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  • French Energy Minister Confirmed for Ocean Energy Europe 2015

    23 September 2015
    Authorities & Government

    Ségolène Royal, the French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, has confirmed her participation in OEE2015 in Dublin. Minister Royal joins four other European ministers and an EU Commissioner already confirmed for the high level session at the conference. In a keynote speech on Tuesday 20 October, she will outline what the French government […]

  • Island Offshore Takes Delivery of Its Newbuild PSV

    21 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore has taken delivery of M/V Island Dawn from the Vard Brevik shipyard in Norway. This is the third platform supply vessel in a series of four Rolls-Royce UT 717 CD designs, delivered from the same yard. On this occasion Managing Director of Island Offshore, Håvard Ulstein said: “It is always a pleasure to […]

  • EU Takes Over Chairmanship of CGPCS in 2014

    27 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    From the 1st of January 2014 the European Union will assume for one year the chairmanship of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) with Maciej Popowski, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) as EU chairperson. While the number of hostages has gone down from more than […]

  • DAMEN and BINCO Ink Contract for Seven Vessels

    3 October 2013

    A special contract signing ceremony between Bin Nowiran for Trading & Contacting Co-(BINCO) (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and Damen Shipyards Group (The Netherlands) has taken place on October 1st, 2013 during the Seatrade Middle East Workboat & Offshore Marine exhibition in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The contract is for 7 vessels of 5 different ship types. […]

  • BINCO Contracts Damen for Seven Workboats

    3 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    A special contract signing ceremony between Bin Nowiran for Trading & Contacting Co-(BINCO) (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and Damen Shipyards Group (The Netherlands) has taken place on October 1st, 2013 during the Seatrade Middle East Workboat & Offshore Marine exhibition in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The contract is for 7 vessels of 5 different ship types. […]

  • 2018 in review: Editor’s picks

    1 January 2019

      Shell approves LNG Canada investment The Hague-based LNG giant Shell has taken a final investment decision on LNG Canada, a major liquefied natural gas export project in Kitimat, British Columbia. Inpex ships first Ichthys LNG cargo to Japan Japan’s Inpex said on Tuesday it has shipped the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from its […]

  • MISC takes delivery of 3rd Moss-type LNG carrier

    27 July 2017
    Vessels

    Malaysian LNG shipper MISC, a unit of energy giant Petronas, has taken delivery of its new LNG carrier named Seri Cempaka.

  • Court Freezes OTB Construction

    20 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Environment

    The Administrative Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen has decided to suspend the construction of the Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB), due to legal action taken against the project by the environmental organization BUND. Thereby, no construction works can be carried out at the OTB until further notice, the court said. However, this does not apply […]

  • SBM Offshore gets its hands on $250 million FPSO construction loan

    22 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore has secured a term loan facility that will be used for building an FPSO vessel.

  • Belgian meshed grid to the rescue as offshore wind export cable gets damaged

    30 January 2024
    Infrastructure

    The export cable of the Rentel offshore wind farm is reported to have been damaged. However, the offshore wind farm keeps feeding electricity into the Belgian grid as the offshore power hub, Modular Offshore Grid (MOG), has taken over. Elia, the operator of Belgium’s MOG, says that the cable from the Rentel platform to the […]

  • UTM Offshore making strides towards Nigeria’s first indigenous floating LNG project

    26 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    UTM Offshore and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have signed a shareholders agreement with Delta State Government for the development of the nation’s first indigenous floating LNG project. Under the agreement, which was hailed as a significant milestone in the development of the project, Delta State Government will own an 8% share of the project. […]

  • Gate terminal to boost LNG capabilities

    7 July 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    Dutch Gate terminal, a joint venture of Vopak and Gasunie, has taken initiatives to strengthen its position in the security of the LNG supply of Northwest Europe.

  • Canada: Bad Weather Delays Ojibwa’s Arrival

    13 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    The remnants of Hurricane Sandy played a big part in the discussions of the Project Ojibwa Engineering Team at their meeting in Hamilton on November 7. The wet and windy weather played havoc with several aspects of the preparation for the move and offload of HMCS Ojibwa, Canada’s last Oberon class Cold War submarine, at Port […]

  • Lake George Dredging Plan Causes Dispute (USA)

    29 November 2011

    Environmental groups and conservation officials have taken opposite sides on dredging Lake George’s large deltas expanded over the last several decades at the mouths of Hague Brook, Finkle Brook and English Brook. The Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Lake George Association have been pursuing efforts for three years to obtain permits […]

  • Two 8,500 TEU scrubber-fitted boxships delivered to Seaspan

    20 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Seaspan Corporation has taken delivery of two 8,500 TEU containerships.

