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  • 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 […]

  • BOEM gives more time for public input on Hilcorp’s Liberty project

    17 November 2017
    Project & Tenders

    BOEM has extended the period for accepting public comment on Hilcorp’s Liberty project environmental impact statement (EIS) draft.

  • Charter Contract for MSV Ocean Intervention III Extended

    9 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore announced that Oceaneering International GmbH has elected to extend the charter period on Ocean Intervention III with one year. There are options for further yearly extensions included in the contract Ocean Intervention III is performing subsea IMR work in Angola, and has been in service for Oceaneering since 2007. “Island Offshore is grateful […]

  • 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, […]

  • Orkney Opens New Pier to Back Marine Renewables Sector

    17 June 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A new pier at Copland’s Dock in Stromness, ensuring that Orkney continues to play a central role in the growing marine renewables sector, has been officially opened by First Minister Alex Salmond. Following an increase in marine traffic at Stromness, Orkney Islands Council took the decision to increase the harbour’s capacity. With £2.5 million Scottish […]

  • VIDEO: RWE Dea Invites Visitors to Learn More About Mittelplate (Germany)

    22 March 2013

    Germany’s oil company RWE Dea today announced that an info-point has been opened in the Deichpassage in Friedrichskoog-Spitze, to provide more information on the Mittelplate drilling and production island to visitors. Touch-screens, interactive games and multimedia partitions explain how oil is produced in the Wadden Sea tidelands. By means of an interactive knowledge quiz, visitors can find […]

  • Wave Swell Energy Gears for Mid-2020 WEC Launch

    17 March 2020
    Research & Development, Technology

    Australian company Wave Swell Energy (WSE) has said it is still on schedule to install a pilot-scale wave energy converter off the coast of King Island, Tasmania by the middle of 2020. According to the company, the main oscillating water column and the turbine for the King Island wave energy project, are now more than […]

  • DoCoMo Pacific Hires NEC to Build ATISA Subsea Cable

    10 March 2016
    Project & Tenders

    DoCoMo Pacific and NEC Corporation have signed a contract to build ATISA, an optical submarine cable system that will connect Guam with the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. ATISA submarine cable system, measuring approximately 280 kilometers in length, will connect the islands of Guam, Saipan, Rota and Tinian. Following the anticipated completion in early-2017, ATISA is […]

  • Alewijnse do Brasil Wins Order for Two Pusher Vessels

    22 January 2013

    Alewijnse do Brasil is to play a significant role in the building of two new 2400hp pusher vessels at Estaleiro Amazonia (EASA). This order reinforces the position of leading system integrator Alewijnse in the rapidly growing market for inland shipping in Brazil. The project involves the building of two new 2400hp pushers each with a […]

  • Australia: Environment Minister Approves Arrow LNG Project

    10 December 2013

    Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has given approval for Shell’s Arrow liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Curtis Island off Gladstone, in central Queensland. The approval also includes the Arrow gas transmission pipeline to Curtis Island and the dredging program for the LNG project. The proposed Arrow LNG plant on Curtis Island will be supplied […]

  • Subsea Cables Between Taiwan’s Kinmen and China’s Xiamen to Enter Service by Year’s End

    25 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. announces that the two undersea cables between Taiwan’s Kinmen Island and China’s Xiamen City are expected to enter service by the end of this year, reports Taiwan News. Chunghwa Telecom stated that the fibre cables have been built on local exchange facilities from their two locations on the northwestern coast of […]

  • Vice President Inaugurates Gulhi Harbour Reconstruction Project (Maldives)

    19 March 2014

    Vice President of the Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed this week inaugurated the harbor reconstruction project of Gulhi Island of Male’ Atoll. Speaking at the ceremony, the Vice President said that the initiation of the island’s harbor project would in turn lead to a better life for the people. The Vice President also underlined the future projects […]

  • UK says Argentine plan to seize Falklands oil driller assets ‘unlawful’

    29 June 2015

    Britain said on Monday any attempt by Argentina to seize the assets of oil drillers operating in the disputed Falkand Islands would be unlawful after Buenos Aires said it would pursue a local judge’s order against six firms.

