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Vol. 10 No. 10 TRANS—ARABIAN PIPE LINE COMPANY, BEIRUT, LEBANON November 1962

Tapline BoardApproves 1963Budget ItemsThe Fall meeting of Tap—

line‘s Board of Directors washeld in Dhahran October 10.Parent Company DirectorsG. L. Parkhurst of StandardOil Company of California,H. W. Page of Stan—dard Oil Company (NewJersey), Harvey Cash ofTexaco, Inc., and H. C.

Moses of Socony Mobil OilCompany, were present, to—gether with Directors T. C.Barger (President of Aram—co), and W. R. Chandler andR. P. Cocke —of ‘Tapline.President John Noble, cur—rently recuperating in NewYork from an operation, wasabsent.

Tapline‘s capital and ope—rating budgets for 1963 werepresented to the Board, andwere approved. In addition,the tentative budgets for1964 were presented for in—formation of the Board.

The principal items in the1963 capital budget were theSidon Terminal Improve—ment Program, amountingto $340,000, and a $250,000appropriation for replace—ment of mobile and workequipment.

Initially presented to andapproved by the Board lastMay, the 1963 Sidon Ter—minal Improvement Prog—ram is an extension of the1962 program and coversmodifications to loading ber—ths at Sidon to achievehigher loading rates to thevery large tankers which areexpected to load at Sidonin the coming years.

Pictured above at Turaif‘s airstrip are, from left, Henry C. Moses, Harvey Cash, Mrs. H. W. Page, John R.

Terry, Mrs. Moses, J. J. Johnston, Aramco U. S. A. offices General Manager; R. P. Cocke, Vice President,

L. Parkhurst, William R. Chandler, George F. Heide, Mr. Page and GeorgeSecretary and Treasurer, NYO; G.

O. Linabury.

The main item is a new36 inch line, nearly 7,000

feet long, to be installed inBerth 1 to supplement pre—sent 18 inch and 20 inchlines. Berth 1, which is

now capable of berthing100,000 deadweight ton tan—kers following the extensionof existing lines into deeperwater this Fall, will be ca—pable of loading rates ashigh as 75,000 barrels perhour after the new 36 inchloop is installed in 1963.

This loading rate will beequal to or in excess ofmaximum rates at modernloading terminals elsewherein the world, and will assistin keeping Tapline com—petitive by handling verylarge tankers quickly andefficiently.An additional item in the

1963 Sidon program willbe the replacement of thepresent 12 inch loading hosein Berth No. 4 with a 16inch hose, thereby raisingthe maximum loading rateof that berth from 24,000barrels per hour to 41,000BPH.The principal equipment

items to be purchased in1963, aside from usual nor—

mal replacement of sedansand other light vehicles, will

be the purchase of 22 newwelding machines to replaceold machines currently inuse at all locations. A 15 toncrane is also being purchasedfor replacement of a wornout unit and a new rockcrusher and loader will beadded to the road spread.The Board also reviewed

and —approved _Tapline‘splans for completion of thePressure Increase Programstarted in 1956. This prog—ram, based upon modern

theories developed by Tap—line of the causes of pipefailure under varying con—ditions of pressure and tem—perature, has permitted Tap—line to develop operatingpressures more than 20 per—cent higher than those com—mon in the pipeline indus—try generally.

Pressure test work alreadycompleted has made it pos—sible to increase Tapline‘spotential capacity by about45,000 barrels per day with—out adding to investment.

The _remaining _pressuretests, which it is hoped will

be conducted this winter

and early in the spring,

should add another 10,000

BPD to Tapline‘s potential

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Directors Stopto Tour Turaif

Four Tapline Directors

representing the owner com—

panies were in Beirut Oct—

ober 4 and 5 and departed

for Dhahran via Turaif onOctober 6. Accompanied byExecutive Vice PresidentWilliam R. Chandler, the

group stopped briefly at thelatter pump station for ashort inspection tour andlunch at the Community

Center.

The group consisted ofMr. Harvey Cash, of Texaco,

Mr. H. W. Page, of StandardOil Company of NewJersey,Mr. G. L. Parkhurst, of

Standard Oil Company ofCalifornia, and Mr. HenryC.. Moses, of Socony Mobil.

Messrs. Page and Moseswere accompanied by theirwives.

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T. Shaw, acting vocational training instructor at Arameco‘s Abgaiq

Industrial Training Shops watches as Tapliner Akla Hassan, of Turaif‘sCentral Machine Shop, works on a shaft threading project. Akla recentlycompleted a special three—month training assignment at Abgaig. (Aramcophoto by A. L. Yousif).

Machine Tool OperatorAkla Hassan has just re—sumed his duties at Turaif‘sCentral Machine Shop afterbecoming the second SaudiArab Tapliner to completea special three—month train—ing course at Aramco‘s In—dustrial Training Shops inAbqaiq.

Combination welder Mu—hammad Salim Qahtani, ofTuraif‘s Central WeldingShop, was the first SaudiArab employee to completesuch special training lastyear at Aramco‘s IndustrialTraining Shops in RasTanura.

Born in Skata, SaudiArabia, some 25 years ago,Akla joined Tapline atTuraif on Jannuary 7, 1956

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PERISCOPEResp. Director :

Editor

Artist Vartan Bezdikian

Reporters :

Badanah Badih Haddad

Beirut Rose Sawdah

Jordan

New York

Qaisumah John Nehme

Rafha S. S. Dabaghi

Sidon Dr. G. M. StephanRichard Khattar

H. Overhagen

M. Sultan

John Franjieh

R. M. Weeks

Turaif

as a houseboy janitor. Afterbeing reclassified as Machin—ist four months later, hewas promoted to MachineTool Attendant in Septem—ber 1956 and to MachineTool Operator in September1958,

Ever since he joinedTapline‘s ranks, Akla hasbeen an active student ofthe company DevelopmentSchool at Turaif. He hasalso

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biweeklycourses given at the machineshop for company employeesassigned to Central Meca—nical. In these sessions,employees learn to readblueprints and are taughtmathematics and arithmeticrelated to their work inthe shops.

