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  • USA: Deepwater Wind Submits Final Application for Block Island Wind Farm

    3 October 2012
    Authorities & Government

    Deepwater Wind announced today that it has submitted its final state and federal permit applications for the Block Island Wind Farm. The voluminous collection of data represents the most comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of an offshore wind farm in the U.S. Deepwater Wind filed its permit applications with the U.S. Army Corps of […]

  • Government proposes installation of marine piles off Lamma Island coast (China)

    17 September 2010
    Research & Development

    The Government has proposed allowing Hongkong Electric to undertake site investigation and install eight marine piles within 2,030 square…     (news) [mappress] Source: news, September 17, 2010;

  • UK: HMS Queen Elizabeth’s Forward Island Ready for First Sea Voyage

    4 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    The BAE Systems built Forward Island from which HMS Queen Elizabeth will be commanded has been declared ready for her first sea voyage. The iconic Forward Island, known as Upper Block 07, is the hub of the ship as it contains the main bridge and approximately 100 vital mission systems compartments.  Paul Bowsher, QE Class […]

  • WaveRoller design ticks all the right boxes

    31 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Lloyd’s Register has approved the detailed design review of the WaveRoller wave energy device from the Finnish wave energy developer AW-Energy.

  • UK: SSE’s Commissioned Offshore Wind Farm Capacity Increases to 256MW

    27 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    SSE is hosting an event for analysts and investors today (Wednesday 27 June) and tomorrow in Glasgow and at Clyde wind farm to present its approach to managing its large capital projects.  SSE will set out the way it works to ensure that such projects are governed, developed, approved and executed in an effective manner.  SSE […]

  • EPA Green Lights Bluebelt Expansion (USA)

    31 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer yesterday announced that, after his push, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dropped their objection to the Staten Island Bluebelt expansion project to get underway. The Bluebelt expansion project recently received $7.5 million in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after another push by Senator Schumer. […]

  • Highlights of the Month: December 2014

    4 January 2015

    Siemens erects 6 MW offshore turbine on land Siemens has installed two of its SWT-6.0-154 offshore wind turbines at an onshore site in Wehlens near Wilhelmshaven. Belgium to Decide on Wind Energy Storing Island in 2015 Belgium will have their say in early 2015 about a project that would see excess energy stored and used […]

  • Island Drilling sheds more light on $330 million Equinor contract win

    1 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian offshore rig operator Island Drilling has expounded on the permanent plug and abandonment (PP&A) assignment on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) it recently won with compatriot state-owned giant Equinor.

  • German Ministers Visit Mittelplate

    13 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr Philipp Rösler, and the Minister for Economic Affairs of the German federal state of Lower Saxony, Jörg Bode, on Friday, August 10, visited the Mittelplate Drilling and Production Island in the Wadden Sea tidelands of Schleswig-Holstein. Mittelplate is Germany’s only offshore oil-production facility and it is operated by […]

  • Germany: RWE Working to Further Optimise Mittelplate Production

    1 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The reorganisation of the supply infrastructure and logistics operations for the Mittelplate Drilling and Production Island will further optimise oil production from Germany’s biggest oil field, Mittelplate. The Cuxhaven-based company EnTec has been awarded the contract for the construction and operation of a new land base. A further agreement was signed with the Dutch company […]

  • Uncertainty to Harm Scottish Offshore Wind & Island Renewables Projects, Ewing Says

    22 July 2015

    A further delay in providing much-needed clarity on support for renewables could “cause damage to Scotland’s offshore wind and islands renewable energy projects” according to Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has postponed announcements on Contracts for Difference until at least the autumn. DECC had previously committed to […]

  • Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Secures Additional Well Slot on Ocean Guardian Rig

    26 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rockhopper Exploration plc, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that it has entered into a further assignment agreement to secure an additional well slot on the Ocean Guardian drilling rig(photo). Rockhopper now intends to utilise four well slots in succession. Rockhopper was established in February 2004 with a strategy to invest […]

  • China: CIC Lixin Shipyard Completes Repair Works of MV Castle Island

    25 June 2012

      In early June, 2012, CIC Lixin Shipyard has successfully accomplished the repair work of M.V. “Castle Island” on schedule. The vessel is owned by a Hong Kong shipping company and is a 29,000 DWT ocean-going bulk carrier. Her initial main work scope was the treatment of hull & cargo holds treatment and the boiler […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Spuds Anne Marie Exploration Well Offshore Faroe Islands

