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  • USA: Maine gets ocean engineering research lab

    24 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The newly built facilities, located on the University of Maine campus, will be used to prototype coastal and offshore structures, including ships, aquaculture facilities, oil and gas structures, and ocean energy devices under extreme wave, wind and current environments. The total construction, equipping and start-up of the new laboratories over the first three years will […]

  • KCA Deutag partners up with India’s Kavin Engineering

    6 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    RDS and Kavin Engineering and Services have entered into a strategic alliance to jointly pursue design and engineering projects across the upstream and midstream oil and gas market. 

  • MegaPEX 2014 to Bring New Data on Sand Engine

    16 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The MegaPEX 2014, a large measurement campaign to study the behavior of the Sand Engine peninsula, both on the beach and in the sea, has just started. The campaign will run till October 27. The Sand Engine is a 128-acre artificial peninsula off the Dutch coast that has been created for an innovative way of beach […]

  • ScottishPower Invests in East Anglia’s Future Energy Engineers

    21 July 2016
    Human Capital

    The ScottishPower Foundation has selected four students who will receive fully funded postgraduate scholarship places at the University of East Anglia (UEA), following a rigorous interview process which also involved offshore wind farm developer ScottishPower Renewables and Professor Lawrence Coates, Head of Engineering at UEA.   With funding donated to the ScottishPower Foundation from ScottishPower Renewables, […]

  • Chief Engineer Found Guilty of Using ”Magic Hose”

    19 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The chief engineer from the 2000-built, 75,600 dwt bulk carrier M/V Trident Navigator was convicted by a federal jury in New Orleans after a week-long trial, of knowingly falsifying the vessel’s oil record book in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), obstruction of justice and witness tampering, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for […]

  • Arklow Vessel Towed to Safety after Engine Failure

    12 September 2018
    Business & Finance

    The bulk carrier Arklow Resolve suffered an engine failure off Marstrand, Sweden.

  • Nominee videos for the Offshore Energy Young Engineer Award

    22 September 2017

    On 9 October the Offshore Energy Opening Gala Dinner and Awards show will be taking place at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. This sold out event offers not only a culinary dinner and live entertainment, but also celebrates the successes within the industry. Recently, the nominees were announced online, with the winners being announced […]

  • Chief of Engineers Pens Skokomish River Restoration Report

    18 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has signed a key restoration report allowing Congress to consider the Skokomish River Basin Ecosystem Restoration Project for future authorization. The “Chief’s Report” for the Skokomish Restoration Project was signed December 14, 2015 by Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, USACE Commander and Chief of Engineers. The recommendations […]

  • USA: Taylor Engineering Selected to Restore FPL Dune

    29 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    During the last week of October, 2012, the passage of Hurricane Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean, while well offshore of the St. Lucie Plant site, caused high seas and significant erosion of the protective dune along the shoreline of the FPL’s property. Specifically, the erosion destroyed a newly constructed dune built as part of headwall […]

  • Minesto Mechanical Design Engineer Position Up for Grabs

    10 September 2019
    Technology

    Swedish marine energy developer Minesto is looking for an experienced mechanical design engineer. The role is a full-time position based at Minesto’s head office in Gothenburg (Nya Varvet, Västra Frölunda). The engineer will be working in the Design Group based in Gothenburg, but also close to Minesto’s colleagues in Northern Ireland and Wales. The role […]

  • USA: Collins Establishes Corps of Engineers Reform Caucus

    4 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) has announced the creation of the “Corps of Engineers Reform Caucus.” The group, chaired by Rep. Collins, will focus its attention on ideas to overhaul the Corps of Engineers to better serve as a responsive and fiscally responsible agency. Collins announced the creation recently, after touring both Buford and Hartwell Dams […]

  • Australia: Pluto LNG Project Wins Engineering Award

    21 November 2012

    Woodside’s Pluto LNG Project has received Australia’s highest honour in engineering, the Sir William Hudson Award presented by Snowy Hydro Ltd. The award was conferred at the 2012 Australian Engineering Excellence Awards; an annual event held in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra. Located at Karratha, Western Australia, the project pipes natural gas from […]

  • Wärtsilä, CSSC Finalize 2-Stroke Engine JV

    19 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The joint venture deal between Wärtsilä and shipbuilding conglomerate China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for the take-over of Wärtsilä’s 2-stroke engine business, which was announced in July 2014, has been finalized. The required government and merger control approvals having been received, official closing took place on 19 January 2015. The joint venture assumes ownership of Wärtsilä’s […]