Akla‘s training assignmentin Abgqaiq is part of thenew companytraining policyadopted early in 1961 forthe development of nationalsin Saudi Arabia. Under thispolicy, a committee, com—posed of the General, Seniorand Station Superintend—ents, The Company Repre—sentative — Pipe Line Area,and the Staff Coordinator —Employee Development,nominates approximately tenpercent of the Saudi Arabemployees, who have dem—onstrated a high degree ofinitiative in their job per—formance, for considerationfor accelerated training pro—grams above the scope of thenormal training efforts.

Abdullah Abdul—Rahman Faleh (foreground) and Saleh F. Buhairan,who recently became the first Saudi Arab Tapliners to be trained inBeirut on medical laboratory techniques. (Photo by Nasr).

TWO SAUDI MEDICAL TAPLINERS

TAKE LAB TRAINING IN BEIRUTAbdullah Abdul—Rahman

Faleh and Saleh F. Buhairan,of Tapline‘s Base Hospitalin Badanah, arrived in Beirutin mid—October on a sixto twelve months trainingprogram in medical laborato—ry techniques. They are thefirst Saudi Arab Taplinersto receive such training out—side of their country.

Abdallah, who has beenwith Tapline since May1956, and Saleh, whose serv—ice date is September 1958,will be trained at the Beirutclinic laboratory by SeniorX—Ray

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LaboratoryTechnician Sarkis Sarkissian.Their training program willcover all fields of medicallaboratory work, includingbacteriology, biochemistry,parasitology, hematologyand serology.Upon successful comple—

tion of their training, Ab—dallah and Saleh will betransferred as laboratory te—chnicians to one of the pump

station hospitals along the‘Line.

If the training programproves to be successful, otherSaudi Arab medical em—ployees will be trained inthe same field.

THE CRADLE ROWBeirut

Deirdre Anne, daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Thomas D.Durrance.

QaryatainTamathor, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. MuhammadTakrouri

RafhaSaud, son of Mr. and Mrs.Turaikhim Ateek

iSidonKhadijeh, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Toufic Sebrawi

TuraifMariam, daughter of Mr.

Mrs. Abdul—Aziz Abdul—lah

Mona, daughter of Mr. andMrs. Abdullah Muham—mad.

OPERATIONS REPORT

Average BPD received at SidonShips loadedAverage BPD loaded on shipsAverage size of ships loadedAverage BPD delivered to ships,Medreco and IPC

September Year 1962288,143 331,225

40 396269,587 314,102221,340 225,450

284,689 327,432

Pipeline throughput suffered a setback in Septemberwhen it finished at 288,142 bearrels a day, more than38,500 .barrels below the August daily average. Deliveriesfrom Sidon also took a sizable dip in September, averaging284,689 BPD, against 304,098 BPD in August.

Probable average deliveries from Sidon for Octoberare 399,000 BPD.

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SAUDI NATIONALS PLACE FIRST, SECOND IN SAFETY CONTESTTuraif‘s Floor and Bench

Mechanic Muhammad SalehRumaih won the first prize(a Swiss—made alarm clock)in a contest recently organ—ized by Safety Engineering.Subject of the safety con—test, which was open toall Tapline employees inpump stations along the‘Line and Sidon Terminal,

was a Periscope picturewhich depicted an unsafecondition of work in prog—ress at a pumphouse inSaudi Arabia.

Station Maintenance Su—pervisor Ali Hassan, also ofTuraif, won second prize inthe contest — a Swiss armyknife.

In all, a total of 13 em—

ployees participated in thesafety contest. Aside fromthe winner and runner—up,they are: Muhammad TakiAbdullah, Muhammad

Ahmad Turaifi, Attallah An—nel, Muhammad al—Kublan

and Georges Hanna, ofTuraif; Laf Naif, Abdul—

Razzak Ali and Dr. MarcelPrince, of Badanah; Saad

Abdullah Majid and SaadDabaghi, of Rafha; andSuleiman Salloum, of

Qaisumah.

In commenting on theproper use of scaffolds,

which was the subject of thesafety contest, Safety En—

gineering in Beirut said:

"Scaffolding is a majorsource of fatal injuries andpermanent disabilities. Eachtype of scaffold which isdesigned or prefabricated foreasy and quick erection onthe job site, has some in—herent safety features to safe—guard against hazards of thejob and to minimize thechances of accident.

‘"The scaffold which wasthe subject of the safety con—test is of the built—up, sec—tional frame type, made ofprefabricated tubular steeltransverse frame panels. Toerect the scaffold, the framesare placed one on top theother and are connectedlengthwise by horizontal tiebracers to make a rigidstructure."The safety of scaffolds

built from such frames large—ly depends on the method

of erection, on the caretaken to incorporate thesafety features inherent inthe scaffold design, and onthe sound judgement of theerectors regarding the safetyof the constituting parts.

‘"‘To benefit from all thesafety features that are builtinto a sectional scaffold ofthe safety contest type, thefollowing recommendationsshould be followed:

"1. Be sure that footingis firm and solid and makecertain that the scaffold isplumb and level at all times.

"2. Provide a safe accessto each platform or working

level of the scaffold. A fixedladder, in this case, wouldbe most suitable. The ladder

should be firmly secured tothe scaffold and the rails

of the ladder should extendat least 3%$ feet above theupper platform of the scaf—fold. A portable ladder could

be used only if the scaffoldis to be used for a very short

time."3. Provide guard rail—

ings around the outer edgesof all working platforms,regardless of height. Toeboards must be used too if

working conditions requiresuch protection.

"4. Make sure all wingnuts and locking devices aretight.

**5. Make sure that planksand prefabricated platformsare sound and sturdy.Provide necessary means andfittings to prevent theirmovement on the scaffold.

