut Rose Sawdah Jordan John Franjleh New York Qollumah Page 3 R. M. Weeks John Nehme Rofha S. S. Dabaghl Sidon Dr. G. M. Stephan Richard Khattar Turaif H. Overhagen M. Sultan as a houseboy janitor. After being reclassified as ;\lachinist four months later, he was promoted to I\lachine Tool Attendant in ,eptember 1956 and to lachine Tool Operator in September 195 . E\'er since he joined Tapline' ranks, Akla has been an acti\'e student of the company Development School at Turaif. lIe has also attended bi\\ eekly courses gi\'en at the machine shop for company employees assigned to Central I\lecanical. In the e es ions, employees learn to read blueprints and are taught mathematic and arithmetic related to their work in the shop. Akla's training a signment in Abqaiq is part of the new company training policy adopted early in 1961 for the development of nationals in Saudi Arabia. nder this policy, a committee, composed of the General, enior and Station Superintendents, The Company Representative - Pipe Line Area, and the Staff Coordinator Employee Development, nominates approximately ten percent of the Saudi Arab employees, who have demonstrated a high degree of initiative in their job performance, for consideration for accelerated training programs above the scope of the normal training efforts. TWO SAUDI MEDICAL TAPLINERS TAKE LAB TRAINING IN BEIRUT Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Faleh and Saleh F. Buhairan, of Tapline's Base Hospital in Badanah, arrived in Beirut in mid-October on a six to tweh'e months training program in medicallaboratory techniques. They are the first Saudi Arab Tapliners to receive uch training outside of their country. Abdallah, who has been with Tapline since May 1956, and Saleh, whose service date is eptember 1958, will be trained at the Beirut clinic laboratory by Senior X-Ray and Laboratory Technician Sarkis Sarkissian. Their training program will cover all fields of medical laboratory work, including bacteriology, biochemistry, parasitology, hematology and serology. . Upon successful completIOn of their training, Abdallah and aleh will be transferred as laboratory technicians to one of the pump station hospitals along the 'Line. H the training program proves to be successful, other Saudi Arab medical employees will be trained in the same field. THE CRADLE ROW Beirut Deirdre Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Durrance. Qaryatain Tamathor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Muhammad Takrouri Rafha Saud, son of 1r. and Mrs. Turaikhim Ateek Sidon Khadijeh, daughter of I\lr. and 1rs. Toufic Sebrawi Turaif lariam, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Abdul-Aziz Abdullah I\l0na, daughter of Ir. and Irs. Abdullah Muhammad. OPERATIONS REPORT Average BPD received at Sidon Ships loaded Average BPD loaded on ships Average size of ships loaded Average BPD delivered to ships, Medreco and IPC September 288,143 40 269,587 221,340 284,689 Year 1962 331,225 396 314,102 225,450 327,432 Pipeline throughput suffered a setback in September when it finished at 288,142 bearrels a day, more than 38,500.barrels below the August daily average. Deliveries from SIdon also to?k a sizable dip in September, averaging 284,689 BPD, agamst 304,098 BPD in August. Probable average deliveries from Sidon for October are 399,000 BPD. Turaif's Floor and Bench l\lechanic I\luhammad Saleh Rumaih won the first prize (a Swiss-made alarm clock) in a contest recently organized by Safety Engineering. Subject of the safety contest, which was open to all Tapline employees in pump stations along the 'Line and Sidon Terminal, was a Periscope picture which depicted an unsafe condition of work in progress at a pumphouse in Saudi Arabia. Station Maintenance Supervisor Ali Hassan, also of Turaif, won second prize in the contest - a wiss army knife. In all, a total of 13 employees participated in the safety contest. Aside from the winner and runner-up, they are: ;\luhammad Taki Abdullah, Muhammad Ahmad Turaifi, Attallah Annel, Muhammad al-Kublan and Georges Hanna, of Turaif; Lafi Naif, AbdulRazzak Ali and Dr. Marcel Prince, of Badanah; Saad Abdullah Majid and Saad Dabaghi, of Rafha; and Suleiman Salloum, of Qaisumah. In commenting on the proper use of scaffolds, which was the ubject of the safety contest, afety Engineering in Beirut said: "Scaffolding is a major source of fatal injuries and permanent disabilities. Each type of scaffold which is designed or prefabricated for easy and quick erection on the job site, has some inherent safety features to safeguard against hazards of the job and to minimize the chances of accident. "The scaffold which was the subject of the safety contest is of the built-up, sectional frame type, made of prefabricated tubular steel transverse frame panels. To erect the scaffold, the frames are placed one on top the other and are connected lengthwise by horizontal tie bracers to make a rigid structure. "The safety of scaffolds built from such frames largely depends on the method of erection, on the care taken to incorporate the safety feature inherent in the scaffold de ign, and on the sound judgement of the erectors regarding the safety of the constituting parts. "To benefit from all the safety features that are built into a sectional caffold of the safety contest type, the following rccommendations should be followed: "1. Be sure that footing is firm and solid and make certain that the scaffold is plumb and level at all times. "2. Provide a safe access to each platform or working level of the scaffold ..