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Feb. 02, 1959 - 9, 200 Mile Ocean tow for first British Built drilling Platform. The first mobile oil drilling platform to be built in the United Kingdom, the Orient Explorer will be towed to British Borneo in the third week of this month. It was designed by the De Long Corporation of America and built by Steel Structures Ltd, an associate of the John Howard group of engineering companies at a cost of nearly ? 1 million. completely self contained with air conditioned living accommodation for 56 men, it is fitted with helicopter landing stage and has been built to withstand wild force of 100 miles of an hour. The Orient Express will be hired to the Brunel Shell Petroleum company ltd, to continue explorations drilling in the high seas off Borneo. Photo shows The Orient Explorer at Southampton/

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