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  • Aker Solutions to Provide Well Intervention Services to Statoil (Norway)

    8 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aker Solutions has been awarded two contracts from Island Offshore to provide well intervention services for Statoil in the North Sea. Scope of work is to deliver downhole well intervention services from Island Offshore’s two riserless well intervention vessels Island Frontier and Island Wellserver. These operations include running of mechanical wireline, electrical wireline and wireline […]

  • Picture of the Day: Harper’s Slough Project

    8 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Construction of islands in Harper’s Slough, located in Pool 9 of the Upper Mississippi River, is well underway. The work will span four construction seasons and is anticipated to be complete in 2018. A single construction contract was awarded in September 2014 and the remaining options exercised in October 2014 for a total construction cost […]

  • Russian-Flagged Trawler Kapitan Laskov Refloated

    5 June 2012

      The Russian-flagged trawler Kapitan Laskov that got stranded on Sunday evening off the Kunashir island, the southernmost island of the Kuril Islands, has been refloated last night, the Maritime Bulletin informed. Having pumped out circa 60 tons of fuel with the assistance of an oil barge, the vessel owned by OJS Kolkhoz Oktyabr, Kamchatka […]

  • Ferry relaunch delayed until 2010

    6 May 2009

    A co-operative aiming to restart the Swansea to Cork ferry says the service will not run until early next year. It had been hoped a new ship would start regular crossings between Wales and southern Ireland before the summer. But the board said longer than expected negotiations over a replacement ferry meant many travellers had […]

  • New Vision VLCC Caught in Recent Atlantic Storm – The Situation is under Control

    20 December 2007

    The tanker VLCC New Vision was caught in the recent severe North Atlantic storm offshore Ireland. Built in South Korea and delivered in April 1994, the New Vision is a double-hulled VLCC flying the French flag. Operated by V.Ships France, it is time chartered by Total from Norwegian shipowner Viken. The tanker was en route […]

  • Muckish move signalled by Serica

    23 July 2009

    Drilling of a new deepwater exploration prospect off the west coast of Ireland has been suggested by Serica Energy following the award of a new Frontier Exploration Licence in the region. Serica signalled its intention to target the Muckish prospect which is initially estimated to contain 675 Bcf of gas although it could also contain […]

  • Germany: E.ON Selects Helgoland as Offshore Operations Base

    27 April 2012

    E.ON has decided to base its operations and maintenance centre for its 288MW Amrumbank West offshore wind farm on the German island of Helgoland. E.ON’s Head of International Offshore business, Sven Utermöhlen, and Jörg Singer, the Mayor of Helgoland, met at the region’s economics ministry in Kiel to sign an agreement to use several plots […]

  • New Zealand: Divers Continue Assessment of Rena Wreck

    16 January 2012

    Divers today continued a full assessment of the state of the wreck of the Rena – its stability on the reef and general condition – as the first stage of working out what to do next. “It’s extremely challenging and dangerous work,” National On Scene Commander Rob Service said, “because of the surges of water […]

  • Four rescued from burning vessel

    12 July 2006

    Three adults and a child were today recovering after they were rescued from a blazing motorcruiser on Upper Lough Erne in Co Fermanagh. The Coastguard was alerted to the emergency by police at about 8.20pm yesterday and an inshore lifeboat was tasked to the scene, near Carrybridge. The passengers were rescued from the vessel and […]

  • VIDEO: Lobsterman, OWF Developer Working Together

    29 July 2015

    Thanks to ocean planning, America’s first offshore wind farm started construction few days ago. The location of the Block Island project was informed by Rhode Island’s Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP). The Ocean SAMP is a state-led ocean planning process that brought together the people of Rhode Island, from fishermen to sailors to conservationists […]

  • Green light for Spirit Energy’s Barents Sea well duo

    5 April 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Spirit Energy has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority to carry out exploration drilling of two wells in the Barents Sea with the Island Innovator drilling rig. 