\ fixed ladder, in this case, would be mo t uitable. The ladder hould be firmlv secured to the caffold a~d the rails of the ladder should extend at least 3 ~ feet abo\'e the upper platform of the scaffold. A portable ladder could be used only if the scaffold is to be used for a \'ery short time. "3. Provide guard railings around the outer edges of all working platforms, regardless of height. Toe boards must he used too if working condition, require such protection. "oj.. :\lake sure all wing nut and locking de\'ices are tight. "5. :\Take sure that planks and prefabricated platforms are sound and sturdy. Provide necessar\ means an"d fittings to prevent their mO\'ement on the scaffold. "6. Provide head protection for the men on the top platform and the men working belo\\ to protect them from falling objects if such hazard e\.ists. I. Keep all caffold members in good condition, and never use defecti\e material." - TI'inners of the safety contest 011 the proper use of caffold" nlllch teas recelltly orgam:::ed by Safety En~/nl<'nnlf for employees in 'audi ,Irabia alld Sidon, ruched thcn meards at Turmf from Safety Em:/ncer FlItt':::i 11. Najm (right) 011 October 16. They are Turmf's Floor alld Bent'h .1Techamc .1luhammad Saleh Hummh (eentu), t<'l/O tcon a triss-made alarm clock for first pn:::e, and Statlllll .\llIl1Itenallce SlIpert'/wr ..lh Jia.<san, nlw reai1 ed a Striss army Iwije for ranl<ing second in the cOllte,/. (Photo by \lustafa Ashayer). Badanah's fire crete successfully extinguished a dallgerous fire at a sen'ice station ill 'Ar'ar on the N'ellillg of September 13. The fire teas brought under control in about half all hour and completely extillguished t<'ithin olle hour only. A large number of Badanah Taplillers helped control the dangerous bla:::e t<'llich started right near a 7,OOO-gallon storage tallk. TVater and foam ture first sprayed over the tank and then f('ater tcas used to Pllt off the fire in the bllilding shotCII abol·e. (Photo courtesy of Gene Wood). Page 4 SU PIPELI E PERISCOPE ER E DS A D SCHOOLS BEGI FOR TAPLI ESTUDE TS For .\merican Tapliners stationed along the 'Line, in ~idon and in Beirut, the coming of .\utumn meant the d~parture of sons and daughters to classes after the summer plea ure of ha\'ing them around. • eeking education "abroad" from Beirut are: John . 'oble Jr., 25, a fourth year ·tudent at olumbia V ni\ er'itv' medical ,chool, ,,'ew York City, .'. Y.; Christopher _,oble, 23, junior, Par'ons College, Fairfield Iowa ; George • 'oble, 21, junior, Bo ton Cniverity, Bo ton, :\Ia achusett ; Ba'rbara Chandler, 20, a junior at eattle C ni\'erity \\'ashington; Da\'id Robin on, 19, ophomore Wofford College, partanburg, ~outh Carolina' Da\"is Arne, 13, eighth grade, Arnesbun" , chool, Hindhead, England; Christian Campbell, 22, sophomore, Univer ity of Zurich, Zurich, witzerland; Andrew Campbell, H, grade 11, Ecole ~ouvelle, Paudex, witzerland; Jeanne Locher, 21, enior, Cni\'er itv of Colorado, Boulder, C'olo.; Anne Locher, 20, junior, immon College, Bo ton, :\Ia .; Diane Burnett, H, grade 9, Prof. Busar' Girl'. chool, Teufen, , \\'itzerland; George aIm, 10, grade 6, Alderwa ley Hall, :\Iatlock, England; J ame Corrigan III, 16, grade 12, and Ruth Ellen Corrigan, H, grade 10, at Wantagh High chool, \\'antagh, . 'ew York; Elizabeth .'e\\, 19, sophomore, Goudier College, Towson, ::\Iaryland; and Glen Ewing, I , fre hman, Cornell Uniyersity, .'ew York. In the same category from the pump stations are: Gerald Hargrove, 19, sophomore, :\Ionterey State College, ::\Ionterey, California; Dane \rood, 14, grade 9, • 'escopeck High School, ••escopeck, Penna.; James Foody Jr., 14, third form, BEIRUT TENNIS TEAM DOWNS ARABIA TO WIN NOBLE CUP Ke\·in O'Hagan, 11, grade 6. Bruce Thompson, 7, grade 2, and Robbins Thompson, 4, kindergarten, are at Sidon's Gerard Institute. Sixth grader Daniela Bowe, 13, is enrolled at the Italian School for Girls in Beirut. .\ total of more than one hundred .