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  • Virus nightmare on luxury ship

    2 June 2006

    A Northern Ireland family have spoken of their “nightmare” aboard a luxury cruise ship hit by a vomiting virus. The Sea Princess will return to Southampton on Friday and miss out the intended destination of Lisbon, to allow extra time to disinfect the ship. More than 2,000 passengers aboard the ship have been forced to […]

  • Major Restoration Project Complete in Louisiana

    4 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    The $18.7 million Queen Bess Island restoration project is now officially complete – making the Brown Pelican habitat ready for the 2020 nesting season. Standing on the shore of a remote island in Louisiana’s Barataria Basin, Gov. John Bel Edwards yesterday declared the newly-restored island officially reopened for nesting. “Before we started this restoration last […]

  • Oceanteam step into developing, installing and owning offshore power grids

    6 December 2007

    Oceanteam ASA announced today that it has merged its Hydragrid business with IMERA Power. At the same time IMERA Power announced today that it has been awarded a license by UK Regulator OFGEM to build two underwater interconnectors between the Republic of Ireland and Wales, UK. The commercial terms between the parties are confidential.

  • Columbia River Final EA Released

    3 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released the final environmental assessment (EA) for continued maintenance of the Columbia River federal navigation channel. The maintenance includes placement of dredged material on the eastern shoreline of Rice Island and re-handling material at an in-water site near Howard Island. USACE will place material on the eastern end […]

  • Ampelmann to provide winterized gangways for Sakhalin-2

    18 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Dutch offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann has signed an agreement with the Sakhalin Energy consortium to provide its offshore access solutions for the Sakhalin-2 field. Under the agreement, Ampelmann will deliver the winterized version of the motion compensated gangway system which will, according to Ampelmann, allow the transfer of work crew at temperatures of up to -28 degrees. […]

  • Wintershall gets nod for well intervention work on Vega

    7 April 2016

    German crude oil and natural gas producer, Wintershall, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use two Island Offshore’s vessels on the Vega field, in the North Sea.  Island Offshore’s two well intervention vessels, Island Wellserver and Island Frontier, will be used for intervention work on the wells in the Vega field that lies north of […]

  • USA: Atlantic Coast DEA Available for Review, Corps Says

    4 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, announced the availability of the Draft Hurricane Sandy Limited Re-evaluation Report – Atlantic Coast of Long Island, Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet, Long Beach Island, New York, Storm Damage Reduction Project (DHSLRR). The Draft Environmental Assessment Atlantic Coast of Long Island, Jones Inlet to East […]

  • Weeks Marine Bags 112.8 Million MsCIP Deal

    8 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Weeks Marine Inc., headquartered in Cranford, NJ, has won an $112.8 million contract for the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP), comprehensive barrier island restoration plan and Ship Island Project – Phase Two. Bids for this project were solicited via the Internet with three received, reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Work will be performed in Ship Island, […]

  • Durrat, $150m dredging contract

    6 July 2005

    Durrat Al Bahrain has signed a $150m agreement with Durrat Al Bahrain and Great Lakes-Nass for reclamation, dredging and shore protection for the second and final phase of the project, reported Gulf Daily News. The work is expected to be finished within two years. Durrat Al Bahrain is co-owned by Kuwait Finance House and the […]

  • RV Celtic Explorer in First Trans-Atlantic Mapping Survey

    17 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The first trans-Atlantic mapping survey has been announced and it’s to take place under the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance. The announcement was made by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney T.D., Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in […]

  • Malaysian Sand Issues

    5 August 2010

    The causeway linking Singapore to the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula is normally clogged with cars and trucks making the short international journey, but things got particularly bad on Feb. 1, when traffic came to a grinding halt. Thirty-seven trucks were abandoned where they stood on the Malaysian side, just yards away from a […]

  • Congressman Zeldin, USACE Officials Tour Smith Point

    26 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    New York’s Congressman Lee Zeldin today joined Commanding General of the USACE Headquarters, Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, and New York District’s USACE Commander, Colonel Thomas Asbery, as they surveyed Smith Point County Park, following the emergency dredge of Moriches Inlet and the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway. An upcoming major milestone will be LTG Semonite’s final approval […]

  • Ocean Energy ready for 500kW wave device build-out

    18 October 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Irish wave energy developer Ocean Energy plans to begin with the manufacturing of its up-scaled wave energy device this month in the United States.

