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  • Royal Navy Divers Clear Garvie Island UXO

    3 November 2016

    Fifteen Royal Navy clearance divers from the Clyde-based Northern Diving Group (NDG) recently traveled to Cape Wrath in Scotland to tackle unexploded ordnance left over from military exercises. The military training range at Cape Wrath is an important defence asset, a remote 107-square miles of moorland used to help armed forces practice vital skills used […]

  • Island Offshore Aims for Riserless Heavy Well Intervention

    14 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Following a successful deployment of its riserless coil tubing (CT) technology in the offshore petroleum industry, Island Offshore is said to be taking it to the next level by performing heavy well intervention with coil tubing in producing subsea wells. In 2015 Island Offshore made history when drilling a pilot hole for Centrica by means of riserless coil […]

  • More Money for South Padre Island Beach Renourishment

    18 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    The city of South Padre Island is about to receive $$1.25 million from the Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Grant for the city’s beach renourishment project. This was announced by Reuben Treviño, Coastal Resource and Parks Administrator, following last week’s Shoreline Task Force meeting. According to the Texas General Land Office (GLO), the purpose of the CEPRA Program is […]

  • India to Develop Its First Modern Inland Waterway

    13 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    The World Bank will support India with a $375 million loan in their plans to develop its first modern inland water transport fairway on a 1,360 km-stretch of the Ganga River between Varanasi and the seaport of Haldia. The World Bank’s Board yesterday approved this loan loan to help the Inland Waterways Authority of India […]

  • Hilton Head Island: CSD Savannah Ready for Action

    21 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Town of Hilton Head Island has just released the latest update on their beach fill scheme, saying that the Marinex Construction’s cutterhead suction dredger Savannah, along with attendant tug boats, barges and support vessels are expected to arrive in the area during the following days. The dredger will be taken off tow and made ready to start the […]

  • All Set for Hilton Head Island Tilling Operations

    13 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Beginning Monday, January 16, 2017 the Hilton Head Island’s subcontractor, Eastman Aggregates, will begin tilling those portions of the Island’s beach which were recently renourished. The tilling is a requirement of the beach renourishment project permits and is done to ensure suitable nesting habitat for sea turtles. The portions of the beach affected by this […]

  • Portugal Cove and Bell Island Schemes in Full Swing

    20 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Construction is well underway on wharf upgrades in Portugal Cove and on Bell Island to accommodate the new ferry MV Legionnaire, according to Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Transportation and Works. The timeline for this project has been extended due in part to the addition of a new mooring system for the vessel and […]

  • BFC Gets OK for Turukhtanniye Islands Land Reclamation

    31 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Baltic Fuel Company (BFC) has been granted a permit by the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot) for the reclamation works at its Marine Oil Terminal “Turukhtannye Islands” facility in St. Petersburg. The latest development follows BFC’s announcement from last month that it had signed an agreement with Rosmorrechflot for the 1.43 hectare Turukhtanniye Islands reclamation project. […]

  • DEME Presents Ilubirin Lagos Lagoon Islands Project

    7 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    DEME has just released a video about another project in Lagos, the Ilubirin Lagos Lagoon Islands Project, for which the company was awarded the dredging and reclamation contract. Dredging International Services Nigeria Ltd (DISN), a full subsidiary of DEME, carried out the phase one of Ilubirin reclamation project. The scope of the first phase included reclamation of […]

  • Pacific Islands Project Takes Out Top Award

    5 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    An aid project delivered in Tuvalu by Australian-owned dredging and civil construction company Hall Pacific in conjunction with New Zealand’s Calibre Consulting has taken out a prestigious Gold Award as part of the 2016 Innovate Awards of Excellence held in New Zealand in September. The awards recognize excellence in engineering and consulting and saw the […]

  • Coney Island T-groin Scheme Nears Completion

    11 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Coney Island T-groin Project, located in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, NY is nearing its completion. Andrew Masella, civil engineer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, in this video discusses the importance of the projects features and benefits the community of Sea Gate will receive after the construction of the T-groins. The Coney […]

  • GLDD Wraps Up Whiskey Island Coastal Restoration

    23 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLDD) completed the 10.7 million cubic yard coastal restoration of Whiskey Island in Louisiana earlier this month. This $100 million project involved dredging and pumping sand from a BOEM offshore borrow area over 15 miles to restore the eroded barrier island. The restoration of Whiskey Island is located along […]

