TWO COMPANIES ADD DOUBLE HULL TANKERS

Units of Chevron Corp. and Conoco Inc. are expanding their fleets of crude oil tankers with double hull vessels. Chevron's Chevron Atlantic will carry about 1 million bbl of crude oil on voyages from the West Coast of Africa to the company's 172,800 b/cd Philadelphia refinery. The first double hull tanker built for Chevron after passage of the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990, it brings to six the number of such vessels in the Chevron fleet. The company's building program calls for

April 19, 1993

Units of Chevron Corp. and Conoco Inc. are expanding their fleets of crude oil tankers with double hull vessels.

Chevron's Chevron Atlantic will carry about 1 million bbl of crude oil on voyages from the West Coast of Africa to the company's 172,800 b/cd Philadelphia refinery.

The first double hull tanker built for Chevron after passage of the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990, it brings to six the number of such vessels in the Chevron fleet. The company's building program calls for six more double hull tankers to be delivered between October 1992 and yearend 1994.

Meantime, Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries finished construction of Conoco Shipping Co.'s Pioneer, Conoco's third double hull tanker.

Christened at Samsung's Koje Island yard in South Korea, it is one of four double hull tankers Conoco plans to have working in the Gulf of Mexico by yearend. They are carrying crude oil from Venezuela to Conoco's 165,000 b/cd Lake Charles, La., refinery.

Conoco's first double hull tankers, Patriot and Guardian, were delivered last year.