"6. Provide head protec—tion for the men on thetop platform and the menworking below to protectthem from falling objects ifsuch hazard exists.

"*7. Keep all scaffoldmembers in good condition,and never use defectivematerial."

Winners of the safety contest on the proper use of scaffolds, which was recently organized by Safety Engineering

for employees in Saudi Arabia and Sidon, received thei awards at Turaif from Safety Engineer Fawzi M.

Najm (right) on October 16. They are Turaif‘s Floor and Bench Mechanic Muhammad Saleh Rumath (center),

who won a Swiss—made alarm clock for first prize, and Station Maintenance Supervisor Ali Hassan, : ho receir ed

a Swiss army knife for ranking second in the contest. (Photo by Mustafa Ashayer).

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Badanah‘s fire crew successfully extinguished a dangerous fire at a service station in ‘Ar‘ar on the evening of

September 13. The fire was brought under control in about half an hour and completely extinguished within one

hour only. A large number of Badanah Tapliners helped control the dangerous blaze which started right near

a 7,000—gallon storage tank. Water and foam were first sprayed over the tank and then water was used to put

off the fire in the building shown above. (Photo courtesy of Gene Wood).

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A total of more than onehundred American Taplinestudents in October wipedan accumulation of summerdust from their books andheaded back to their schools.

For American Taplinersstationed along the ‘Line,in Sidon and in Beirut, thecoming of Autumn meantthe departure of sons anddaughters to classes afterthe summer pleasure of hav—ing them around.

Seeking education "abro—ad" from Beirut are: JohnNoble Jr., 25, a fourth yearstudent at Columbia Univer—sity‘s medical School, NewYork City, N. Y.; Chris—topher Noble, 23, junior,Parsons College, Fairfield,lTowa ; George

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Noble,21, junior, Boston Univer—sity, Boston, Massachusetts;Barbara Chandler,

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20,a junior at Seattle Univer—sity, Washington;

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DavidRobinson, 19, sophomore,Wofford College, Spartan—burg, South Carolina; DavisAmes, 13, eighth grade, A—mesbury School, Hindhead,England; Christian Camp—bell, 22, sophomore, Uni—versity of Zurich, Zurich,Switzerland ; Andrew Camp—bell, 14, grade 11, EcoleNouvelle, Paudex, Switzer—land; Jeanne Locher, 21,senior, University of Colo—rado, Boulder, Colo.; AnneLocher, 20, junior, SimmonsCollege, Boston, Mass. ; Dia—ne Burnett, 14, grade 9,Prof. Busar‘s Girls‘ School,Teufen, Switzerland; Geor—ge Salm, 10, grade 6,Alderwasley Hall, Matlock,England; James CorriganIII, 16, grade 12, and RuthEllen Corrigan, 14, grade 10,at Wantagh High School,Wantagh, New York; Eliza—beth New, 19, sophomore,Goudier College, Towson,Maryland; and Glen Ewing,18, freshman, Cornell Uni—versity, New York.

In the same category fromthe pump stations are: Ge—rald Hargrove, 19, sopho—more, Monterey State Col—lege, Monterey, California;Dane Wood, 14, grade9, Nescopeck High School,Nescopeck, Penna.; JamesFoody Jr., 14, third form,

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SUMMER ENDS AND SCHOOLS BEGIN FOR TAPLINE STUDENTS

Back to classes at the American Community School in Beirut after the

long summer holiday are, from left, Janice and Deborah Quick, Mary

Ann New and Susan Dreier. (Photo by Nasr).

Delbarton School, Morris—town, New Jersey; MargaretFoody, 12, grade 7, RosarianAcademy, West Palm Beach,Florida ; Rae Foody, 9,grade 4, Gulliver School,Coconut Grove, Florida:;Christine Heide, 16, gra—de 12, Marymount Interna—tional School, Rome, Italy;Georgette Druley, 20, juni—or, University of Arizona,Tucson, Arizona; LyndaWright, 18, grade 12, RobertE. Lee High School, Tyler,Texas; Stephan Putnam, 14,grade 8, Greenbrier MilitarySchool, Lewisburg, WestVirginia; Paul Booth, 14,grade 10, Notre Dame In—ternational School, Rome,Italy; and Gordon Ragsdale,19, who is with the MarineCorps in San Diego, Cali—fornia.

ACS AND OTHERSAmong Tapline students

enrolled at the AmericanCommunity School in Beirutare Gail

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Chandler, 16,high school senior; Ka—thleen Tracey, 13, grade 9;Pamela Putnam, 17, highschool senior; Mary AnnNew, 11, grade 7; Genevieve

New, 9, grade 4; CraigEwing, 13, grade 8; WilliamBurnett, 11, grade 6; BarbaraBurnett, 7, grade 3; MaryLouis Kelberer, 9, grade 4;Margarett Ann Kelberer, 7,second grade; Barbara JeanKelberer, 5, kindergarten;Pamela Fullerton, 7, grade3; Douglas Fullerton, 6, firstgrade; Susan Dreier, 13, gra—de 8; Ann Dreier, 9, grade5; Henry Dreier, 5, firstgrade; John Prusinski, 11,grade 6; Anna Prusinski, 9,grade 4; Sean O‘Hagan, 13,grade 9; David Swanson,6, first grade; DeborahQuick, 12, grade 7; JaniceElizabeth Quick, 11, grade6; Stephen Reed, 12, grade7; Norman Reed, 11, grade6; Richard Sweetman, 12,grade 7; Sandra Sweetman,10, grade 5; Gail Hill, 11,grade 6; Lynn Hill, 8, grade3; and Richard Arnold, 13,grade 8.

Attending classes in Beirutat the Salesian Boys Schoolare Robert Zukoski, 11,grade 6; Richard Quick, 6,second grade; John Locher,9, grade 3; John MichaelKelberer, 11, grade 6; and

The fourth and last swimming pool along the Tapline system was of—ficially opened at Rafha September 21, when the Swimming Pool As—sociation there invited its members to a barbecue dinner of hot dogs andhamburgers.