\merican Tapline ·tudent· in October wiped an a umulation of summer du·t from their books and headed back to their schools. Back to classes at the American Commllnity chonl in ReI nil after the long slimmer holiday are, from left, Janice and Deborah Qllid', Jlary ,-Inn S('f" and IIsan Dreier. (Photo by Sa r). Delbarton School, :\Iorristown, •. ew Jersey; :\Iargaret Foodv, 12, grade 7, Rosarian Academy, We t Palm Beach, Florida; Rae FoodY, 9, grade +, Gulli\'er • chool, Coconut GrO\'e, Florida; Chri tine Heide, 16, grade 12, :\Iarymount International cho~l, Rome, Italy; Georgette Druley, 20, ju~i or, niversity of Arizona, Tucson, Ari"zona; Lynda Wright, 1 grade 12, Robert E. Lee High chool, Tyler, Texas; tephan Putnam, 14, grade 8, Greenbrier I\Iilitary School, Lewisburg, West Yirginia; Paul Booth, H, grade 10, otre Dame International School, Rome, Italy; and Gordon Ragsdale, 19, who i with the Marine Corps in San Diego, California. ACS AND OTHERS Among Tapline students enrolled at the American Community chool in Beirut are Gail Chandler, 16, high chool senior; Kathleen Tracey, 13, grade 9; Pamela Putnam, 17, high school enior; 1\Iary Ann • ,ew, 11, grade 7; Ge~evieve 1 e\\, 9, grade +; Craig Ewing, 13, grade ; William Burnett, 11, grade 6; Barbara Burnett, 7, grade 3; :\Iary Loui Kelberer, 9, grade 4; :\Iargarett .\nn Kelberer, 7, econd grade; Barbara Jean Kelberer, 5, kindergarten; Pamela Fullerton, 7, grade 3; Dougla Fullerton, 6, first grade; Su an Dreier, 13, grade ; Ann Dreier, 9, grade 5; Henry Dreier, 5, first grade; John Prusinski, 11, grade 6; Anna Prusinski, 9, grade 4; ean O'Hagan, 13, grade 9; David Swan on, 6, fir t grade; Deborah Quick, 12, grade 7; Janice Elizabeth Quick, 11, grade 6; tephen Reed, 12, grade 7; 'orman Reed, 11, grade 6; Richard Sweetman, 12, grade 7; ,andra Sweetman, 10, grade 5; Gail Hill, 11, grade 6; Lynn Hill, ,grade 3; and Richard Arnold, 13, grade Attending cia "es in Beirut at the Sale ian Boys chool are Robert Zuk~ ki, 11, grade 6; Richard Quick, 6, second grade; John Locher, 9, grade 3; John I\Iichaei Kelberer, II, grade 6; and J The fourth and last m'imming pool along the Tapline system was officially opened at Rafha September 21, when the Sfcimming Pool Association there im:itl!d its members to a barbecue dinner of hot dogs and hamburgers. Edith oble, 7, grade 3, Jemima Sabini, , grade 4, • 'ina Dodge, 8, grade 4, and l\Ielissa Dodge,S, fir t grade, are students at the College Protestant de Jeunes Filles. Bayard Dodge, 7, is a second grader at the British ommunity School. 1I1embers of the Beinll "'I1l1ll1lg team alld ('f'enl ,fi,mers received indi~'idllaltrophies donated 011 beltalf of Tapline by ExeClltit'e Vice President William R. Chandler. ShO?C1I abO? e from left are lIIr. Chandler, John P. O'Hagan, ,lithe Ajhar, William A. Robinson, ,'Irs. Dat'id S. Dodge, Shaft'ki Freiha, .\frs. Roblf/son, Donald 11', Dreier, Dr.•1farcel N. Prince, Jfr. Dodf(e and !JlIIry F. !Jopper. 'LINE SCHOOLS While thirth-fi\e children were in attendan e at ,'enior :taff , chools in Saudi .\rabia during the pa t academic year, the pre ent chool cenu hows that thirty-one children ans\\ ered the call to classe this Fall. ,~ixteen children are attending cia ses at Turaif \\ith :\Ie"dames R. E. Sabbagha, K. 11. Aoun and R. II. Putnam as their teachers. They are first graders :\Iei Ying Overhagen, Peter Putnam and E\'erett Robertson Jr.; second graders \'ictor Gysen, Glen Terry, and Deborah Olsen; third graders Lyn Putnam, hris . charn 'and John A. Wood J r.; fourth graders James Terry, Allen Ilansen, Linda , cha~n and :uzanne Wood; fifth grader 1\Iirion Janice Robert on; ixth grader Diane Alice Wood; and Dorothy Gysen, grade Page 5 Tapline's Beirut racqueteers overwhelmed their Arabian counterpartes, 17 match points to 8, and clinched the Noble Cup in a four-day tennis tournament that ended October 14 at the Tapline Sporting Club courts. Donated by Mrs. oble, wife of Tapline President John Noble, The Noble Cup was presented to ,hawki Freiha, captain of the Beirut winning team, by Executi\'e Vice President William R. Chandler October 14 at the club. Member of the winning team and event winners also received individual trophies donated by Tapline. Event winners were Dr. Marcel N. Prince, of Badanah, who whipped Donald \Y. Dreier, of Beirut, 6-3, 6-1, to win the singles finals; Harry F. Hopper, also of Badanah, who teamed with Dr. Prince to edge the Dreier-David . Dodge combination 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, in the men's doubles; and the Mrs. William A. Robin on-Dreier tandem, \\ho downed the team of 1r. and l\Ir . Dodge, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, to take the mixed doubles. Tapliners on the 'Line team were: Dr. and :\Irs. Prince, 1\1r. Hopper, John i\. Samaha, George Ziady, Joe Sayegh, Hanna Faddoul, l\Iichel :\Ioussa, George F. Heide, :\lrs. Jacob D. Thaddeus and l\like Khairallah. Dreier, Freiha, the Dodges, :\Iike .