  • China: JV Shanghai MHI Engine Begins Operation

    11 March 2013

    Shanghai MHI Engine Co., Ltd., a manufacturer and marketer of diesel engines jointly established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., Ltd. (SDEC) – a major Chinese diesel engine manufacturer – has launched operation. The JV aims to establish a solid position in the rapidly expanding Chinese market for industrial-use diesel […]

  • Samsung Engineering Appoints New Offshore Division COO

    14 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Samsung Engineering has appointed Michel Laine as chief operating officer of its newly established offshore segment, effective December 20, 2012. Laine’s career in offshore began in 1982 with ETPM, followed by Technip and Bouygues Offshore S.A. (acquired by Saipem). Since 2002, he held key management positions such as managing director of Saipem Indonesia and Saipem […]

  • STX Heavy Industries of Korea Unveils Hybrid Engine

    23 April 2013

    STX Heavy Industries of Korea has held a celebration ceremony for successful domestic development of hybrid engine (DF engine) for onshore and offshore uses to be installed on LNG carrier at its Changwon yard in South Gyeongsang Province on April 15. The newly developed STX-MDT 51/60DF engines are designed to run on both gas and […]

  • Corps of Engineers Unveil Plan for Duxbury Harbor Dredging

    13 September 2010

    At the request of the Duxbury harbormaster and the Duxbury Bay Management Commission, the Army Corps of Engineers is planning to dredge Duxbury Harbor. The harbor needs to be dredged every 10 years, according to Harbormaster Don Beers. In fact, plans for this project began as soon as the last dredging ended in 1997, he […]

  • HHI Slashes NOx Emissions from Marine Engines

    3 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    South Korea-based shipbuilder and marine engine maker Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has produced the world’s first High Pressure Selective Catalytic Reduction (HP SCR) system for the dramatic reduction of NOx emission from 2-stroke marine engines. According to HHI, the HP SCR can reduce NOx emission up to 99 percent by using ammonia as a catalyst, and thus […]

  • Split-cycle engine simulations suggest fuel saving

    17 January 2011

    Massachusetts-based engine-developer Scuderi has disclosed that results from vehicle simulations conducted on its split-cycle engine have shown that it could use between 25-36 per cent less fuel than a conventional engine.

  • Wartsila X92 Engines to Power Ciner’s New Boxships

    9 December 2013

    Wartsila is to supply its Wartsila X92 main engine for a series of four Post Panamax 9000 TEU container ships to be built for the Ciner Group, based in Istanbul, Turkey. There is also an option for a fifth vessel. Each vessel will be powered by an 8-cylinder Wärtsilä X92 engine. The ships will be […]

  • Terntank Opts for Wartsila’s New Dual-Fuel Engines

    2 December 2013

    Wartsila has announced that its new 2-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel engine has been selected by Terntank Rederi A/S, the Denmark based tanker operator, to power two new environmentally advanced, 15,000 DWT tankers. These will be the first installations of this engine. The new Wärtsilä technology was just recently introduced at a customer event held at […]

  • Zhongxing Engineering to Build Two Oil Tanker Superstructures

    23 August 2013

    Recently, Zhongxing Sea-Land Engineering Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of the COSCO Shipyard Group, entered into a contract with Guangzhou Shipyard International Company (GSI) to build a pair of 115,000-dwt oil tanker superstructures, as well as an LOI (letter of intent) to build two more superstructures for a pair of 308,000-dwt very large crude carriers […]

  • Wärtsilä Retrofits German Ferry with Dual-Fuel Engines

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded an important retrofitting contract by the German shipyard, BVT – Brenn – und Verformungstechnik Bremen GmbH. The project entails converting the m/v Ostfriesland, a car and passenger ferry owned by Aktien-Gesellschaft “EMS“, so that it can utilise liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. […]

  • China Yuchai Starts Gas Engine Development Project

    7 March 2012

    China Yuchai International Limited announced that its main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited (GYMCL) has inaugurated a new project to develop and produce a full portfolio of natural gas powered engines to complement its existing suite of diesel engines. Customers will be offered a greater choice of GYMCL’s engines to meet their needs, […]

  • Norway: Engineering Students Dream of Statoil and Aker Solutions

    18 May 2012

    In the 2012 Universum Top 100 Ideal Employer student survey, Aker Solutions, a Norway-based international oilfield services provider, is voted the second most attractive employer in Norway by final-year engineering students. Norway’s oil giant Statoil took the first place. Every year, Universum surveys students and asks them questions about their career expectations, how they perceive […]