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  • Army Corps: Wallops Island’s Beach Complete, Infrastructure Protected (USA)

    10 August 2012

    More than 3 million cubic yards of newly deposited sand is protecting the launch pads and critical infrastructure at the Wallops Island NASA flight facility. Three dredges from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock created the buffer between the structures on the island and the Atlantic Ocean. According to Paul Bull, a NASA project manager, the […]

  • Rockhopper Spuds Appraisal Well on PL032 Licence, Offshore Falkland Islands

    21 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Rockhopper Exploration plc, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that the 14/10-4 appraisal well was spudded at 0040hrs GMT on 19 February 2011. 14/10-4 is the first appraisal well to be drilled on the Sea Lion feature situated on Licence PL032, which is 100% owned and operated by Rockhopper. The […]

  • Van Oord Proposes Turkmenistan to Establish an Artificial Island in Caspian Sea

    29 August 2011

    The Dutch Company Van Oord proposed for an artificial island in the Caspian Sea near the Avaz Sea Resort of Turkmenistan, the local media… (trend) [mappress] Source: trend, August 29, 2011;

  • DW: Block Island OWF to Boost Investment in U.S. OW Sector

    25 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    For the US energy industry, 2014 will be remembered as the year when crude oil prices fell below 50$/bbl, resulting in significant realignments in the sector, Douglas-Westwood said. Aside from the oil price collapse and the historic high of domestic natural gas production, several other energy records were set last year. Both solar and wind […]

  • Block Island OWF Transmission Cable Will Not Run through Narragansett, USA

    6 August 2013
    Storage

    Providence-based offshore wind energy developer has withdrawn its application to run a transmission cable through the Town of Narragansett, writes the Providence Journal. Namely, Deepwater Wind planned to place the electric cable from the Block Island wind farm, made of 5 wind turbines, to the Block Island before landing on the mainland at Narragansett Town […]

  • Island of Yell to House First Community-Owned Tidal Power Plant

    25 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Island of Yell, one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland could soon house the world’s first community-owned tidal energy generator, as the necessary components have arrived there and are waiting to be assembled. The installation of the 30kW tidal project, developed by the North Yell Development Council, will start within a week, subject […]

  • USA: Rhode Island Senate to Vote on Fall River LNG Project

    4 April 2011

    The Rhode Island Senate will soon weigh in on a proposal to build an offshore natural gas facility in Mount Hope Bay… (washingtonexaminer) [mappress] Source: washingtonexaminer, April 4, 2011;

  • Trelleborg Wins Contract for Three Curtis Island LNG Projects (Australia)

    24 June 2013
    Project & Tenders

    Trelleborg Marine Systems has been awarded three contracts to supply fender systems to all three liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on Queensland’s Curtis Island, Australia. Having already been awarded the contracts to supply docking and mooring equipment and monitoring software earlier in the year, Trelleborg has now been chosen to supply the Queensland Curtis LNG, […]

  • Singapore: Construction of Container Berth at Jurong Island to Start on July 15th

    9 July 2010
    Project & Tenders

    Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore informs the shipping, harbour craft and pleasure craft communities in Singapore’s waters that construction of container berth and stacking yard on West Jurong Channel at  Jurong Island starts next week. Construction works will take place from 15 Jul 2010 to 14 Jan 2011. Works include: Construction of the new […]

  • USA: Marsh Island Dredging Provides Flood Risk Reduction Benefits

    22 June 2012

    As construction workers maneuver bulldozers and spread sand to restore the degrading marsh island, Yellow Bar Hassock in Jamaica Bay, N.Y., their work is being closely observed by an area resident. “For the past few months we’ve seen him on the site. He just keeps doing his thing,” said Melissa Alvarez, a Senior Project Biologist […]

  • Zeeland Seaports: LNG bunkering pilot project kicks off at Vlissingen port

    11 April 2016

    Zeeland Seaports on Monday informed an LNG bunkering pilot project was launched with the truck-to-ship bunkering operation in the port of Vlissingen.

