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  • Hulhumale Phase II Starts in Late December

    1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The second phase of the Hulhumalé Dredging & Reclamation project in the Maldives is about to begin in the next few weeks. The $50 million project was awarded to Dredging International NV, Belgium earlier this year.  Arrival of Dredging International’s vessel that will take part in the project has been set for late December. Preparations for the […]

  • UK government sets up £11M fund to boost green innovation

    5 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The UK government has launched a £11 million fund for energy entrepreneurs in an effort to drive forward the adoption of new clean technologies across all sectors of UK industry.

  • Severe Cyclone Hits Western Australia. Operators Evacuate Workers

    30 December 2013

    Offshore operators in Western Australia are bracing themselves for the Tropical Cyclone Christine. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a category three cyclone warning for coastal areas from Wallal to Onslow, including Port Hedland, Karratha and Onslow, and extending inland to Paraburdoo, Tom Price, Newman, Jigalong and Three Rivers.   According to Bloomberg, Woodside, […]

  • Appeals Court Reaches Decision on Lough Neagh Sand Dredging

    3 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Friends of the Earth has welcomed last week’s Northern Ireland Court of Appeal decision that the government acted unlawfully by not stopping the dredging at Lough Neagh, one of Europe’s most important wetlands. The environmental campaign group brought the legal challenge over the Northern Ireland government’s failure to stop sand extraction from Lough Neagh, which […]

  • Probe into incident at Equinor’s LNG hub sheds light on root cause

    18 November 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    While pinpointing the primary source, Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has shared its findings regarding a recent investigation into an incident at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Melkøya island in Northern Norway.

  • VATTS to pair tidal turbines with battery storage in Strangford Lough demo

    23 March 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    A new project, dubbed VATTS, has been launched with the aim to demonstrate vertical axis tidal turbines coupled with battery storage technology in a demonstration planned for Strangford Lough later this year.

  • Robotic arm comes within ocean energy sector’s reach

    28 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    A new European project, named Kraken, has officially started aiming to develop a viable robotic arm to be used with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for the inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) of ocean energy devices.

  • Ocean Oasis to test floating wave-powered desalination plant off Canary Islands

    17 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Norwegian company Ocean Oasis has signed an agreement with the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) to test its wave energy-powered desalination plant.

  • Minesto shifts tidal energy focus to Faroe Islands to mitigate supply chain delays

    14 March 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    Swedish company Minesto has decided to focus this year’s operations with its Dragon Class tidal energy converters at the established and grid-connected site in Vestmannasund in Faroe Islands.

  • Danes talk 62 MW offshore wind turbines for North Sea Energy Island

    23 August 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Technology

    While we are keeping a close eye on the progress of the 15 MW and 16 MW wind turbines that are now in the prototype stage, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is considering the possibility that four times more powerful models could be available during the construction of offshore wind farms around the country’s energy island in the North Sea.

  • PSA, ONE set up eco-friendly barge service at Jurong Island Terminal

    3 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Singapore-based port group PSA Corporation (PSA) and compatriot container shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) launched environmentally friendly barge sailing from PSA Singapore to PSA Jurong Island Terminal on 24 November 2021.

  • USS Makin Island Wasp-Class Amphibious Assault Ship Passes Maintenance Inspection

    5 August 2011

    USS Makin Island’s (LHD 8) last week successfully passed Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD)  its ‘first-ever’ Aviation Maintenance Inspection . The three-day inspection by the Naval Air Forces Aviation Maintenance Management Team included a thorough examination of the ship’s maintenance and training programs, support equipment, material condition and safety procedures. According to Michael Gordon, AIMD’s Leading […]

  • USA: Gulf Island Fabrication to Build 335 Class Offshore Liftboat for Montco Offshore

    19 September 2012

    Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. announced on September 18th 2012, that its subsidiary, Gulf Island Marine Fabricators, L.L.C., signed a contract for the fabrication of a 335 Class, 185 feet long by 135 feet wide by 15 feet deep, offshore liftboat for Montco Offshore, Inc., a marine operator based in Galliano, LA. When completed, this will be […]

  • UK: First Gas Powered Rolls-Royce Offshore Vessel Island Crusader Delivered

    21 June 2012

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, announced today that Island Offshore has taken delivery of Island Crusader, the first gas powered Rolls-Royce offshore vessel. This new and advanced UT 776 CDG platform supply vessel, is the first of two ordered by Island Offshore. Managing Director of Island Offshore, Håvard Ulstein, said: “A very important area […]

  • Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Exploration plc Operational Update – Sea Lion 14/10

    13 October 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company is providing an update on a number of operational and strategic developments since its AGM on 30th September 2010. Exploration The recent successful flow test at Sea Lion has validated the potential for commercial oil in the North Falkland basin and has […]

  • Falkland Islands: Desire Petroleum to Conduct Seizmic Survey Using Polarcus Nadia Vessel

    27 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Desire Petroleum plc , the oil and gas company wholly focused on the North Falkland Basin, announces the signing of a contract for marine seismic acquisition services with Polarcus Limited for the use of the seismic vessel MV Polarcus Nadia. Under the terms of the contract Desire will acquire a 3D survey over (a) the […]

  • Lundin drills duster in North Sea. Final Lundin gig for Island Innovator rig

    7 March 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Lundin Petroleum is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 16/4-10, on the Fosen prospect, offshore Norway. The well is dry. The company started drilling the exploration well in January 2016. The well 16/4-10 was drilled by the Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig. According to Lundin, this was the final well in Lundin […]

  • Norway: Island Valiant Continues its Works for AGR Subsea at Ormen Lange Field

    13 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      The M/V Island Valiant is still working for AGR Subsea AS excavating along piperoutes on the Northern Extension of the Ormen Lange. The contract was awarded in March 2011 with startup in May, and was initially planned to last for 30 days. The vessel and trenching spread has flushed away approximately 14.500 m3 of […]

  • Norway: Statoil Receives Consent to Use Island Constructor in North Sea and Norwegian Sea

    3 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      Statoil has received consent to use the Island Constructor mobile facility in the northern part of the North Sea and in the Norwegian Sea. The consent relates to implementation of light well intervention on Oseberg, Gullfaks, Vigdis, Tordis and Kristin. The planned start-up of the intervention work is in November 2011, and the estimated […]

  • DEME and MEDCO to Build Two Artificial Energy Islands for SARB Oil Field in UAE

    7 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Dredging International and MEDCO, have been awarded a contract for mixed dredging and civil engineering works to construct two artificial energy islands, including their service harbours, aimed to provide Abu Dhabi with energy based on facilities for oil drilling, etc. from the previously untapped offshore Satah al-Razboot (SARB) field. Dredging International is part of […]

  • Shell, Kinder Morgan Join Forces to Develop Elba Island Liquefaction Plant (USA)

    28 January 2013

    Shell US Gas & Power, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, and Southern Liquefaction Company, a Kinder Morgan company and unit of El Paso Pipeline Partners, announced their intent to form a limited liability company to develop a natural gas liquefaction plant in two phases at Southern LNG Company, existing Elba Island LNG Terminal, near […]

  • Cook Island’s Approach to Deep Seabed Mining Could Become Model (New Zealand)

    1 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      Cook Island’s approach to deep sea mining should be adopted by other Pacific nations, says a Cook Islands environmental lawyer and …   (radioaustralia) [mappress] Source: Radio Australia , December 01, 2011;

  • Princeton Sovereign Maritime Completes LNG Bunkering Study in U.S. Coastal and Inland Waterways

    31 December 2012

    A viability study undertaken by Princeton Sovereign Maritime LLC, on the LNG as bunker fuel in U.S coastal and inland waterways marine transport, validates the superior cost advantage of LNG used as marine fuel when compared to ultra low sulphur distillates, which recently mandated by U.S. EPA to be used in all marine assets operating […]

  • Three Rescued After Fishing Boat Hits Wind Turbine off Walney Island

    26 May 2016
    Authorities & Government

    Three fishermen were rescued after their 10.5-metre catamaran collided with an offshore wind turbine and started taking on water some 2.5 miles west of Walney Island, Cumbria, UK, in the early morning hours of Thursday, 26 May, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reports. RNLI did not specify the name of the wind farm at which […]

  • Falkland Islands: Sea Lion Oil Discovery Could Be Commercially Viable, Rockhopper Says

    20 September 2010
    Project & Tenders

    Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to report the successful test of well 14/10-2: “Sea Lion 1.” Sea Lion 1 was drilled in a water depth of 451m during April and May 2010 and suspended for future testing, having encountered a gross oil column of 217m […]