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  • GKinetic eyes bigger tidal device

    27 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    GKinetic Energy is looking for partners to discuss collaborative opportunities to build and demonstrate a 250kW tidal energy device.

  • Galway Confirmed As Irish Stopover

    17 May 2007

    The west coast Irish port of Galway will be the stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race following the Irish Government’s announcement this week that it had agreed to make funding available to help bring the race to Ireland for the first time. Race organisers welcomed the Irish commitment of up to eight million Euros […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Newt Marine Wins Lansing Contract

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, recently awarded a nearly $12 million contract to Newt Marine Services of Dubuque, Iowa, to restore habitat within the Mississippi River Pool 9. The Harpers Slough Islands habitat restoration project, located 8 miles south of Lansing, Iowa, is an effort to restore habitat by protecting eroded […]

  • 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. […]

  • Employment Rise of 10% in Irish International Shipping Service Sector

    6 May 2011

    There was a 10% growth in employment in the International Shipping Services sector in Ireland last year according to the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO). In a recent analysis of the sector the information is based from companies that have elected to join the dedicated Irish Tonnage Tax (ITT) scheme, a measure introduced in the […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • USACE: Preserving Habitat for Wildlife

    16 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District completed construction of a new 8-acre bird island in March, located at the Savannah Harbor Dredged Material Containment Area (DMCA) 12A. It’s one of seven areas that stores sediment dredged from the Savannah River federal shipping channel. The bird island was part of a $5.3 million dike […]

  • 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 […]

  • DPWH and Watermaster: Fighting Floods in the Philippines

    24 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Aquamec Ltd., a Finland based developer and manufacturer of the Watermaster multipurpose machines, has released a very interesting paper on flood fighting activities in the Philippines. The paper focuses on flood prevention efforts of the Philippines’ Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). DPWH – responsible for providing and managing quality infrastructure facilities and services for […]

  • 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 […]

  • Caillou Lake Headlands Restoration Project Nears End

    23 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Another barrier island restoration project is nearing completion on Whiskey Island off the coast of Louisiana, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This time it is the Caillou Lake Headlands Restoration Project which uses sediment from the Ship Shoal, an offshore sand source that EPA proposed for use in a 2002. The Caillou Lake […]

  • Sabella D10 Feeding Power to French Grid

    11 November 2015
    Storage, Technology

    Sabella’s D10 tidal turbine, deployed in June 2015 in the Passage du Fromveur, has started delivering its first kilowatt hours following the connection to the electricity grid at Ouessant Island on 5 November. Since its connection to the island in late September, a 2km long submarine cable has been transmitting the electricity from the tidal turbine to the coast. The power was then […]

  • Atlantic Pioneer Trialled in High Winds (Gallery)

    31 March 2016

    Atlantic Pioneer, the first US-built offshore wind service vessel, will be delivered next week, after recently undergoing sea trials in gale force winds, according to Rhode Island Fast Ferry. The 21-meter crew transfer vessel was built by the Rhode Island-based Blount Boats to service a 20-year crew transfer contract with Deepwater Wind for its 30MW Block Island offshore […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]