-\jhar, H. D. Lambert, Sami Kurban, the Robin ons, John P. O'Hagan and Joseph Salm were on the Tapline-Beirut quad. (PHOTO, BY :\ASR) Jl,fembers of tlte Salldi 11t'obiall team 't'ere, stallding from left, 1I1ichel MOllssa, lilts. Jacob Thaddeus, George Ziady, .1 Irs. J\larcel Prince alld Joltn N. Samalto .. alld Iweeling, George F. lIeide, Dr. Prince and !JOIry F. !Jopper. NOI at'ailable for tlte photograph 't'ere Ilanna Faddolll, Joe Sayegh alld ,Hil,e Khairallalt . Shat"ki Freiha (right), captain of the Beirut "'i""in/( temlls team, receit'es the Noble CliP from Execlilit'e I'ice President William R. Chandler, 1 'ine ons and daughters of Badanah Tapliners are under the tutorship of ::\lrs. H. Hargrove and :\1rs. J. Samaha. Thev are second graders Aziz "I1iya, Dudley Booth, Sereen Thaddeus and Cynthia Samaha; third grader Caroline Cro thwait; fifth graders Terry and Kelly Arnold; ixth grader tephen Booth; and seventh grader Patricia Lee. T. Six youngsters at Rafha have Mrs. R. Ragsdale as their schoolmarm. They are Patricia Jensen and Pat and Mike Babb, grade 3; Stanley Tracey, grade 4; Charles Babb, grade 5; and Altha Jensen, grade 6. Donald Dreier in action at the four-day tennis tOllrney. Dreier lost the singles finals, men's dOllbles finals bllt won a tight mi:..-ed doubles finals fdth 111rs. William A. Robinson against the Dat·id S. Dodges. Tapline .\lanagement hosted a buffet di,mer at the Tapline Sporting Club, October II, in honor of the 'Line and Beirut tennis teams. Shoft'n abot'e tasting the buffet delicacies are, from left, William .-1. RobiJlSon, Jfrs. Willard E,t'ing, lIfr. and ,11rs. George F. Heide and Harry F. Hopper. The 30-inch, t 103 ft. exten ion stnng of Berth So. 3 crude Ii"e is still on shore ready for lallnching. The mam st 'I ng f( as SII nk by floodlllg '" th 'W ttl. 1.1", \ Jrmn ft 111< h" (/,,/t) und 'lli \llw, \ hUll) 'lilt chu",ber , IIch a the one on the light, ,ure faltflled to tlie nl<'"' ,trmg, ,d,ich , <II th, n I.ft,d 0 til< f(/ bott""" to,ced mto posltum and fla"g,d to th exISting md '1 Hath J crud, 1111<. Seconds before the pipe section ,ras completely float'd on sea. Tn 'rater, the e\tension ,ras plllled by tno terminal launches. Pipe Launching Operation: The extension strlll,l( of Berth o. 3 crude line 't'as plllled alit by a bulldo:::er (left) ,eith the help of three D-7 sideboom tractor. II J) 7 do:::er ft'a also IIsed as a hold back. MEN AND MACHINES AT WORK The story of launching a submarine crude line pipe-extension weighing some 131,500 pounds into the sea is a colorful and bu ding picture of men and machines at work. The Periscope camera lens covered such a story at Sidon Terminal September 28-29, when aI, 103 ft. pipe string of 30-inch diameter was launched to the sea to extend the Berth o. 3 crude line in deeper water to accommodate larger supertankers. Late in October, the main string was lifted off the sea bottom, towed into position and flanged to the end of the existing Berth ~o. 3 crude line. All work pertaining to the extension of the two Berth ~o. 3 lines i scheduled for completion by mid-November, weather permitting. Following its extension, Berth 1\0. 3 now measures 6,7 0 ft. The last section of 20-inch pipe extending Sidon's Berth ~o. I, on the other hand, was installed on September 10. T e two crude lines of Berth .'0. I were extended 2,200 ft. seaward and the berth va back in operation on October 9. Following its extension, Berth. '0. now measures 6,700 ft. (PHOTO, BY • 'A. R). Front-end sled of the pIpe e.\tm 10" 'chich ,ra II 'a te/ung closely the p,pe lallndnng operatum art , fm", I,,/t, HOI",gu of Optlatum U"hut A. I'm III k" S,do" Ter",inal Suptrmt",dfTIt .Ibner .1. !lricklllll/H, r"",ptmlla 0 wr '1'.....·nl1/1"u• • 'tlI/OI H"gilll r Con tructitm F II. \",~, a",1 Chief Hng,nar I'lptlllle U. U. !lllmrtt fla"ged on both end . Roller-guides also helped SIIpport the crude line pipe extension on hore. The extension ft·fighed some 131,500 pounds. .\lore than one thousand and one hundred feet of pIpe completely floated. Before .t ,cas sunk, the main string fL'QS anchored andfasterred to fLinch linn from SIIpporting pontoons (right) and to au.\iliary buoya"t chambns (left, background). Robert G. Thompson • . 1 sistant Suptrint nd/TIt ',d,m, U es the radio to coordinate ,wrk bet"een shore and sea operatIOns durmg launching of the pipe exterr ion. A flail signal beacon ,ca al 0 reudy for al/xiliary s,gnal m co e of radio fmlllre dllnng the launching operatIOn of the PIP exten ion to Berth No. 3 crude Ime. Page PIPELI E PERISCOPE Qaisumah Station Superintendent and Mrs. Dudley P. Harbin played hosts in early October at a turkey-dinner gi\'en to welcome Dr. Michel Khoury, of the Badanah Ba e Hospital taff, upon arrival in Qai 'umah to relieve Dr. Hanna Wanna, who is on yacation. Joe Sayegh and John ehme attended the function. Incidentallv, word i- around that Dr. \vanna will return to the fold engaged. ongratulations and good luck in ad\'ance, Saad Salim Harbi, of Badanah Government Relation, arrived here in late eptember to relieve our Local Company Representative, Muhammad Abdul Rahman, who left for Jordan with his family on vacation. Fahad and Fhaid Suleiman ha\'e resumed their duties here following local leave. Tahnoon Muhammad has al 0 reported back to work in :\Iotor Transport following a long holiday pent in Hayel, Dammam, al-Khobar and Rivadh. Good luck to Qai umah's Office upen'i or Othayeb Mutlaq who left here in mid- eptember on lea\'e. Othayeb drO\'e his newlyacquired :\Iercede sedan to Lebanon, vria and Turkev. There is a 'good chance for Othayeb to return here with a