  • DFDS Strengthens Ties with Port of Ghent

    30 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS has signed a strategic partnership with Belgium-based Ghent Port Company as the shipping firm aims to strengthen its position in the port of Ghent. Namely, DFDS has decided to increase the number of ro/ro freight sailings between Ghent and Gothenburg and strengthen its hinterland anchoring by transporting containers in a fixed schedule […]

  • Minesto-led consortium gets $2.6M for tidal microgrid in Faroe Islands

    30 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Minesto, a Swedish tidal energy developer, is leading a consortium of four that has been awarded a SEK 25 million (approximately $2.6 million) grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency to build a complete microgrid installation in the Faroe Islands. The consortium includes Minesto, microgrid technology provider Capture Energy, Faroese utility company SEV, and IVL […]

  • Ampelman reveals gangway for extreme cold conditions

    20 April 2017
    Equipment

    Dutch offshore access specialist Ampelmann has unveiled the latest Walk to Work system which has been specially designed for operation in extreme cold, non-Arctic, conditions down to -28C. The N-type, nicknamed Icemann, was officially launched on Thursday, April 20, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. According to Ampelmann, the fully enclosed and insulated system is designed to safely transfer […]

  • Nassau Dredging Tender Online

    1 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Florida Inland Navigation District (District) has just released a tender for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIW) maintenance dredging project. The project includes dredging approximately 170,000 cubic yards (cy) of material from two distinct areas of the AIW in Nassau County. Dredging will excavate the AIW channel to a target elevation of -14 feet (ft) […]

  • Swire Shipping: 3 ships serving the Pacific Islands switch to biofuel

    24 April 2025
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Singapore-based shipping company Swire Shipping revealed that three of its vessels serving the South Pacific have made the switch to B24 and B30 second-generation biofuel blends.

  • Wales funds Nova Innovation’s ‘blue energy island’ tidal scheme

    12 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    Scottish tidal energy company Nova Innovation has secured an investment of £1.2 million from the Welsh government for its Enlli tidal energy project in North Wales.

  • India’s PM inaugurates submarine cable linking Andaman and Nicobar Islands

    10 August 2020
    Infrastructure

    A submarine optical fibre cable connecting Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India has been inaugurated. The submarine cable will also connect Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock), Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Kamorta, Great Nicobar, Long Island, and Rangat.  The inauguration was announced earlier by the India’s prime minister Narendra Modi on social media. “Today, 10th […]

  • Costa Favolosa Denied Docking in Virgin Islands over Sick Passengers

    28 February 2020

    Cruise ships are struggling to maintain their itineraries amid fears related to the coronavirus outbreak.

  • TMS Busy in the Shetland Islands, Toft Pier Development in Full Swing

    28 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    TMS Ltd crews are currently in the Shetland Islands, a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, working on Toft Pier development. According to their latest project update, the weather has been testing them, but the sixth pile gate has now been set up on the seaward side. “Now that the piles are complete […]

  • Island Offshore Orders Subsea Support Vessel from STX OSV

    19 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    STX OSV Holdings Limited (“STX OSV”), one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, has secured a new contract for the construction of one advanced subsea support vessel for Island Offshore. The value of the contract amounts to more than NOK 500 million(USD 86.8 million). The vessel will be of […]

  • Desire Petroleum Spuds Well at Ninky Prospect Off Falkland Islands

    29 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    Desire Petroleum plc the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin announces that the 14/15-3 exploration well on the Ninky prospect was spudded at 02.45 BST on 29 March 2011. The prospect is a combined structural dip and stratigraphic pinch-out trap with multiple reservoir targets within the Barremian source rock interval. […]

  • Norway: Ulstein Verft Sells Construction Vessel Karianne to Island Offshore

    20 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      Ulstein Verft has sold the construction vessel Karianne of SX121 type design to Island Offshore. The vessel was completed on time from ULSTEIN in the fourth quarter of 2010. The vessel was originally contracted by the shipping company Marine Subsea, which could not to take delivery of her after completion. CEO Gunvor Ulstein says […]

  • Norway: Statoil Hires New Vessel Island Constructor for LWI Services

    16 December 2011

      Statoil awarded Island Offshore a framework agreement for light well intervention (LWI) services from their Island Constructor vessel. The new vessel is set for operation in December, and is Statoil’s third light well intervention vessel in operation on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Light well intervention vessels – known as cat A – are […]

  • MSC Seaside Crewman Falls Overboard off US Virgin Islands

    17 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    USCG: A crewmember from the cruise ship MSC Seaside went overboard off US Virgin Islands on May 16.