Kevin O‘Hagan, 11, grade 6.

Bruce Thompson, 7, grade2, and Robbins Thompson, 4,kindergarten, are at Sidon‘sGerard Institute. Sixth gra—der Daniela Bowe, 13, isenrolled at the Italian Schoolfor Girls in Beirut.

Edith Noble, 7, grade 3,Jemima Sabini, 8, grade 4,Nina Dodge, 8, grade 4,and Melissa Dodge, 5, firstgrade, are students at theCollege Protestant de JeunesFilles. Bayard Dodge, 7, isa second grader at the BritishCommunity School.

‘LINE SCHOOLS

While thirth—five childrenwere in attendance at SeniorStaff Schools in Saudi Ara—bia during the past academicyear, the present school cen—sus shows that thirty—onechildren answered the callto classes this Fall.

Sixteen children are at—tending classes at Turaifwith Mesdames R. E. Sab—bagha, K. H. Aoun and R.H. Putnam as their teachers.They are first graders MeiYing Overhagen, Peter Put—nam and Everett Robert—son Jr.; second graders Vic—tor Gysen, Glen Terry, andDeborah Olsen; third gra—ders Lyn Putnam, ChrisScharn and John A. WoodJr.; fourth graders JamesTerry, Allen Hansen, LindaScharn and Suzanne Wood;fifth grader Mirion JaniceRobertson ; sixth grader Dia—ne Alice Wood; and Doro—thy Gysen, grade 8.

Nine sons and daughtersof Badanah Tapliners areunder the tutorship of Mrs.H. Hargrove and Mrs. J. N.Samaha. They are secondgraders Aziz Iliya, DudleyBooth, Sereen Thaddeus andCynthia Samaha; third gra—der Caroline Crosthwait;fifth graders Terry and KellyArnold; sixth grader Ste—phen Booth; and seventhgrader Patricia Lee.

Six youngsters at Rafhahave Mrs. R. Ragsdale astheir schoolmarm. They arePatricia Jensen and Pat andMike Babb, grade 3; StanleyTracey, grade 4; CharlesBabb, grade 5; and AlthaJensen, grade 6.

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Members of the Beirut winning team and event winners received in—dividual trophies donated on behalf of Tapline by Executive Vice PresidentWilliam R. Chandler. Shown above from left are Mr. Chandler, JohnP. O‘Hagan, Mike Ajhar, William A. Robinson, Mrs. David S. Dodge,Shawki Fretha, Mrs. Robinson, Donald W . Dreier, Dr. Marcel N. Prince,

Mr. Dodge and Harry F. Hopper.

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Members of the Saudi Arabian team were, standing from left, MichelMoussa, Mrs. Jacob Thaddeus, George Ziady, Mrs. Marcel Princeand John N. Samaha; and kneeling, George F. Heide, Dr. Prince andHarry F. Hopper. Not available for the photograph were Hanna Faddoul,Joe Sayegh and Mike Khairallah.

Donald Dreier in action at the four—day tennis tourney. Dreier lost thesingles finals, men‘s doubles finals but won a tight mixed doubles finalswith Mrs. William A. Robinson against the David S. Dodges.

BEIRUT TENNIS TEAM DOWNSARABIA TO WIN NOBLE CUP

Tapline‘s Beirut racqueteers overwhelmed their Arabiancounterpartes, 17 match points to 8, and clinched theNoble Cup in a four—day tennis tournament that endedOctober 14 at the Tapline Sporting Club courts.

Donated by Mrs. Noble, wife of Tapline PresidentJohn Noble, The Noble Cup was presented to Shawki

Freiha, captain of the Beirut winning team, by ExecutiveVice President William R. Chandler October 14 at the club.

Members of the winning team and event winners alsoreceived individual trophies donated by Tapline. Eventwinners were Dr. Marcel N. Prince, of Badanah, whowhipped Donald W. Dreier, of Beirut, 6—3, 6—1, to winthe singles finals; Harry F. Hopper, also of Badanah, whoteamed with Dr. Prince to edge the Dreier—David S. Dodgecombination 6—2, 4—6, 6—4, in the men‘s doubles; and theMrs. William A. Robinson—Dreier tandem, who downed

the team of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, 5—7, 6—4, 6—3, to takethe mixed doubles.

Tapliners on the ‘Line team were: Dr. and Mrs.Prince, Mr. Hopper, John N. Samaha, George Ziady, JoeSayegh, Hanna Faddoul, Michel Moussa, George F. Heide,Mrs. Jacob D. Thaddeus and Mike Khairallah.

Dreier, Freiha, the Dodges, Mike Ajhar, H. D.Lambert, Sami Kurban, the Robinsons, John P. O‘Haganand Joseph Salm were on the Tapline—Beirut squad.

(PHOTOS BY NASR)

Sharwki Fretha (right), captain of the Beirut winning tennis team, receives

the Noble Cup from Executive Vice President William R. Chandler.

Tapline Management hosted a buffet dinner at the Tapline Sporting

Club, October 11, in honor of the ‘Line and Beirut tennis teams. Shown

above tasting the buffet delicacies are, from left, William A. Robinson,

Mrs. Willard Ewing, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Heide and Harry F.

Hopper.

Seconds before the pipe section was completely floated on sea. In water, the extension was pulled by two

terminal launches.

Pipe Launching Operation:MEN AND MACHINES AT WORK

The story of launching a submarine crude line pipe—extension weighing some131,500 pounds into the sea is a colorful and bustling picture of men and machinesat work.

The Periscope camera lens covered such a story at Sidon Terminal September28—29, when a 1,103 ft. pipe string of 30—inch diameter was launched to the seato extend the Berth No. 3 crude line in deeper water to accommodate larger su—pertankers.

Late in October, the main string was lifted off the sea bottom, towed into

position and flanged to the end of the existing Berth No. 3 crude line.All work pertaining to the extension of the two Berth No. 3 lines is scheduled

for completion by mid—November, weather permitting.