bride. Yacationer are Rashid Fahd, Muhammad Junaif, Juraidi Khalifa, Muhammad Ghazi, Hamad Hathai, Fahd Suleiman, Ali Has him, Muhammad Mansour, Mouhine Elias, Tahnoon Muhammad and H. H. Hoeksma. Holidays are meanwhile O\'er for Abdallah Khalaf, Muhammad asser, Juhayem Dumairi and Hmood Alayan. Fahd Jllltiaq (standing, second from left), Qawlmah's station matntenance sllpert'isor, /lInted all company employees at QaiSlimah in addition to ...Jmir J/llhammad KllI/,miter, go,'ernorate official and abollt 200 to,,,,,speople to a dumer party early /lI October to celebrate III mme to a nefC Salld/ Home O,,,,,ership Plm, hOllse. ,.Jside from cabbages and egg-plants, fifteen stllffed lambs, t,centy trays of rice and t,cClIty-fit'e fried chickm ,rere consllmed at the dinner party. Shm"" abo"e at the honor table, from left, are J111ni' Sasser, Raafat Farah, 101111 .Yehme, tat/on IIperintendent Dlldley P. Harbin, ,'/mir Khllfmiter, Dr. Jlichel G. Khollry and Sick GOllfceloos. tanding from left are la::::::a' Jrllbarak, the ho. t Fahd Jllltlaq, Hmood Fahd and Baslllr Onai:::an. (Photo by SlIlelllwn allollm). Badanah The annual imentory of Storehouse materials . was completed here during the last week of September by Adel Noujaim, of Beirut, Duaij Ali and Hathal Said. "'arm welcomes were extended to Dr. and Mrs. Chukri M. Soulban, on return to Badanah from holida\'; Dr. Antoine M. S abe r, on arri\'al from Rafha; Hathal and Muhammad Said, on return here from a long holiday in Lebanon; Miss Hiyam K a ibn i , on return from medical leave in Beirut; Mrs. John Arnold, on return from Beirut where she placed her son Richard at the American Community School; Clarence P. Booth, on return to the fold from medical leave in Beirut, where he also processed his son Paul to otre Dame International School in Rome; 0 r. and Mrs. Mar eel N. Prince, on return from a holiday in Lebanon, Temperature at Badanah during eptember ranged from a minimum of 60 degrees Fahrenheit to a maximum of 112. Off 0 n vacation are Misses Mariana Kharsa and Fatme Abu-Zahr, Muhammad Mutig, AbdulRahman Abdullah, Ali Ibrahim, Agab F a I I a j , Saad Muhammad, Lafi and Ayyaf Naif, Muhammad Jarid and Khalil Jamaleddine. Sidon \\'elcome home to Captain and Mrs. Walther J. Ludvigsen and children who returned here September 2+ from lea\'e in ~orwav, Our hats are tipped for all ,idon employees who have participated in \\ ork pertaining to the extensioOl, seaward, of Berths 1 and 3. A special nod goes to Robert G. Thompson and George Hearn, who supervised shore operations, and to Captain A. D. Odegaarden and G. Loram, of Land and :\Tarine Contractors, who supervised sea operations. Accompanied by Annibal A. Faddoul, Foreman Operations and Maintenance, and Hassib Baassiri, Pipeline Repairman, Assistant Terminal Superintendent Robert G. Thompson inspected the pipeline section in Syria during eptember. l\Iore than twenty Tapliner ha\ e already joined the de\'e!opment chool for employees at Sidon, which was founded last Januarv, after the ummer rece s.' Under the tutorship of Kamal BouZeid and Abdo Zeinoun, the employees are attending ad\'anced one-hour English sessions on :\Tondays and \\'edne day and beginners' one-hour English sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. . idon employees convey their deepest sympathy to Mr. Zeinoun on the recent death of his brother, Dr. Anthony Fares Zeinoun, who passed away in the United States following short illness. Turaif Welcome "home" to the Carl Scharns, who have been away on a trip around the world. They report having had a wonderful time in the Far East, where they spent hours learning how to use chopsticks, The Jan H. Gysens are also glad to have returned to Turaif and its sundrenched mornings from a holiday in wet and cold Holland. While on vacation, our Coordinator of Stores and Community Services spent time in England, where he attended a ten-day management s e min a r at Burton Manor College in Cheshire. The Turaif welcoming wagon has also received recently Muhammad A I i Hassan, M u ham mad Abdullah, Salim Suleiman, Harold Krapp and the Henry C. Hansens, on return from vacations; and John R. Terry, E. R. Robertson and Anton J. Hanna, on return from hort trips to Beirut. Off to the United States to join their families there and spend their long vacation entitlements are John Koenreich and James V. Foody. Recent visitors in Turaif were Joseph G. S a 1m, Robert L. Ames and Adel Noujaim. Whil in Turaif, Adel kept himself bu y with the annual inventory of Turaif's Central Storehouse, Less and less swimmers are seen at the swimming pool these days. Temperature of the water in October went down to about 70 degrees Fahrenheit only, With both Halloween and the Yuletide eason "in the air," members of the Turaif Women's Group are making all the necessary preparations to make the festi\'ities a success. Congratulations to station mechanic Musfir Abdullah and plumber Abd u IRahman Sa'id, who completed ten years of company service on October I, Dr. Amjad Ghanma (second