    26 July 2010

    Faroe Petroleum plc, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and undeveloped field opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that drilling operations have commenced on the Anne Marie prospect (Faroe Petroleum 12.5%), located offshore, the Faroe Islands. The commitment well (6004/8a‐1) is located in 1,106m of […]

  • Falkland Islands: FOGL to Use Leiv Eiriksson Rig for its Drilling Programme

    6 May 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

      FOGL notes the announcement today by Borders & Southern Petroleum plc (“Borders & Southern”) that it has signed a substitution agreement with Ocean Rig under which the Eirik Raude, the rig specified in the original agreement, has been replaced with the Leiv Eiriksson. The heads of agreement between FOGL and Borders & Southern which […]

  • Island Performer Kicks Off Revolutionary Coiled Tubing Drilling Off Norway

    15 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    At the beginning of the year Island Offshore with their partner Baker Hughes entered a back-to-back agreement with VTT Maritime who had been awarded a contract for ground core sampling above, in what is to be, the world’s longest (25,5 km) and deepest (385m) subsea road tunnel, named Rogfast. Together with the end client Statens […]

  • Elba Island LNG gets Train 9 feed gas introduction permit

    15 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    Kinder Morgan-led Elba Island liquefaction project near Savannah, Georgia, has been granted a permit to introduce feed gas to the ninth production unit.

  • South Africa: Construction on Johannesburg Multimodal Inland Port To Begin Next Year

    28 May 2010

    Anew multimodal inland port and logis- tics gateway, aimed at servicing Gauteng and the rest of Southern Africa, is to be developed near … [mappress] Source: engineeringnews, May 28, 2010;

  • USA: Gulf Island Fabrication CEO Supports Houma Navigation Canal Dredging

    21 July 2011

    Business is booming, but without a clearer path for post-oil-spill drilling and deeper dredging in the Houma Navigation Canal, future growth… More info: dailycomet By Nikki Buskey [mappress] Source: dailycomet, July 21, 2011;

  • USA: Leni Gas & Oil Provides Update on Eugene Island Field Project

    7 February 2012

    Leni Gas & Oil plc today announces a short delay to the start of drilling operations at the Eugene Island Field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The current operator of the Ocean Columbia jack-up rig at Eugene Island-51 has had difficulty in withdrawing the legs from the seafloor. Silt jetting and dredging operations are […]

  • USA: GLDD Bags USD 45 Million Scofield Island Reclamation Project

    27 March 2012

      Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services, announced the award of a $46.5 million contract to restore and reinforce the existing shoreline of Scofield Island, located along the barrier shoreline in Plaquemines Parish, […]

  • Island Drilling rig begins multi-well plug and abandonment work in Africa

    5 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Island Drilling Company has made a start on its plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign off the coast of Mauritania, Africa, which is being carried out with its 2012-built semi-submersible rig.

  • Talisman Gets Consent to Use Island Constructor for Plugging Wells on Gyda Field

    7 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The PSA has given Talisman Energy Norge AS consent to use Island Constructor on the Gyda field for plugging wells 2/1-9 A and 2/1-11. The operation is planned to start in February 2014 with a duration of 15 days. Island Constructor is a facility designed for well intervention which is operated by Island Offshore Management […]

  • HMAS Yarra Divers Recover HMAS Bundaberg’s Anchor near Ashmore Island

    24 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Personnel in the coastal mine hunter HMAS Yarra have used their diving expertise to recover an anchor and shackles weighing one tonne from the seabed near Ashmore Island. The anchor, belonging to Armidale class patrol boat HMAS Bundaberg, was cut lose when it firmly wedged beneath a large boulder and the sea floor during a […]

  • UK: Orkney Islands Council Urges Talks About Cable Upgrade Delay

    26 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Orkney Islands Council is calling for urgent talks with ministers after the announcement about the delay of cable upgrade from Orkney to Caithness until 2018, Herald Scotland reports. According to SSE, the cable linking wave, wind and tidal developments to the mainland will be completed in 2018 at the earliest. Regarding this issue, Councillor Steven […]