10000 results found for 'iceland'

10000 results found for 'iceland'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Lundin Gets Consent to Use Island Innovator for Drilling on Gohta Field

    8 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Lundin Norway AS has received the consent of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the Island Innovator mobile drilling facility for drilling and production testing of wildcat well 7120/1-4 S in production licence 492 on the Gohta field. The Gohta field is in the Barents Sea, 35 km north-west of the Snøhvit field. […]

  • EPA Decision on Long Island Sound Disposal Site Sparks Unrest

    7 December 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday published its final rule establishing the Eastern Long Island Sound Dredging Disposal Site (ELDS) in the Federal Register. With the publication of this rule, EPA is designating ELDS, located offshore from New London, Connecticut, for the disposal of dredged material from harbors and navigation channels in eastern Long Island Sound […]

  • USACE: Contract for the Plum Island replenishment project could be awarded this week

    7 December 2009
    Project & Tenders

    PLUM ISLAND — A contract for the Plum Island-Salisbury beach replenishment project could be awarded next week, if the low bidder for the job satisfies questions from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… Source: Newbury Port News, December 5, 2009

  • USA: Lawmakers Announce USD 3.5 Million for Plum Island Project

    9 February 2012

    Congressman John Tierney announced that $3.5 million in federal funds will be used to make emergency repairs to the south jetty along Plum Island. The funds resulted from the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, which Congressman Tierney supported and which became law in December. “With this $3.5 million in federal funds, the Army Corps of Engineers […]

  • USA: Officials Back Up Long Island Sound Restoration Plan

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Steve Israel (NY-3) led a group of 20 representatives in requesting $10 million for protection and restoration efforts in the Long Island Sound. The request was sent to the top members of the subcommittee responsible for funding the Interior Department. “With federal leadership and investment, a strong partnership has been […]

  • Cayman Islands Government to Sign MoU with Chinese Company on Dredging Project

    12 May 2011

    The Cayman Islands government is set to sign a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese company that will dredge a channel in the North So… (thetriton) [mappress] Source: thetriton, May 12, 2011;

  • 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 […]