Following its extension, Berth No. 3 now measures 6,780 ft.The last section of 20—inch pipe extending Sidon‘s Berth No. 1, on the other

hand, was installed on September 10. The two crude lines of Berth No. 1 were

extended 2,200 ft. seaward and the berth was back in operation on October 9.Following its extension, Berth No.

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now measures 6,700 ft.

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The extension string of Berth No. 3 crude line was pulled out by a bulldozer (left) with the help of three

I)—7 sideboom tractors. A D—7 dozer was also used as a hold back.

Front—end sled of the pipe extension which was flanged on both ends.

More than one thousand and one hundred feet of pibe completely floated. Before it was sunk, the main

string was anchored andfastened to winch lines from supporting pontoons (right) and to auxiliary buoyant

chambers (left, background).

Roller—guides also helped support the crude line pipe extension on shore. The extension weighed some

131,500 pounds.

The main string was sunk by flooding with water. Lines from winches (left) andauxiliary buoyant chambers,

such as the one on the right, were fastened to the main string, which was then lifted off the sea bottom,

towed into position and flanged to the existing end of Berth 3 crude line

Watching closely the pipe launching operation are, from left, Manager of Operations Robert A. Prusinskt,

Sidon Terminal Superintendent Abner A. Brickhouse, Comptroller Oscar T. Swanson, Semor Engineer

Construction F. W. New and Chief Engineer Pipeline R. R. Burnett

Robert G. Thompson, Assistant Superintendent

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A flag signal beacon was also ready for auxiliary

— Sidon, uses the radio to coordinate work

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signals in case of radio failure during the launching

between shore and sea operations during launching

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operation of the pipe extension to Berth No. 3

of the pipe extension. crude line.

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Superintendentand Mrs. Dudley P. Harbinplayed hosts in early Octoberat a turkey—dinner given towelcome Dr. Michel Khou—ry, of the Badanah BaseHospital staff, upon arrivalin Qaisumah to relieve Dr.

Hanna Wanna, who is onvacation. Joe Sayegh andJohn Nehme attended thefunction. Incidentally, wordis around that Dr. Wannawill return to the fold en—gaged. Congratulations andgood luck in advance.

Saad Salim Harbi, ofBadanah Government Rela—tions, arrived here in lateSeptember to relieve ourLocal Company Represen—tative, Muhammad AbdulRahman, who left for Jor—dan with his family on va—cation.

Fahad and Fhaid Sulei—man have resumed theirduties here following localleave.

Tahnoon Muhammadhas also reported back towork in Motor Transportfollowing a long holidayspent in Hayel, Dammam,al—Khobar and Riyadh.

Good luck to Qaisumah‘sOffice Supervisor OthayebMutlaqg who left here inmid—September on leave.Othayeb drove his newly—acquired Mercedes sedan toLebanon, Syria and Turkey.There is a good chance forOthayeb to return here witha bride.

Vacationers are RashidFahd, Muhammad Junaif,Juraidi Khalifa, Muham—mad Ghazi, Hamad Ha—thal, Fahd Suleiman, AliHashim, MuhammadMansour, Mouhine Elias,Tahnoon Muhammad andH. H. Hoeksma. Holidaysare meanwhile over for Ab—dallah Khalaf, Muham—mad Nasser, JuhayemDumairi and Hmood Ala—yan.

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Fakhd Mutlag (standing, second from left), Qaisumah‘s station maintenance supervisor, invited all company

employees at Qaisumah in addition to Amir Muhammad Khuwaiter, governorate officials and about 200 towns—

people to a dinner party early in October to celebrate his move to a new Saudi Home Ownership Plan house.

Aside from cabbages and egg—plants, fifteen stuffed lambs, twenty trays of rice and twenty—five fried chicken

were consumed at the dinner party. Shown above at the honor table, from left, are Muni® Nasser, Raafat Farah,

John Nehme, Station Superintendent Dudley P. Harbin, Amir Khuwaiter, Dr. Michel G. Khoury and Nick

Goutreloos. Standing from left are Jazza®‘ Mubarak, the host Fahd Mutlag, Hmood Fahd and Bashir Onaizan.

(Photo by Suleiman Salloum).

BadanahThe annual inventory of

Storehouse —materials |wascompleted here during thelast week of September byAdel Noujaim, of Beirut,Duaij Ali and Hathal Said.Warm welcomes were ex—

tended to Dr. and Mrs.Chukri M. Soulban, onreturn to Badanah fromholiday; Dr. Antoine M.Saber, on arrival fromRafha; Hathal and Mu—hammad Said, on returnhere from a long holidayin Lebanon; Miss HiyamK aibni, on return frommedical leave in Beirut;

Mrs. John Arnold, onreturn from Beirut whereshe placed her son Richardat the American CommunitySchool ; Clarence P. Booth,on return to the fold frommedical leave in Beirut,where he also processed hisson Paul to Notre DameInternational —School _inRome; Dr. and Mrs.Marcel N. Prince, onreturn from a holiday inLebanon.Temperature at Badanah

during September rangedfrom a minimum of 60

degrees Fahrenheit to a max—imum of 112.Off on vacation a‘re

Misses Mariana Kharsaand Fatme Abu—Zahr, Mu—hammad Mutig, Abdul—Rahman Abdullah, AliIbrahim, Agab F allaj,Saad Muhammad, Lafiand Ayyaf Naif, Muham—mad Jarid and KhalilJamaleddine.

SidonWelcome home to Cap—

tain and Mrs. Walther J.Ludvigsen and childrenwho returned here Septem—ber 24 from leave in Norway.Our hats are tipped for

all Sidon employees whohave participated in workpertaining to the extension,seaward, of Berths 1 and 3.