  • Yangzijiang Shipbuilding scores 24,000 TEU boxship deal as Chinese builders seal 6 orders for world’s largest ULCVs

    30 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Environment, Vessels

    Chinese shipbuilder Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group has won a contract to build two 24,000 TEU ultra large containerships, the world’s largest boxships and the largest containerships to be built by the yard. The ships, being built for an unnamed owner, will feature optimized hull designs, high-efficiency propellers and energy-saving technology. They will meet the EEDI Phase […]

  • Eden Breakwater Wharf Plans Move Ahead

    4 December 2014
    Business & Finance

      NSW Trade & Investment Crown Lands has announced that planning for the Eden Breakwater Wharf Extension Project is underway. “Following the decision earlier this year Crown Lands has taken over responsibility from Bega Valley Shire Council for delivery of the project. The NSW government will work closely with Council during planning and construction for this important community project,” […]

  • Filling of New Pacific Locks

    23 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Panama Canal has taken yet another step forward toward the completion of the Canal Expansion Program as it begins to fill the Cocoli’s locks, on the Pacific side, following a similar and successful endeavor on the Atlantic side earlier this month. This important step marks the start of a deliberate and methodical phase of […]

  • Balance Island Concept in Bangladesh and Vietnam

    18 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Balance Island concept – developed by Grontmij, Imares and Waterachitect – will be taken to Southeast Asia to determine if it offers an effective solution to the salinization of drinking water and agricultural land in the river deltas of Bangladesh and Vietnam. The concept was developed two years ago specifically for the mouth of the Haringvliet, the Netherlands. […]

  • Appeals Court Reaches Decision on Lough Neagh Sand Dredging

    3 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Friends of the Earth has welcomed last week’s Northern Ireland Court of Appeal decision that the government acted unlawfully by not stopping the dredging at Lough Neagh, one of Europe’s most important wetlands. The environmental campaign group brought the legal challenge over the Northern Ireland government’s failure to stop sand extraction from Lough Neagh, which […]

  • Shell Authorizes Pierce Gas Project in North Sea

    3 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Shell and its partner Ithaca have taken a final investment decision on the Pierce Depressurisation Project in the UK Central North Sea. The move will enable Shell to start exporting gas from the Pierce field, which lies around 265 kilometers east of Aberdeen in Blocks 23/22a and 23/27 of the UK Continental Shelf sector of […]

  • H&L Contracting Dredging Barnegat Bay Channels

    24 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials have announced the start of navigation dredging in the Metedeconk River/Kettle Creek Complex, located in Ocean County. The dredging work is part of a $16 million project to continue returning State channels in Barnegat Bay to a state of good repair. This project includes dredging shoals in the […]

  • VIDEO: 10th Year of Fox River Dredging Underway

    30 July 2018
    Business & Finance

     J.F. Brennan Company Inc., a marine construction and environmental remediation company, has just released the latest update on the 2018 Fox River Cleanup Project. For the 10th year, the equipment is back in the water, dredging PCB sediment left behind from decades of pollution by the paper industry. Since 2009, more than 4.8 million […]

  • Importance of Houston Ship Channel Widening Highlighted

    9 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Chairman of Houston Port Commission, Ric Campo, joined Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of USACE, Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, on a helicopter tour of the Houston Ship Channel recently, witnessing first-hand the busiest ship channel in the nation and the constant vessel activity it experiences every day. During the tour, Campo reiterated the […]

  • VDAB Opts for Kongsberg Dredging Simulator

    9 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    VDAB, the Flemish Service for Employment and Vocational Training, has chosen a dredging simulator developed by Kongsberg on its K-Sim Navigation technology platform. “Selected during a multi-million Euro public tender initiated in September 2018 with the contract signed this April, the system will be installed at VDAB’s training facility in Zeebrugge, Belgium, where new and […]