  • GLDD Continues the Long Beach Project

    8 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has just awarded a $128.17 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, Co., LLC, Oak Brook, Illinois for the Long Beach Island shore protection project.  GLDD won the contract, with options, for beachfill and completion of initial construction, from Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, with […]

  • West Belle Works Underway

    5 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) said in their latest announcement that the work is currently underway on the West Belle containment dikes. This scheme is a part of the Terrebonne Basin Barrier Island and Beach Nourishment project which will construct approximately 1,100 acres of beach, dune, and marsh habitat on West Belle Headland, […]

  • Alstom, Deepwater Wind Sign Export Contract for Haliade™ 150-6 MW

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Alstom yesterday signed its first export contract with Deepwater Wind, the U.S. offshore wind developer. Under the contract, Alstom will provide five Haliade™ 150-6 MW wind turbines for the Block Island offshore wind farm. The contract also includes 15 years of operation and maintenance support for the Block Island offshore wind farm. Alstom underlines the […]

  • Royal HaskoningDHV, Deltares End Study of Mississippi Mainland Coast Restoration (USA)

    1 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Royal HaskoningDHV and knowledge institute Deltares have completed a study that will help to restore nature along the northern Gulf of Mexico and reduce effects of hurricanes on the Mississippi Mainland Coast. The study, with a contract value of 1.5 million US dollars, was carried out over a period of two years. The two Dutch […]

  • EPA Hosts Meeting on Dredged Material Supplemental EIS (USA)

    10 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    EPA has released a Notice of Intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate the potential designation of one or more dredged material disposal sites in Eastern Long Island Sound, and hosted a public meeting in Riverhead, N.Y. on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) is being developed with the input […]

  • ADB: Five More Wharf Upgrades Finished

    15 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Upgrades to Ringgi Wharf on Kolombangara Island, Keru Wharf on Keru Island, Ngasini Wharf on Vangunu Island and Susabona and Tatamba Wharves in Santa Isabel have been successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget in the second phase of the Domestic Maritime Support Project. The Asian Development Bank (ADB), along with the Governments of […]

  • Eni submits Beaufort Sea exploration plan. BOEM seeks public input

    13 June 2017

    Italian oil company Eni is looking to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea, offshore Alaska, and the U.S. offshore regulator has invited public comment on the company’s exploration plan. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said the plan proposed to drill into the federal submerged lands of the Beaufort Sea […]

  • Cruise ship numbers ‘disappointing’

    2 July 2009

    Londonderry may have led the way in attracting cruise ships to Northern Ireland, but Belfast has left the city trailing in its wake. Derry City Council has confirmed only seven cruise ships will visit the city this year, compared to 39 in Belfast. Clare Lundy, from Derry City Council said the city cannot accommodate the […]

  • BOEM approves Eni’s Beaufort Sea exploration plan

    14 July 2017

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has conditionally approved a Beaufort Sea exploration plan (EP) it received from the Italian oil major Eni. BOEM said on Wednesday that the approval came after a comprehensive review and consideration of comments received from the public, stakeholders, and Federal and state partner agencies and tribes. Eni […]

  • URI Gets $19 Million to Establish Coastal Ecology Research Consortium

    5 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Rhode Island a $19 million grant to establish a statewide research consortium to study the effects of climate variability on coastal ecosystems. The funding builds on more than $30 million of previous NSF funding through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which aims to […]

  • Irish Ports: Shipping Volume Down in Q2

    22 August 2012

    The volume of port and shipping traffic through the Republic of Ireland declined in the second quarter of 2012 according to the latest figures released today (22nd August 2012) by the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO). The latest analysis of the traffic data indicates that only one of the five principal freight segments had any […]

  • Boskalis Introduces Ocean Reef I on Punta Pacifica

    23 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Boskalis has unveiled a sculpture on the man-made island Punta Pacifica, constructed off the coast of Panama City. The sculpture called Ocean Reef I was presented by Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski to José Isabel Blandón (alcalde del Distrito de Panamá) in the presence of Alfredo Aleman (CEO Ocean Reef Marina). Boskalis constructed the first Punta […]

  • VolkerStevin Completes Mare Harbor Jetty Improvements

    9 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    A jetty in Mare Harbor, aimed to improve military capability in the Falkland Islands and improve life for personnel on the Islands, has been completed by VolkerStevin for the Defense Infrastructure Organization (DIO). Work to upgrade the jetty was officially opened recently by Geoff Robson, DIO’s Chief Operating Officer. This £19m contract is part of […]

  • Port Aransas Terminal Plan on Display, Dredging Included

    15 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Axis Midstream Holdings, LLC is proposing the construction of crude oil export facilities from Taft, San Patricio County, to Harbor Island with associated infrastructure and pipelines in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the proposed project is located in several towns, waterways, […]