  • Sampson’s Island: Cotuit Bay Dredging About to Begin

    5 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Department of Public Works, in collaboration with Three Bays Preservation, Massachusetts Audubon and Barnstable County, will begin the dredging operations of the Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel and the western tip of Sampson’s Island this week. The Town of Barnstable, MA, said in its latest announcement that this phase of the project will widen the […]

  • Wintershall to Use Island Offshore Vessels on Vega Field

    7 April 2016

    Wintershall Norge AS has received consent to use the mobile drilling facilities Island Frontier and Island Wellserver for intervention work on the Vega field. The two vessels provide light well intervention services and associated work, construction work, subsea installation work, securing of wells, IMR work, supply duties. Vega lies due north of the Fram field in […]

  • Island Offshore Sending Two Ships on Draugen Job

    6 April 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Island Offshore has secured work for two of its vessels, Island Valiant and Island Constructor, at the Draugen field for Norske Shell. Island Valiant will start with IMR work (Inspection, Maintenance and Repair) on three wells in April, preparing the wells for the work which Island Constructor will perform later this summer. The time frame […]

  • Erin Energy Hires Island Constructor for Oyo Work

    30 March 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Erin Energy has mobilized the Island Constructor light well intervention (LWI) vessel to the Oyo field, offshore Nigeria. The vessel will be used for LWI service on the Oyo-8 well, which has been necessitated by the failure of the well’s sub-surface controlled sub-surface safety valve (SCSSV) to open following a planned production curtailment in the Oyo field, the […]

  • Island Frontier to Conduct Well-Plugging Work for Statoil

    4 November 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received consent to use Island Frontier for preparatory well-plugging work at Statfjord Øst and Sleipner Øst. Statfjord Øst is an oilfield located around seven kilometers north-east of the Statfjord field in the northern part of the North Sea. The field has been developed using three subsea templates tied back to the Statfjord C facility. […]

  • Osiris Projects Nears Completion of Highlands & Islands Works

    17 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Osiris Projects is nearing completion of the ambitious works on the subsea cabling project which will help deliver fast, fibre optic broadband to the Highlands and Islands. In March 2013, BT was awarded a contract by Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) to deliver high speed fibre optic broadband across the Highlands & Islands region. This project will […]

  • VIDEO: Ulstein’s Island Performer Prepares for Action in GoM

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Named in the Geiranger fjord, the subsea vessel ‘Island Performer’ is getting ready for her work for FTO in the Gulf of Mexico. Next week, she’ll be out and about for ship owner Island Offshore. The vessel is equipped with a large intervention tower over the main moon pool, a 250-tonne AHC Offshore Crane and […]

  • SHEPD Project Secures UK Islands’ Electricity Supplies

    25 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Electricity supplies to communities in some of the most remote islands in the UK are more resilient following a £2.77m subsea investment. SHEPD has now completed the installation of three high voltage underwater cables between Eriskay and Barra in the Outer Hebrides and Rousay, Eday and Westray in Orkney. The ambitious project to lay 21.4km […]

  • Island Offshore’s vessel gets more time with Equinor

    23 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Equinor has decided to keep one of Island Offshore’s offshore supply vessels (OSVs) busy for seven more months.

  • Greece: Upgraded Ionian Islands interconnector begins operation

    2 August 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Greek electricity grid operator Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or Admie) has put into operation the upgraded Zakynthos-Kyllini interconnection, said to secure the energy supply of the Ionian Islands. The new 150 kV high-voltage submarine cable system replaced the existing interconnection, which had been in continuous operation since the early 1980s and faced technical issues due […]

  • Earthquake Strikes Off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (USA)

    15 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      A powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale has struck off Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands on Wednesday morning, according to… RTT News [mappress] Source: RTT News, September 15, 2011;

  • New offshore installation vessel delivered to Island Offshore

    11 February 2020

    Island Offshore has taken delivery of a new offshore installation vessel named Island Victory.

  • Silvermere Completes Subsea Works for Mustang Island (USA)

    21 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Silvermere, the independent oil and gas company focused principally on appraisal and production opportunities in the US, announced further progress with the tie-in of the I-1 well in its Mustang Island 818-L Field. This is based on information provided by the Operator, Dominion Production Company LLC (“Dominion”). The pipeline installation was completed on 10th August […]