Semi-submersible platform General Enrique Mosconi of YPF 1976

Bs. As .: Report where the journalist Tico Rodríguez Paz comments: - "We approach the semi-submersible platform and then arrive at it and show it to you in detail, where the new platform is navigating. in tow is 12 thousand tons with a displacement in drilling position of 17,600 tons This drilling unit from Durkenque, France, will be the most important one that has been carried out in the country and started on October 26 from Durkenque. Overseas tugboat that you are seeing, the Artic of 20 thousand HP of power is the one that leads to the platform towards Bahia Blanca.We are exactly 148 nautical miles from Mar del Plata, an hour and a half of helicopter, a Sikorsky S-61 device in which we are flying over so that you can observe the details, it is capable of drilling in areas of up to 200 meters of water depth, a circumstance that makes it suitable to operate throughout extension of the Argentine sea. It can drill more than 6,000 meters deep from the ocean floor and can also act with winds of up to 220 kilometers per hour and waves of up to 30 meters. There are only a few hours left until this semi-submersible YPF platform starts its exploration tasks in the Argentine seas. For example, this model has already proven its performance in the operations carried out and is integrated in that way to the process of our nation. You are already observing the profiles of the General Enrique Mosconi platform of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales. "(Tico Rodríguez Paz / Magnetic)
Date: 12/28/1976
Duration: 6 minutes
Code of the film: C-00729

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