  • USA: Bishop, Schumer Announce New Coastal Protection Plan

    30 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced a new plan that will allow the construction of storm protection dunes at Smith Point County Park and Robert Moses State Park to begin in early 2014, as originally scheduled. Schumer and Bishop brokered a deal between federal and state agencies that will break the […]

  • MUSICA Kicks Off with First Project Meeting in Greece

    27 January 2020
    Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    The EU-funded project “Multiple Use of Space for Island Clean Autonomy” (MUSICA) has recently held its kick-off meeting in Chios, Greece. The Valetta Declaration launched the Clean Energy for EU islands initiative aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition for small islands. It calls for action to help islands reduce their dependency on energy imports […]

  • Cruise ships could boost visitors

    28 May 2007

    Expanding the cruise ship industry in Guernsey could be a way of attracting more visitors to the island, the island’s tourism boss has said.

  • TenneT Presents ‘Hub and Spoke’ Offshore Wind Concept (VIDEO)

    10 June 2016
    Research & Development

    TenneT has presented a ‘hub and spoke’ concept to set up a large European offshore electricity system that incorporates building of an island in the middle of the North Sea. Numerous wind farms can be connected to the artificial island – a total capacity of over 30 GW can be connected on an island of roughly 6 km² – from […]

  • BOEM Seeks Public Input on Eni’s Beaufort Sea Exploration Plan

    13 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) informed that Eni US Operating Co. Inc. has met the regulatory requirements for its Beaufort Sea exploration plan (EP) to be “deemed submitted,” and invites public comment on the plan. Eni US is a subsidiary of Italian oil and gas company Eni S.p.A. In its plan, Eni proposes to drill […]

  • BC Ferries’ 3rd hybrid-electric ferry starts voyage to B.C.

    20 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    BC Ferries’ third Island-class hybrid-electric ferry is now on its way to British Columbia after it departed Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania on 19 May.

  • Cairn granted drilling permit for North Sea well

    16 March 2020
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.

  • New Technology Multiplies Marine Energy Potential (Sweden)

    2 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    New technology for harvesting energy from low velocity ocean and tidal currents multiplies the potential for marine energy. Written by Anders Jansson, CEO, Minesto Marine energy – for instance energy from tidal and ocean currents – is the ‘best of the best’ amongst green energy sources: it has the greatest potential (in theory, the planet’s […]

  • Ejnan takes RasGas fleet to 11

    17 January 2007

    RasGas recently named its 11th LNG vessel Ejnan at a shipyard in South Korea’s Goje Island. Ejnan, named after an island off Qatar’s west coast, has an cargo capacity of 145,000cu m. It was built by Samsung Hyundai Industries (SHI) at the Goje Island shipyard. Besides being the 11th LNG vessel to enter into long […]

  • VIDEO: Foundation Construction for the First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

    19 June 2015

    Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in the United States, has published another video of the progress that has been made to install the first wind turbines at the Block Island wind farm site.  The video shows work on the steel foundations that will be installed at the site. Steel jacket structures for […]

  • Great News for Bahman Port Development (Iran)

    11 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Managing Director of Gheshm Free Zone said that the Gheshm Island has been officially recognized by the Ministry of Oil as the Island of oil, energy and petrochemical products. Pointing out to the investment worth $250 million by Petropars Company for development of Bahman Port in the Gheshm Free Zone revealed that development of this […]

  • USACE PHOTO: TSHD Magdalen Busy at Brant Beach

    10 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s Philadelphia District yesterday began beachfill operations at Brant Beach on Long Beach Island, NJ. USACE has just released this amazing photo, showing the Weeks Marine’s twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Magdalen in the distance, during the sand pumping operations. The dune and berm system that is being repaired is designed to […]