Readers’ Picks of the Week (July 17-21, 2017)
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from July 17 – 23, 2017.
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 17–23, 2017). Boskalis Bags EUR60 Million Norvik Deal Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Ports of Stockholm to construct the quay wall for the new Stockholm Norvik Port in Sweden. Van Oord Wins Dubai
Schlumberger has narrowed its second quarter loss to $74 million, compared to $2,16 billion a year ago. The world’s largest oilfield services provider posted the second quarter revenue of $7,46 billion, 4 percent up from $7,16 billion in the corresponding quarter of 2016. Sequentially, revenue grew
UK-based offshore driller Ensco has found work for a number of its jack-up as well as semi-submersible drilling rigs in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Australia, and Qatar. According to the driller’s latest fleet status report issued on Thursday, two semi-submersible drilling rigs have been awarded
Houston-based oil and gas company Vaalco Energy has been forced to temporarily shut in a well at the Avouma platform offshore Gabon due to a problem with an electrical submersible pump. Vaalco said that an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in the South Tchibala 2-H well failed on July 18, resulting
The number of active shipyards on a global scale has dropped by 62 percent since the beginning of 2009, according to Clarksons shipping consultancy. Specifically, there was a total of 358 active yards, defined as having at least one unit under construction, as of July 2017, a slashed figure when com
African Petroleum (AP) has allowed for its exclusivity agreement with an unnamed oil and gas company, covering the farm-out of the SOSP license in Senegal and the A1 and A4 licenses in The Gambia, to lapse while hoping to resolve the uncertainty over its position in The Gambia early next month. Afri
Sparrows Group and SPIE Oil & Gas Services have secured their first joint delivery project, which is in West Africa, after Total awarded the partners a crane maintenance contract on the Moho Nord offshore development. Total started production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 kilo
United Arab Emirates-based natural gas company, Dana Gas, has decided to use AGR software for deep water exploration in Egypt. AGR said on Wednesday that the company’s software team signed a software as a service contract with Dana Gas PJSC to supply the latest version of its P1 software. According
The inexperience of the crew of the Domingue tug that sank while assisting the container ship CMA CGM Simba in the port of Tulear, Madagascar in September 2016 was one of the reasons behind the tug’s sinking that resulted in two deaths. A report from the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MA
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has released in its latest Terra et Aqua an article named ‘Innovative Modelling: A Tool for Coastal Developments’. There are numerous examples across the globe that attest to environmental damages and detrimental economic consequences that c
