EXPORT TO POLAND OF DRILLING RIGS AND ACCESSORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00328A000100170004-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 10, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

DEPAPTWNT ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EXPORT POLICY STRUCTURE
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Extension 4252) (Room 5312, Commerce Building) by the close of business April 2 09 1958
CONFIDENTIAL
*DOC Exempt Letter On File*
0. C. DOCUMENT NO. 14Z
TO: Chairman, Operating Committee
FROM: Commerce Liember
March 31, 1958
SUBJECT: Export to Poland of Drilling Rigs and Accessories
The Department of Commerce recommends that five pending applications
for the export to Poland of drilling rigs and accessories be approved.
Details are as follows:
(a) Case No. 219562
Commodity: 2 Rotary drill rigs with
180 bp input, trailer mounted,
with parts and accessories
Value: gill rigs - X125,600
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Parts and accessories - 22329
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Meal rating: 1150
(b) Case No. 211928
Commodity: '2 Rotary drill rigs with 350 by
input, trailer mounted
Value : X220..557
Meal rating: 1150 '
Case No. 213621
Commodity: Parts and accessories for rigs
covered by Case No. 211928
Value : 4723138
Meal rating: 1150
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(d) Case No. 213620
Commodity, 580 Rotary rock drill bits with tungsten carbide
.)75 Rotary core bits
Value : j256,148
kesl rating; 1150
(e) Case No. 211904
Commodity: 104,000 lbs. 2-7/8" drill pipe
Value : 4 20, 727
keel rating : 1154
The applicant on Case (a) above is George E, Failing Company, and the
ultimate consignee is the kinistry-of Fuel and Power, Katowice,
Poland, The applicant and ultimate consignee on the' other four cases
are, respectively, Idecc, Inc, and Centrala. HancLlu Zagranicznegego,
Katowice, Poland,
The stated end use for this equipment is for exploration for coal
deposits. The smaller rigs can be used.to:a depth of 2500 feet, while
the larger rigs will penetrate to d,400 feet. ?
Equipment ' of this .kind .is _ most generally used for oil prospecting,
and the proposed end use has'therefore.been thoroughly investigated
by BFC technicians, in consultation with personnel of the Bureau of
Twines and the Polish Embassy,
The` Bure u of. Mines advises that the stated end use is reasonable and
appropriate for the subject equipment? The area to be explored is in
the mountains bordering Czechoslovakia. This area has very watery
sands, and it is proposed to use the' "ground freezing" method of
drilling. In ground freez3,mg, , a hole of from sic to eight inches in
diameter is drilled and lined, and freezing . brinE- is then circulated
through the hole:' ?
The unusual depth for coal prospecting 'is accounted for by the depth
of Polish coal deposits. Some Polish coal mines are at present 3,000
feet deep.
Important technical data are required for production of the bits
covered by Case No. 213620, Theme'data,_however, are not extractable
from the bits themselves. (This matter was thoroughly investigated
when the proposed exchange of U.S, bit-making. technology for Russian
tuxbodrjlls was -under review.)
The Department of Commerce- therefore feels that the subject equipment
is reasonable and necessary for the civilian economy of Poland, and,
considering also the firm.-assurances Against transshipment which the
Poles have given to the U.S., believes that approval of these
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applications is appropriate pursuant to the intent and specific
provisions of PD 1315.
The Committee will be interested to note that this equipment is
being financed by a U.S. government loan, administered by the
Exim Bank.
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