A special nod goes to RobertG. Thompson and GeorgeHearn, who supervised sho—re operations, and to Cap—tain A. D. Odegaardenand G. Loram, of Land andMarine Contractors, who su—pervised sea operations.Accompanied by Annibal

A. Faddoul, Foreman —Operations and Maintenan—ce, and Hassib Baassiri,

Pipeline Repairman, Assis—tant Terminal Superinten—dent Robert G. Thompsoninspected the pipeline sec—tion in Syria during Sep—tember.More than twenty Tapli—

ners have already joined thedevelopment school for em—ployees at Sidon, which wasfounded last January, afterthe summer recess. Underthe tutorship of Kamal Bou—Zeid and Abdo Zeinoun,the employees are attendingadvanced one—hour Englishsessions on Mondays andWednesdays and beginners‘one—hour English sessionson Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Sidon employees conveytheir deepest sympathy toMr. Zeinoun on the recentdeath of his brother, Dr.Anthony Fares Zeinoun,who passed away in theUnited

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States followingshort illness.

TuraifWelcome "home" to the

Carl Scharns, who havebeen away on a trip aroundthe world. They report hav—ing had a wonderful timein the Far East, where they

spent hours learning howto use chopsticks.The Jan H. Gysens are

also glad to have returnedto Turaif and its sun—drenched mornings from aholiday in wet and coldHolland. While on vacation,our Coordinator of Storesand Community Servicesspent time in England,where he attended a ten—daymanagement s e m in ar atBurton Manor College inCheshire.T he Turaif welcoming

wagon has also received re—cently Muhammad AliHassan, M uh a m m a dAbdullah, SalimSuleiman, Harold Krappand the Henry C. Hansens,on return from vacations;and John R. Terry, E. R.Robertson and Anton J.Hanna, on return fromshort trips to Beirut.

Off to the United Statesto join their families thereand spend their long vaca—tion entitlements are JohnKoenreich and James V.Foody.

Recent visitors in Turaifwere Joseph G. S alm,Robert L. Ames and AdelNoujaim. While in Turaif,Adel kept himself busy withthe annual inventory ofTuraif‘s Central Storehouse.

Less and less swimmersare seen at the swimmingpool these days. Tempera—ture of the water in Octoberwent down to about 70degrees Fahrenheit only.With both Halloween and

the Yuletide season "in theair," members of the TuraifWomen‘s Group are makingall the necessary prepara—tions to make the festivitiesa success.

Congratulations to stationmechanic Musfir Abdullahand plumber _Abdul—Rahman Sa‘id, who com—pleted ten years of companyservice on October 1.

BeirutTapline President John

Noble is presently conva—lescing at his home in Con—necticut after having under—gone surgery at the HarknessPavillion in New York onSeptember 24.Miss Huda Rayes, of

Personnel, described her re—

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Dr. Amjad Ghanma (second from right) recently became the first 15—yearpin recipient in Tapline‘s Medical Department. Dr. Ghanma was presentedhis three—star service emblem October 22 by Dr. F. J. Zukoski (right),

in the presence of, from left, Salih Al—As‘ad, Executive Vice President

William R. Chandler and H. S. Smith. (Photo by Nasr).

Qaisumah‘s Amir Muhammad Khuwaitee (in national dress) held a

small "tea and fruits gathering‘ at the Amirate building October 2 to

welcome Dr. Michel G. Khoury on arrival from Badanah on temporary

relief assignment. Attending the gathering were, from left, Saad Salim,

Raafat Farah, Qaisumah‘s Amir, Dr. Khoury, John Nehme and Suleiman

Salloum. (Photo by Suleiman Salloum).

A new diesel engine, four—wheel drive Austin—Western hydraulic crane,

with a 25 ft. boom and 23 ft. boom extension, has recently been acquired

by Tapline from the Austin—Westeren 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.

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cent trip to Jordan and theHoly Land as "memorable."Miss Rayes returned herefrom vacation October 22after visiting the Petra ruinsin Jordan, Jerusalem and

the Dead Sea.

J. P. O‘Hagan and J. A.Sabini have resumed theirduties in Industrial Relationsand Government Relations,respectively, following longvacations.

R. P. Cocke, Vice Pre—sident, Secretary and Treas—

urer, NYO, returned to NewYork October 17.

Richard R. Burnett,John J. Kelberer, DonaldW. Dreier and AtefJubailireturned here October 24from a three—day inspectiontrip to IPC facilities inSyria.

The Beirut welcomingwagon happily received inOctober Vice PresidentOperations W. E. Locherand family on return fromlong vacation; Dr. F. J.Zukoski and family, on re—turn from a long holiday inItaly and the East Coastof the United States; Man—ager of Public RelationsSalih Al—As‘ad, on returnfrom a five—day business tripto pump stations along the‘Line; Manager of Opera—

tions Robert A. Prusinski,on return from _Riyadhwhere he and Harry F.Hopper consulted with theSaudi Arab Ministry of Ag—riculture regarding the gov—ernment‘s water wells pro—gram in the Northern Area;and Executive Vice Presi—dent William R. Chandler,on return from Dhahranwhere he attended the Fallmeeting of the TaplineBoard of Directors.

T. J. Goddard, R. A.Stupay and K. D. Romine,of Aramco Saudi Arabia,visited Beirut headquartersOctober 17 after making atour of pump stations alongthe ‘Line. Messrs. God—dard, Stupay and Rominevisited Tapline‘s Sidon Ter—minal before returning toDhahran on October 19.

Beirut employees conveytheir deepest sympathy toMuhammad Hambali onthe recent death of his mo—ther.

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Rafha

Congratulations to JohnH. Rosquist on his electionas president of the RafhaSwimming Pool Associationto replace Richard Ragsda—le, who has resigned.