from right) recently became the first 1 S-year pin recipient in Tapline's j\,Jedical Department. Dr. Ghanma was presented his three-star sect'ice emblem October 22 by Dr. F. 1. ZlIkoski (right), in the presence of, from left, Salih Al-As'ad, Executive Vice President William R. Chandler and H. S. Smith. (Photo by Nasr). Qaisllmah's AmiI' Mllhammad KIll/waiter (in national dress) held a small "tea and fl'llits gathering" at the All/irate bllilding October 2 to welcome Dr. !l1ichel G. Khollry On arrif'al frail! Badanah On temporary relief assignment. Attetlding the gathering were, frail! left, Saad Salim, Raafat Farah, Qaisllmah's AmiI', Dr. Khoury, 101m Nehme and Suleiman Sallown, (Photo by SlIleiman Salloum). Beirut Tapline President John Noble is presently convalescing at his home in Connecticut after having undergone surgery at the Harkness Pavillion in ew York on September 24. Miss Huda Rayes, of Personnel, described her re- A nerv diesel engine, four-wheel drive Austin- fVestern hydraulic crane, with a 25 ft. boom and 23 ft. boom extension, has recently been acquired by Tapline from the Allstin-Western Construction Equipment Division in Aurora, illinois. Above, good use of the 33,752 crane is made to unload a truck at Turaif's Central Storehouse, Page 9 cent trip to Jordan and the Holy Land as "memorable." Miss Rayes returned here from vacation October 22 after visiting the Petra ruins in Jordan, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. J. P. O'Hagan and J. A. Sabini have resumed their duties in Industrial Relations and Government Relations, respectively, following long vacations. R. P. Cocke, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, NYO, returned to ~e\V York October 17. Richard R. Burnett, John J. Kelberer, Donald W. Dreier and AtefJubaili returned here October 24 from a three-day inspection trip to IPC facilities in Syria. The Beirut welcoming wagon happily received in October "ice President Operations W. E. Locher and family on return from long \'acation; Dr. F. J. Zukoski and family, on return from a long holiday in Italy and the East Coast of the United States; Manager of Public Relations Salih AI-As'ad, on return from a five-day business trip to pump stations along the 'Line; Manager of Operations Robert A. Prusinski, on return from Riyadh where he and Harry F. Hopper consulted with the Saudi Arab l\Iinistry of Agriculture regarding the gO\"ernment's water wells program in the orthern Area; and Executi\"e "ice President William R. Chandler, on return from Dhahran where he attended the Fall meeting of the Tapline Board of Directors. T. J. Goddard, R. A. Stupay and K. D. Romine, of Aramco audi Arabia, \'isited Beirut headquarters October 17 after making a tour of pump stations along the 'Line. Messrs. Goddard, Stupay and Romine visited Tapline's Sidon Terminal before returning to Dhahran on October 19, Beirut employees convey their deepest sympathy to Muhammad Hambali on the recent death of his mother. (Continued next page) PIPELI E PERISCOPE Page 10 PIPELI E PERISCOPE THE OIL INDUSTRY IN THE NEWS Rafha ongratulations to John H. Rosquist on hi, election as president of the Rafha , \\ imming Pool .-\ssociation to replace Richard Ragsdale, \\ ho ha resigned. Mrs. Rosquist, on the other hand, has been elected president of the Tilal elBedou Golf Group now that the golfing season is in full sway at Rafha. Dr. Maurice Baroody has been named vice president; Jim Druley, secretary - trea urer; Mr. Rosquist and Everett S. Tracey, co-chairmen of the Rules and Green Committee; and Mrs. J. F. Chaplin and John Brandenburg, co-chairmen of the Entertainment Committee. On ,eptember 20, the Tilal el-Bedou Golf Group organized a ,cotch foursome tournament to start off the golfing eason. The \yinning combination wa that of Charles S. Babb and his on Charles, Jr. The day following the tournament, the Group held a breakfa t party at the Community Center to distribute prizes to winning members of la t Spring's competitions. They are: James F. Chaplin, Charles Babb Jr., Robert W. Bowe, Elwood Gray, Andrianus Verhoeven, Mrs. E. S. Tracey and Mr. and Mrs. Rosquist. The award were presented by the outgoing president of the Golf Group, Mr. Tracey. The Rosquists and Traceys meanwhile held a surpri e birthday party at the \\'imming pool for John Brandenburg on eptember 15. Mr. and Mrs. Reda Abdul-Samad are with us again from holiday in Lebanon. Elwood Gray has also returned to the fold from a three-week vacation in Idaho, where he spent most of his time fishing. The Babbs hosted a dinner party during September in honor of John R. Terry, Senior Superintendent tations, Turaif; John J. Kelberer, Chief EngineerC. E. & I, Beirut; and J. Page 11 Informati01lal mailer reported in this column is compiled from and based on reports in tlte following magazines and periodicals.' Petroleum l1ltellige1lce WeeMy, the Oil alld Gas /ntel'llational alld World Petroleum. Xinety-eight students hat'e enrolled this Fall at the Qaisumah Amrrale School, agGinst 6 durillg the pas I scholastic year. The students (including 34 first graders, 18 secolld graders, 12 third graders, 15 fourth graders, 13 fifth graders and 6 sixth graders) are occupying classrooms alld premises reno"ated by TaplinI' durl11g summer. SO"'II abm.'e is a group of 5 and 6 graders ,<'ith their teachers ill the backgroulld. From left, School Principal Abdul· .