  • Multi-Purpose Tug Husky Completes Work at Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm

    7 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The twin-screw tug Husky, owned by Island Shipping is en route from Norfolk to her home port of Wicklow following over 300 days of successful charter on Sheringham Shoal Offshore Windfarm. The multi-purpose, shallow draft tug has provided logistical support to and from the offshore windfarm. The other two Island Shipping’s vessels, Island Tiger and […]

  • Picture of the Day: GLDD Beachfill Project

    3 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    The USACE’s Philadelphia District and its contractor Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company are pumping approximately 8 million cubic yards of sand onto Long Beach Island, N.J. Work is designed to complete the dune and berm system and reduce future storm damages. GLDD mobilized two dredges, the Padre Island and the Dodge Island, for the beachfill operations. The […]

  • NextDecade Looks to Build LNG Terminal at Port of Cork

    20 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    LNG development company NextDecade has signed an agreement to investigate the development of a new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and LNG import terminal at Ireland’s Port of Cork. Under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the potential development at the Port of Cork would receive LNG from NextDecade’s planned Rio Grande […]

  • Environment Agency to Remove Gravel and Silt from Aire and Worth

    19 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Environment Agency this week started an £800,000 program of work on the rivers Aire and Worth to remove gravel and silt deposited by the winter floods. The deposits, known as shoals, built up in the rivers during the flooding as large volumes of water picked up debris and distributed it along the river system. […]

  • Greenlink Interconnector Looks for Route Survey Provider

    2 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Greenlink Project, a HVDC interconnector between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, has invited bidders for route investigation survey services. Earlier this year, Element Power submitted an application to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government for a foreshore licence to carry out the first marine surveys for the Greenlink interconnector. The call […]

  • Sound Oil withdraws takover offer for Antrim

    13 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Sound Oil has retracted its proposed takeover offer for Antrim Energy. The company in November announced its intention to launch a public offer for 100% of the share capital of the Antrim Energy, a Canadian-based international oil and gas exploration and production company with assets offshore in the UK North Sea and Ireland. Explaining the reason behind […]

  • MaREI seeks tidal energy research fellow

    24 May 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Human Capital, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    SFI MaREI Centre has invited applications for a full-time fixed term position as research fellow in tidal energy as part of the TIDAL-GES project at NUI Galway in Ireland.

  • Green Rebel awarded floating LiDAR contract for Irish wind and wave energy test site

    19 August 2024
    Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Ireland-based survey provider Green Rebel has secured a contract for floating LiDAR services for the Atlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS), located west of Belmullet in County Mayo. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) issued a call for tenders for a floating LiDAR and associated provision of data in February 2024, saying the contract will […]

  • Galway Bay Test Site Opens Door to Floaters

    5 April 2016
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Ireland’s Marine Institute has applied for a foreshore lease for the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test site which would potentially allow the installation of floating wind turbines at the site. The Marine Institute denied seeking permission from the country’s Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to install three turbines at Galway Bay, as reported by […]

  • BC Ferries’ 4th electric-hybrid ferry hits the water

    18 December 2020
    Environment, Innovation, Transition, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania has launched the fourth Island Class battery-powered ferry for the Canadian ferry operator BC Ferries. Work will continue on the new ship until scheduled sea trials in April. Following successful sea trials, the vessel will make its way to Point Hope Maritime in Victoria in fall 2021 for final preparations. […]

  • WATCH: Diamond Offshore’s giant semi-sub rig getting ready for its North Sea job

    24 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Diamond Offshore’s Ocean GreatWhite rig is in the process of wrapping up its preparations for its upcoming assignment in the North Sea.

  • RH Petrogas: Oil Shows at Koi-2 Well in Indonesia

    2 January 2014

    Singapore’s RH Petrogas Limited has provided an update on the drilling of the Koi-2 appraisal well (“Koi-2”) in the Salawati Kepala Burung PSC (“Island PSC”), Indonesia. Located in shallow water depth of 32 meters, the well successfully reached its total vertical depth of 1,428 meters on 30 December 2013. During drilling of the Kais limestone, […]