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  • Eyemouth Dredging Program Wrapped Up

    21 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Eyemouth Harbor Trust has just announced that the Eyemouth Harbor dredging operations, conducted by Shearwater Dredging Ltd., are successfully completed. This cleanup scheme, which started on April 3, involved dredging works in the harbor entrance and an area called ‘the canyon’. “Soundings currently indicate minimum depths of 1.0m below datum in the harbor entrance, however […]

  • Northern HeliCopter secures HEMS contract for German offshore wind farms

    7 April 2020
    Safety

    Northern HeliCopter GmbH has won a contract to provide rescue services for the Riffgat and Alpha Ventus offshore wind farms in Germany. Northern HeliCopter will carry out helicopter rescue services (HEMS) for offshore personnel in connection with the operation of the projects. The contract includes both the flying and the medical components, as well as a […]

  • AMCS: New Report Reveals “Unplanned Dumping” (Australia)

    19 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Australian Marine Conservation Society has slammed the Gladstone Ports Corporation for dumping 1500 litres of raw sewerage and failing to prevent a large number of environmental incidents in it’s dredging projects. Felicity Wishart, AMCS’s Great Barrier Reef campaign director said that a new report has revealed 35 oil spills, ‘unplanned dumping’ of more than […]

  • Serica renews North Sea deal with Sparrows

    7 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Serica Energy has awarded a crane operations and maintenance services contract on one of its platforms in the UK North Sea to Sparrows Group.

  • Well-Safe selects helicopter operator for North Sea ops

    25 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Offshore Helicopter Services UK Limited has secured a new contract with Well-Safe Solutions for operations off the UK.

  • Aker BP and Equinor to coordinate development of North Sea licences

    11 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Aker BP and Equinor have entered into an agreement in principle on commercial terms for a coordinated development of the licences Krafla, Fulla, and North of Alvheim.

  • Norway’s Equinor spuds North Sea wildcat well

    9 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has started drilling operations on the Kveikje exploration well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.

  • Osbit Expands Headquarters

    13 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Work has started on expanding Osbit’s headquarters to accommodate the company’s expanding workforce and facilitate an increase in demand for its engineering expertise in the global offshore renewables and oil & gas markets. The company is constructing a new single-storey extension within the site of its head office in Northumberland, UK to deliver an additional […]

  • OKEA buoyed up as first oil flows from Repsol’s Yme field

    26 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    OKEA has confirmed the first oil production achievement at the Repsol-operated Yme field in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • Keel laid for Port of Amsterdam’s hydrogen ship

    23 January 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Vessels

    The keel laying ceremony of the Neo Orbis, a pilot ship for the H2Ships project, has been held at Dutch shipbuilding company Next Generation Shipyards, marking the start of the ship’s construction. H2Ships is the Interreg North-West Europe project that will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of hydrogen bunkering and propulsion for shipping, identifying the […]

  • Offshore drillers see meaningful improvement in market environment

    2 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Two giant offshore drilling contractors are encouraged by meaningful signs of improvement in the market and increase in rig day rates.

  • Drill bit spins at exploration well in North Sea

    27 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Ofelia exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Danes to start offshore wind site surveys for Baltic Sea energy island

    30 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has given the green light to Energinet to start preliminary offshore investigations at the areas in the Baltic Sea where the country could build two offshore wind farms that would be connected to the planned energy island on Bornholm. Based on the permit from the DEA, Energinet will deploy survey […]

  • UK: Parrett and Tone Dredging Kicks Off

    31 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Dredging of the rivers Parrett and Tone has now started. The crucial 8km stretch that was identified by the Environment Agency (EA) modelling following the flood event of 2012 is currently where the operation is taking place. Dredging will start at Moorland House Farm with a long reach excavator. This is one of the key […]

  • Total taps Shearwater for survey over Mauritania blocks

    28 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Vessels

    Shearwater GeoServices has received an award for a large towed streamer 3D acquisition and fast track processing project by Total in Mauritania.

  • Drop-in Session for St Asaph Flood Defenses

    26 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    People in St Asaph are being invited to a public drop-in session, run by Natural Resources Wales, to find out more about the next steps towards improving flood defenses in the city. Funding of £3 million was confirmed for the scheme by the Welsh Government at the end of last year, enabling construction to start […]

  • Dredging of the New Soo Locks About to Begin

    8 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, has announced that the New Lock at the Soo project is on schedule as construction for phase one of the project began this week. According to the Corps, Trade West Construction, Inc., began to move equipment to the site on May 4 and will begin deepening the […]

  • Federal Funding Breathes Life Into Greens Bayou Project

    25 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, and Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) will start work on the Greens Bayou Flood Damage Reduction Project in north Harris County this year due to $8 million in start-up funding allocated in the federal fiscal year 2015 budget for the Corps’ Civil Works program. Shakhar Misir, […]

  • STATS Group gets major Middle East subsea pipeline job

    7 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    The UAE-headquartered oil and gas EPC contractor National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) has appointed STATS Group to carry out a major subsea pipeline intervention scope. STATS Group’s scope of work includes the hot tapping and double block and bleed isolation of multiple pipelines with diameters ranging from 42” up to 56” in the Middle East […]

  • Stage set for Western Gas to drill ‘one of the most anticipated exploration wells’ in Australia

    7 April 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    After confirming rig mobilisation date, Western Gas has set all the wheels in motion to drill the Sasanof-1 well on the North West Shelf.

  • Innogy reaches Kaskasi FID, reveals Tier 1 team

    3 April 2020
    Project & Tenders

    German energy company innogy SE has reached a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the 342 MW Kaskasi offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea. In preparation for the construction, contracts for all major components have been signed, innogy said. Located 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland, Kaskasi will feature 38 Siemens […]

  • OKEA enters Neptune’s license near Draugen field

    25 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company OKEA has signed a sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Neptune Energy for the acquisition of a 30 per cent working interest in offshore license PL938.

  • More improvement needed before West Bollsta rig gets compliance award

    3 June 2020
    Authorities & Government, Certification & Classification, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found one improvement point regarding an application for the Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the West Bollsta drilling rig.

  • Northern Offshore’s jack-up rig kicks off drilling operations in Qatar

    15 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Northern Offshore’s drilling rig Energy Enticer has started drilling operations with Qatargas.

  • More OBN work on Magseis Fairfield’s to-do list

    21 January 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian survey services provider Magseis Fairfield is strengthening its backlog for 2022 with the new contract extension as well as confirmation of the recent conditional award.