-I:::i::: Shaghdalli and teachers J!ahmoud Ghanem, Khaled Abu· amaha, Haidar Xajjar, Saleh Turki alld .-lhmad .-1 tan. (Photo by Atnel Touma). Rafha hospital orderly Ali Saleh (second from left) entertailled his mallY fnmds September 20 at a "mansaf" dinner of stuffed lamb and rice in celebration of his recent mo,e to a nNc Saudi Home O,mers/llp Plall house. Among his guests "Be, from left, .Vabil Khoury, Dr . .)faurice Baroody, Robert W. Bmu alld Charles S. Babb. Saleh's house ,cas one of the first t,ea houses completed at Rafha in September under the home loan program. O"'lIer of the other S. H. O. P. house is Ahmad Zein. (Photo by Saad Dabaghy). D. Hoffman, Tapline's former Assistant Chief Engineer Communications, who recently spent two weeks with Tapline on a consultation assignment. Mrs. Robert W. Bowe is back to Rafha from a short trip to Beirut, where she enlisted Daniela Bowe at the Italian School for Girls. Before her departure to Beirut to resume her studies at the American Community School, Kathleen Tracey was the host of the John H. Rosquists at a small dinner party. Vacations have recently started for Georges Mourad, Faleh Hulayel, Saud Muhammad, Sultan Muhammad, Saad Daina and Rashid Saleh. They are over for Daifallah Hamad, Saleh Yahya, Rashid Saleh and Andrianus Verhoeven, who spent his leave amidst friends and relatives in Holland and Switzerland. A ten-year pin for safe driving was reccntly presented to Abdallah Furaih, of Maintenance. Five-year safe driving pins ha\'e meanwhile been awarded to Charles S. Babb, Hamdan Abdallah, Saud Abdul-Aziz, Saleh Yahya, Mushrif Hamed, Saad Majid and Mas'oud Mutailek. Dr. Michel Khoury is in Rafha on temporary assignment, relieving Dr. Maurice Baroody who is on local leave. Congratulations to Rafha's community store clerk and Mrs. Ahmad Hamad on the birth of their son, Abdul Nasser. Oil and M. E. Economy: The extent of the contribution of petroleum to the economics of the Middle East has been summarized quantitatively in a recent nited ations report. Among the highlights: • Proven oil resen'cs of the area as of January 1, 1962, wcre estimated at about 25.2 billion tons, or ome 61 percent of the total world reserves. • Direct payments by petrolcum companies to liddie East gO\'ernments in the period 1950 to 1960 ha\'e aggrcgated to ~8,9 billion. These payments ha\'e excceded 1 billion per year in thc last four years of the period. • Capital expenditures by companies in the area, for a somewhat shorter period (1951-1960), came to $3.04 billion, and de\'elopment costs for the same period were $1,925 million. • Transportation income to governments is now averaging about 1+0 million per year. • Other expenditures by the oil industry (wages, salaries, payments to local contractors and local purchases and thc like) are of the order of magnitude of .200 million annually. • The total \'isible contributions of petroleum to the economy of the Iiddle East are today running at Beirut's ,\1alerials Accounting Super";sor Adel Noujaim and Turaif's Lead .Haterials Specialist Duai]' Ali arri"ed in Qaisumah in lale September to 'cork on the amI/wi illt'entory of the station's stcrehouse. Sho,c71 abo"e in background, fro III left, are ,1lessrs. NOl/jailll alld Ali alld DUlllaithan KhlltcUller, Klleelillg ill foregroulld is Qaisumah's storekeeper Hmood Fahd. (Photo by .-1tllel Toullla). Lead hospital orderly Ali Muhammad (center) receives from Qaisulllah Station Superintendent Dudley P. Harbin the keys of his nef~ house built under the Saudi Home Ownership Plan. Others, from left, are contractor Abdullah Khodari and Senior Engineer.Construction Na:::ih el-Sheikh. (Photo by Suleiman Salloum). an annual a\'erage rate of more than 2 billion. Russia's Tanker Fleet: New estimates of SO\'iet tanker growth underline Russia's intent to keep oil exports expanding at a steady rate. Japan shipbuilders have just secured orders for twelve 35,000 tonners. And Yugoslavia holds orders for nine 20,000 tonners. The Bremen Institute for Shipping Research reckons the Soviet tanker fleet totaled 1,241,000 gross tons at August 1, or more than twice the figure five years ago. umber of tankers is 17+. According to the annual tanker study by Sun Oil Co.'s economics departmcnt, Russia has building or on order 1.3 million deadweight tons for delivery in thc next five years. This additional tonnage will double the existing oviet-flag fleet. Of the total, 570,000 D\\'T will be supplied by Italian and Japanese yards. Soviet Oil: Among its conclusions, a recent United States National Petroleum Council report stated that oil is Russia's most important wcapon in its politicoeconomic offensivc