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  • USA: Naples Bay Dredging Project Hinges on Island-Building Plans

    17 May 2011

    A plan to build islands of wildlife habitat in Naples Bay might turn into more than an ecosystem restoration project. They could be the key… By ERIC STAATS (naplesnews) [mappress] Source: naplesnews, May 17, 2011;

  • USA: Corps Begins Jetty Repair Work at South Padre Island

    28 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, began work on a $14.5 million jetty repair project at the entrance to the Brownsville Ship Channel with scheduled completion in 2014. Jetties, also known as stone breakwaters, minimize wave action along the shoreline and prevent sediment from filling the entrances to ship channels along the Texas […]

  • Norway: Statoil Recognises Transocean and Island Offshore for Their Well Done Work

    30 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Transocean Leader unit from Transocean and Island Offshore’s light well intervention vessel Island Frontier have been named by Statoil as its rig and intervention team of 2011 respectively. “These two winners have achieved outstanding results,” Margareth Øvrum, executive vice president for Technology, Projects and Drilling (TPD), said at the awards ceremony. “They have done […]

  • Movistar Launches Undersea Cable Linking Canary Islands with Peninsula (Spain)

    3 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Movistar has launched an undersea fibre-optic cable linking the Canary Islands with the Peninsula… (telecompaper) [mappress] Source: telecompaper ,March 03, 2011;  

  • FOGL: Falkland Islands seismic survey completed. Drilling in early 2015

    24 February 2014

    FOGL has informed that the PGS M/V Ramform Titan vessel has completed a 3D seismic survey over the Cretaceous Hersilia Fan complex within FOGL’s Northern Area Licences in the Falkland Islands. A total of 5,747 square kilometres of full fold seismic data have been acquired. This survey was designed to target a number of prospects […]

  • Rhine Port Group issues LNG response guidelines for inland navigation

    16 April 2015

    The Rhine Port Group consists of the Port of Rotterdam, the Port of Antwerp, the Port of Mannheim, the Port of Strasbourg and the Port of Switzerland, released the first issue of a recent LNG emergency and incident response study.

  • BC Ferries’ third LNG-fueled vessel refuels on Canary Islands

    9 May 2017
    Vessels

    BC Ferries’ Salish Raven, the third and final Salish Class LNG-fueled vessel stopped off in Santa Cruz, the Canary Islands on May 7 for refueling and provisioning.

  • Block Island Turbine Out of Action Until Second Half of February

    26 December 2016
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Storage, Technology

    One of the General Elecetric’s (GE) Haliade turbines installed at America’s first offshore wind farm will be out of action at least until the second half of February, according to a statement issued by Block Island Wind Farm’s Fisheries Liaison, Elizabeth Ann Marchetti. The wind farm’s turbine number two did not go online together with […]

  • Bill Gates yacht inspires new man-made Thai island

    18 May 2007

    A visit to Thailand by Bill Gates has inspired the construction of a man-made island off the resort of Phuket, so the world’s richest man and other billionaires can moor their huge yachts.

  • Wave energy a viable option for Pacific Island countries, study finds

    8 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    The Pacific Community (SPC), a scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, has released a study which states that wave energy could be a cost-effective energy resource for Pacific Island countries and territories.

  • Rhode Island Commerce Corporation Picks Humber’s Offshore Wind Brain

    3 May 2019

    Team Humber Marine Alliance and Aura Wind Energy have entered into a deal to develop an offshore wind strategy for the U.S. Rhode Island Commerce Corporation. The three parties signed a contract on 2 May said to be the result of work to develop relationships with the U.S. East Coast over the last three years. The […]

  • USA: Inland Dredging Co. Bags Neches River Dredging Contract

    29 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to Inland Dredging Co. for the Neches River Channel dredging project, located in Jefferson and Orange Counties, Texas. Inland Dredging Co., LLC, Dyersburg, Tenn., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, non-option, non-multi-year contract of $12,747,180 for the dredging of approximately 3,537,000 cubic yards from the federal channel and […]

  • Government Proposes to Allow Ground Investigation Works at Lamma Island (China)

    12 July 2013

    The Government proposes to allow the Hongkong Electric Company, Limited to carry out offshore ground investigation works involving borehole drilling and soil sampling at the sea-bed of 35 locations situated about 3.5 kilometres southwest of Lamma Island. The works are part of the feasibility study on utilising wind energy for power generation at the proposed […]