Mrs. Rosquist, on theother hand, has been elected

president of the Tilal el—Bedou Golf Group nowthatthe golfing season is in fullsway at Rafha. Dr. MauriceBaroody has been namedvice president; Jim Druley,secretary — treasurer; Mr.Rosquist and Everett S.Tracey, co—chairmen of theRules and Greens Com—mittee; and Mrs. J. F. Cha—plin and John Branden—burg, co—chairmen of theEntertainment Committee.On September 20, the

Tilal el—Bedou Golf Grouporganized a Scotch four—some tournament to start

off the golfing season. Thewinning combination wasthat of Charles S. Babband his son Charles, Jr.The day following the

tournament, the Group held

a breakfast party at theCommunity Center to dis—tribute prizes to winningmembers of last Spring‘scompetitions. They are: Ja—mes F. Chaplin, CharlesBabb Jr., Robert W. Bowe,Elwood Gray, AndrianusVerhoeven, Mrs. E. S. Tra—

cey and Mr. and Mrs. Ros—quist. The awards were pre—sented by the outgoing pre—sident of the Golf Group,

Mr. Tracey.The Rosquists and Tra—

ceys meanwhile held a sur—prise birthday party at theswimming pool for JohnBrandenburg on Septem—ber 15.Mr. and Mrs. Reda Ab—

dul—Samad are with us a—gain from holiday in Leba—non.Elwood Gray has also re—

turned to the fold from athree—week vacation in Ida—ho, where he spent most ofhis time fishing.The Babbs hosted a din—

ner party during Septemberin honor of John R. Terry,Senior Superintendent —Stations, Turaif; John J.Kelberer, Chicef Engmeer—C,. E. & I, Beirut; and ]J.

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Ninety—eight students have enrolled this Fall at the Qaisumah Amirate School, against 68 during the past scholastic

vyear. The students (including 34 first graders, 18 second graders, 12 third graders, 15 fourth graders, 13 fifth

graders and 6 sixth graders) are occupying classrooms and premises renovated by Tapline during summer. Sown

above is a group of 5 and 6 graders with their teachers in the background. From left, School Principal Abdul—

Aziz Shaghdalli and teachers Mahmoud Ghanem,

Ahmad Atari. (Photo by Atnel Touma).

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Khaled Abu—Samaha, Haidar Najjar, Saleh Turki and

Rafha hospital orderly Ali Saleh (second from left) entertained his many friends September 20 at a "mansaf"

dinner of stuffed lamb and rice in celebration of his recent move to a new Saudi Home Ownership Plan house.

Among his guests were, from left, Nabil Khoury, Dr. Maurice Baroody, Robert W. Bowe and Charles S. Babb.

Saleh‘s house was one of the first two houses completed at Rafhka in September under the home loan program.

Owner of the other S. H. O.P. house is Ahmad Zein. (Photo by Saad Dabaghy).

D. Hoffman, Tapline‘s for—mer Assistant Chief Engi—neer —_— Communications,who recently spent two we—eks with Tapline on a con—sultation assignment.Mrs. Robert W. Bowe

is back to Rafha from a shorttrip to Beirut, where sheenlisted Daniela Bowe atthe Italian School for Girls.Before her departure to Bei—rut to resume her studiesat the American Communi—ty School, Kathleen Tra—cey was the host of theJohn H. Rosquists at a

small dinner party.Vacations have recently

started for Georges Mou—rad, Faleh Hulayel, SaudMuhammad, Sultan Mu—hammad, Saad Daina andRashid Saleh. They areover for Daifallah Hamad,Saleh Yahya, Rashid Sa—leh and Andrianus Ver—hoeven, who spent his leaveamidst friends and relativesin Holland and Switzerland.A ten—year pin for safe

driving was recently presen—ted to Abdallah Furaih, ofMaintenance. Five—year safe

driving pins have meanwhilebeen awarded to Charles8. Babb, Hamdan Abdal—lah, Saud Abdul—Aziz, Sa—leh Yahya, Mushrif Ha—med, Saad Majid andMas‘oud Mutailek.

Dr. Michel Khoury is inRafha on temporary assign—ment, relieving Dr. Mau—rice Baroody who is onlocal leave.

Congratulations to Rafha‘scommunity store clerk andMrs. Ahmad Hamad onthe birth of their son, AbdulNasser.

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THE OILInformational matter repor—

ted in this column is com—piled from and based on re—ports in the following ma—gazines and periodicals: Pe—troleum Intelligence Weekly,the Oil and Gas Internatio—nal and World Petroleum.

Oil and M. E. Economy:The extent of the contribu—tion of petroleum to theeconomics of the MiddleEast has been summarizedquantitatively in a recentUnited Nations report. A—mong the highlights:

& Proven oil reserves ofthe area as of January 1,1962, were estimated at a—bout 25.2 billion tons, orsome 61 percent of the totalworld reserves.

& Direct payments by pe—troleum companies to Mid—dle East governments in theperiod 1950 to 1960 have

INDUSTRYaggregated to $8.9 billion.These payments have ex—ceeded $1 billion per yearin the last four years of theperiod.

& Capital expenditures bycompanies in the area, fora somewhat shorter period(1951—1960), came to $3.04billion, and developmentcosts for the same periodwere $1,925 million.

& Transportation incometo governments is now ave—raging about $140 millionper year.e Other expenditures by

the oil industry (wages, sala—ries, payments to local con—tractors and local purchasesand the like) are of the orderof magnitude of $200 millionannually.

e The total visible con—tributions of petroleum tothe economy of the MiddleEast are today running at

Beirut‘s Materials Accounting Supervisor Adel Noujaim and Turaif‘sLead Materials Specialist Duaij; Ali arrived in Qaisumah in late Sep—

tember to work on the annual inventory of the station‘s stcrehouse. Shownabove in background, from left, are Messrs. Noujaim and Ali and

Dumaithan Khuwaiter. Kneeling in foreground is Qaisumah‘s storekeeper

Hmood Fahd. (Photo by Atnel Touma).

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Lead hospital orderly Ali Muhammad (center) receives from Qaisumah

Station Superintendent Dudley P. Harbin the keys of his new housebuilt under the Saudi Home Ownership Plan. Others, from left, are

contractor Abdullah Khodari and Senior Engineer—Construction Nazih

el—Sheikh. (Photo by Suleiman Salloum).

more than $2 billion.