against the Free World. The report said that Soviet oil cxports have reduced the revenue of Free World producing countries by an estimated +86 million from 1954 through 1961. It is estimated that by 1965 Russia, which imported a net 30,000 BPD in 1950, will have a crude and products surplus of one millions barrels per day for export to the Free \\'orld. Suez Canal: Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mahmoud Younes announced deepening of the Canal to 38 ft. would begin sometime in 1963. Transiting tonnage in the last three months increased 9 per cent over the similar period last year, mostly in higher tonnage, not in number of ships. This, he said, is a signal to proceed with the $75 million project. Venezuela Sales: If you have been wondering where Venezuela ha been selling all the ten per cent added oil output it has been churning out this year, here are a few official export data. Among major areas, the biggest gains, averaging better than 23 pcr cent over year-earlier levels, have occured in sales to Europe. Europe as a whole took some 765,000 barrels daily of Venezuela oil in the first half of 1962. Venezuela's performance in the Common Market area (better than a one-third increase in sales) is particularly striking. This fa t-growing oil market boosted its purchases of Yenezuelan oil a whopping 34.3 per cent O\'er year-earlier levels in firsthalf of 1962, to a record 293,100 BPD. ome threefifths of this came in as crude oil, the rest mostly as fuel oil. Dutch Gas Exports: German gas authorities, as well as Britain's gas industry have now openly entered the bidding for natural gas from Holland's hugc Slochteren resen'es, now estimated at 350 billion cubic meters. Gcrman municipal-gas undertakings expect to be able to sell town gas made from Dutch methane 20 percent to 50 per cent cheaper than the gas they make from coal today. Computers Talk: In a new system recently installcd, Standard Oil Company of California, now has computers which "talk" to one another \'ia microwave relay, an electronic beam similar to that used in television network transmission. SOCAL is the first company to install such a high specd relay system between widely separated computers in nonmilitar work. The hook-up enables scientists and engincers in laboratories at Richmond, Calif., to get swift answers to complex research problems requiring use of the large-scale computer in San Francisco. The Richmond laboratories and San Francisco offices are 11 miles apart. Page 12 PIPELI E PERISCOPE SIDON LOADS SUPERTANKERS Two Es 0 supertankers loaded part cargoes at Sidon Terminal during the second week of October. They are the ESSO I1A IPSHIRE, which took a partial cargo of 4H,000 barrels on October 13, and the E SO LIBYA, which finished loading a partial cargo of 337,000 barrels two days later. The tankers can take 585,000 and 640,000 barrels, respectively. Both vessels were floated less than 6 months ago and \\'ere on their first trip to Sidon. The 90,000-deadweight-ton tanker ESSO LIBYA is believed to be the largest tanker ever built in Europe. The vessel's o"erall length is 855 ft. and her moulded breadth 125 ft. The 81,350-deadweight-ton ESSO I1A IPSI lIRE is 856 ft. long and 112 ft. \\ ide. The two ships ha,'e accommodations for their cre\\' of 60 each located amidships and aft. Full air-conditioning is prO\'ided in the t\\'o supertankers. Cargo handling is taken care of by three steam-dri,'en cargo oil pump. The cargo ,'ah'es are hydraulically operated. The fire-fighting equipment, incorporating a foam system for the cargo tank protection, is extensi'e in each of the two tankships. The tankers operate on international routes as part of the • tandard Oil Company of 1'i:e\\ Jersey ocean-going fleet \\ hich at the end of 1961 consisted of 115 yes els totalling 3,517,773 ton, Shown here\\ ith are vie\\'s taken by the Periscope cameraman of the E. SO HAl\IPSIIIRE loading at idon. T,ro 16-inch loadmg hoses ,cere connected to the HAJIPSHIRE's manifold. Through these hoses, aude oil Jrom the tank Jarm fio.ced into the ship's storage tanks beloi(' deck. The HA.HPSHIRE loaded 444,000 barrels oj crude oil at an Qt'erage loadmg rate oj about 30,000 barrels an hOIll. (PHOTO. BY A R) The 81,350 DlI'T supertanker ESSO HA.UPSHIRE Rhich took a partwl cargo oj 444,000 barrels Jrom Sidon Terminal, October 13, The huge .'essel can take aboard 585,000 barrels oj crude, It has a complemt!7lt oj 60 officers and men and .t'Qs fioated during the second quarter oj 1962. General den' oj the aJt. A cat,ralk running midship oj the 'Vessel connects the midship house .cith the poop deck (in background). Below the In:el oj the catrt'Qlk are cargo loading lines. The poop deck houses quarters and messes Jor the ship's junior officers and cne menthers. Here too is the engine room rcith its steam turbine motors. Tapline crew members oj the 1\.-1/S Horne secure lines oj the HAMPSHIRE to jive mooring buoys: treo on each side and one astern.
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