  • South Padre Island beaches (USA) restored soon with channel sediment

    5 February 2010

    Work will soon begin to install the equipment necessary to begin the placement of material from dredging of the channel on South Padre Island beaches. [mappress] Source: Spislandbreeze, February 4, 2010

  • NAFC Marine Centre Releases Offshore Renewables Guidelines for Shetland Islands

    21 November 2012

    NAFC Marine Centre Marine Spatial Planning team has published a new report ‘Regional Locational Guidance for wave and tidal energy in the Shetland Islands’. It provides guidance to the marine renewables industry on the siting of wave and tidal devices. The report details the methodology used to integrate environmental, social and economic considerations into the […]

  • Rockhopper Provides Update on PL032, PL033 Licences, Offshore Falkland Islands

    15 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, provides the following update on the interpretation of the fast track seismic data over acreage on licences PL032 and PL033: • Initial interpretation of fast track new seismic data in PL032 and PL033 completed • Seismic shows Sea Lion Main Complex (“SLMC”) to extend […]

  • Plum Island and Salisbury Beach Renourishment Project Moves Forward (USA)

    7 July 2010

    The state and two local towns managed to come up with additional money needed to keep the Plum Island and Salisbury beach renourishment … By Victor Tine [mappress] Source: newburyportnews, July 8, 2010;

  • HMS Protector Surveys Darkdale Wreck Off St Helena Island

    19 October 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The ice patrol ship HMS Protector has returned, after seventy-one years, to the spot where Darkdale went down in James Bay to survey the wreck using her suite of the latest sonar technology. In 1941, St Helena served as an important staging post in the war against the U-boat in the South Atlantic. Darkdale arrived […]

  • MMT to carry out seabed surveys at Danish Energy Island site

    14 April 2021
    Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Denmark’s Energinet has selected MMT to carry out the initial surveys of the seabed where the Energy Island will be built in the North Sea. MMT will conduct pre-construction geophysical and seismic surveys in the 526 km2 area from May 2021 to September 2022. The work will be carried out in four phases, with Phase […]

  • UK: Highlands and Islands Outlines Investment Plan for Next Three Years

    11 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    A range of activities to generate economic and community development across the Highlands and Islands over the next three years is outlined in the latest Operating Plan published today [Wednesday 11 April, 2012] by the region’s development agency. Ambitious plans to roll out superfast broadband throughout the region, grow key economic sectors and address challenges […]

  • Indonesia: Jakarta’s Governor Inaugurates Seribu Island Underwater Electricity Cable

    22 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      The underwater electricity cable for six islands in Seribu Island, Harapan, Pramuka, Panggang, Kelapa, Kelapa Dua, and Karya, has been set by the Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo. At the inauguration ceremony in Panggang Island, Governor Fauzi said that he hopes the residents will be able to use the electricity in full. „This was my […]

  • Woman dies as megayacht sinks after collision in Long Island Sound

    21 September 2006

    A woman is dead and two men were rescued following an early morning collision, yesterday, between a 600 foot freighter and a 92 foot sailboat five miles north of Roanoke Point Shoals in Long Island Sound. Roanoke Point Shoals is located north of Riverhead, N.Y., along Long Island’s North Shore. A Coast Guard rescue boat […]

  • MIO Announces Purchase of Two Barges for Barrow Island LNG (Australia)

    27 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Miclyn Express Offshore Limited (“MIO”) announced the purchase of two 330 foot Barges. The Barges will be immediately deployed as part of the fleet executing the transportation project for the infrastructure development of the LNG export facilities at Barrow Island in North West Australia. It is envisaged that the new Barges will be fully utilised […]

  • NIWA Releases Mining Impact Report on Chatham Islands Rock Lobster

    24 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Concern has been raised over the possible impact of proposed Chatham Rock Phosphate’s mining activities for phosphorite nodules on the crest of the Chatham Rise on the larval, post-larval puerulus, and benthic phases of red rock lobsters, Jasus edwardsii. Due to the restriction of juvenile and adult phase red rock lobsters to depths less than […]

  • Photo of the Day: Block Island Turbine Towers Lined Up in Providence

    8 June 2016

    GE Renewable Energy has shared a photo showing offshore wind towers for the 30MW Block Island wind farm being arranged in a line in Providence after completing their journey from Europe to Rhode Island, US. The five-turbine offshore wind farm is being developed by Deepwater Wind some three miles off the coast of Block Island. Once commissioned in […]