Russia‘s Tanker Fleet:Newestimates of Soviet tan—ker growth underline Rus—sia‘s intent to keep oil ex—ports expanding at a steadyrate. Japan shipbuilders havejust secured orders for twel—ve 35,000 tonners. And Yu—goslavia holds orders fornine 20,000 tonners. TheBremen Institute for Ship—ping Research reckons theSoviet tanker fleet totaled1,241,000 gross tons at Au—gust 1, or more than twicethe figure five years ago.Number of tankers is 174.

According to the annualtanker study by Sun OilCo.‘s economics department,Russia has building or onorder 1.3 million deadwei—ght tons for delivery in thenext five years. This addi—tional tonnage will doublethe existing Soviet—flag fleet.Of the total, 570,000 DWTwill be supplied by Italianand Japanese \ards

Soviet Oil: Among itsconclusions, a recent UnitedStates National PetroleumCouncil report stated thatoil is Russia‘s most impor—tant weapon in its politico—economic offensive againstthe Free World. The reportsaid that Soviet oil exportshave reduced the revenueof Free World producingcountries by an estimated$486 million from 1954through 1961. It is estima—ted that by 1965 Russia,which imported a net 30,000BPD in 1950, will have a

crude and products surplusof one millions barrels perday for export to the FreeWorld.

Suez Canal: Suez CanalAuthority Chairman Mah—moud Younes announceddeepening of the Canal to38 ft. would begin sometimein 1963. Transiting tonnagein the last three months in—creased 9 per cent over thesimilar period last year, mos—tly in higher tonnage, notin number of ships. This,he said, is a signal to proceedwith the $75 million project.

Venezuela Sales: If youhave been wondering where

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IN THE NEWSan annual average rate of Venezuela has been selling

all the ten per cent addedoil output it has been churn—ing out this year, here area few official export data.

Among major areas, thebiggest gains, averaging bet—ter than 23 per cent overyear—earlier levels, have oc—cured in sales to Europe.Europe as a whole took some765,000 barrels daily of Ve—nezuela oil in the first halfof 1962.

Venezuela‘s performancein the Common Market area(better than a one—third in—crease in sales) is particularlystriking. This fast—growingoil market boosted its pur—chases of Venezuelan oil awhopping 34.3 per cent overyear—earlier levels in first—half of 1962, to a record

293,100 BPD. Some three—fifths of this came in ascrude oil, the rest mostlyas fuel oil.

Dutch Gas Exports:German gas authorities, aswell as Britain‘s gas industryhave now openly enteredthe bidding for natural gas

from Holland‘s huge Sloch—teren reserves, now estima—ted at 350 billion cubic me—ters. German municipal—gasundertakings expect to beable to sell town gas madefrom Dutch methane 20 per—cent to 50 per cent cheaperthan the gas they make fromcoal today.

Computers Talk: In anew system recently instal—led, Standard Oil Companyof California, now has com—puters which "talk" to oneanother via microwave relay,an electronic beam similarto that used in televisionnetwork transmission. SO—CAL is the first companyto install such a high speedrelay system between widelyseparated computers in non—militar work. The hook—upenables scientists and en—gineers in laboratories atRichmond, Calif., to getswift answers to complexresearch problems requiringuse of the large—scale com—puter in San Francisco. TheRichmond laboratories andSan Francisco offices are11 miles apart.

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Tiwo 16—inch loading hoses were connected to the HAMPSHIRE‘s

manifold. Through these hoses, crude oil from the tank farm flowed into

the ship‘s storage tanks below deck. The HAMPSHIRE loaded 444,000

barrels of crude oil at an average loading rate of about 30,000 barrels

an hour.

General view of the aft. A catwalk running midship of the vessel con—

nects the midship house with the poop deck (in background). Below the

level of the catiwalk are cargo loading lines. The poop deck houses quarters

and messes for the ship‘s junior officers and cew members. Here too is

the engine room with its steam turbine motors,.

SIDON LOADS SUPERTANKERSTwo Esso supertankers loaded part cargoes at Sidon

Terminal during the second week of October. They arethe ESSO HAMPSHIRE, which took a partial cargo of444,000 barrels on October 13, and the ESSO LIBYA,

which finished loading a partial cargo of 337,000 barrels twodays later. The tankers can take 585,000 and 640,000 barrels,

respectively.

Both vessels were floated less than 6 months ago andwere on their first trip to Sidon.

The 90,000—deadweight—ton tanker ESSO LIBYA isbelieved to be the largest tanker ever built in Europe.

The vessel‘s overall length is 855 ft. and her mouldedbreadth 125 ft.

The 81,350—deadweight—ton ESSO HAMPSHIRE is856 ft. long and 112 ft. wide.

The two ships have accommodations for their crewof 60 each located amidships and aft. Full air—conditioningis provided in the two supertankers.

Cargo handling is taken care of by three steam—drivencargo oil pumps. The cargo valves are hydraulically operated.

The fire—fighting equipment, incorporating a foamsystem for the cargo tank protection, is extensive in eachof the two tankships.

The tankers operate on international routes as part ofthe Standard Oil Company of New Jersey ocean—goingfleet which at the end of 1961 consisted of 115 vesselstotalling 3,517,773 tons.

Shown herewith are views taken by the Periscopecameraman of the ESSO HAMPSHIRE loading at Sidon.

(PHOTOS BY NASR)

The 81,350 DWT supertanker ESSO HAMPSHIRE which took a

partial cargo of 444,000 barrels from Sidon Terminal, October 13.

The huge vessel can take aboard 585,000 barrels of crude. It has a com—plement of 60 officers and men and was floated during the second quarter

of 1962.

Tapline crew members of the M/S Horne secure lines of the HAMPSHIRE

to five mooring buoys: two on each side and one astern.

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