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  • Cairn Breaks Off with Blackford Dolphin, 3D Survey to Go Ahead

    9 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Providence Resources has provided an operational update on activities in FEL 2/04, FEL 4/08 and FEL 1/14, which are all located within Quadrant 35 in the northern Porcupine Basin. Capricorn Ireland Limited (38%, Operator (wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy PLC)) operates these licences on behalf of its partners, Providence Resources (32%), Chrysaor E&P Ireland (26%) […]

  • Scottish, NI Ministers Commit to Wave and Tidal Development

    27 February 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    At the biggest gathering of its kind in the world, RenewableUK’s wave and tidal energy conference, Ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have re-affirmed their commitment to developing the UK’s massive marine energy resources to their full potential – and there’s been a major announcement on new funding. The Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing told […]

  • Cairn gains rig safety nod ahead of North Sea well

    24 February 2020
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given its consent to Capricorn for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using the Island Innovator drilling rig. 

  • Fox Waterway Agency Proposes Sediment Storage Construction (USA)

    7 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Fox Waterway Agency has proposed constructing a 29-acre in-lake sediment storage and dewatering facility (SDF) using beneficially reused dredged sediment. The Fox Waterway Agency will improve navigation by hydraulically and mechanically dredging sediment from the Chain O’Lakes and Fox River and transporting the material via pumping or barge to the newly constructed island. The […]

  • Classic breeze for start – HSH Nordbank blue race

    16 June 2007

    In the classic southwesterly sea breeze that has fueled the starts of yacht races ranging from transatlantic ocean contests to the America’s Cup, 21 boats representing six nations (Antigua, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland and the United States)answered the gun today to begin the 3,600-nautical mile HSH Nordbank blue race. Their destination: a finish line […]

  • Oil firms win Bangladesh rights

    26 August 2009

    Bangladesh has granted Conoco Phillips of the US and Ireland’s Tullow Oil three offshore exploration blocks in disputed waters in the Bay of Bengal. The firms have been given the right to explore for gas, despite ownership claims on some of the territory by neighbouring India and Burma. The oil firms will spend $160.5m (£98m) […]

  • Oil slick drifting to Irish coast

    18 February 2009

    A large fuel oil slick thought to have leaked into the Celtic Sea during a Russian refuelling incident is heading to the coasts of Ireland and Wales. The UK coastguard estimates up to 1,000 tonnes may be on the water, but Russia denies the spill is on that scale. Irish coastguards said the spill, 50 […]

  • IMX Conference Scheduled for June

    24 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Inland Marine Expo (IMX) will be held on June 15-17, 2015, at Union Station, St. Louis, Mo. This event is the annual trade show for the inland and intracoastal marine transportation industry. Target attendees include ports and terminals, barge and towing companies, fleeting and harbor services companies, dredging companies and marine contractors, inland shipyards […]

  • Ørsted Backs Dutch Sea Rescue Institution

    13 March 2019

    Ørsted and The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM) have established a partnership under which the offshore wind developer will help KNRM with fundraising and will financially support four coastal rescue stations. The collaboration starts in the province of Zeeland where Ørsted is developing the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project. The cooperation will be extended […]

  • Iran: Bushehr Port on Right Track

    20 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    Director General of Bushehr Port said that the proper ground for the investment in Negin Island has been prepared. Negin is a small island adjacent to Bushehr Port which is planed to be turned into to a small port. Mr. Rastad noted that last year the ground was paved for conclusion of two agreements for […]

  • Gold Coast Dredging Scheme About to Start

    14 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Neumann Contractors have been awarded the dredging contract for South Channel and South Wavebreak Island Channel Dredging 2016 project on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The works involve the dredging operations in the nominated shallow areas of the primary South Navigation Channel and the secondary South Wavebreak Island Channel. The sand will be used to re-nourish […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Providence Completes Drilling Activities on 44/23-1 Dunquin North Exploration Well

    22 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Providence Resources P.l.c., (‘Providence’) the Irish oil and gas exploration and appraisal company, whose shares are listed in London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM), confirm that drilling activities have now been completed on the 44/23-1 Dunquin North exploration well in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 3/04. The well is located in c. 1,700 m water depth and […]

  • RH Petrogas: Pre-FEED Study for Koi Discovery

    21 February 2014

    RH Petrogas Limited has successfully completed testing of the Koi-2 appraisal well in Indonesia

  • 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 […]

  • Shelf Drilling wins extensions for four jack-up rigs

    7 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Shelf Drilling has secured contract extensions for four of its jack-up drilling rigs. 

  • Kinder Morgan wins approval to start last Elba LNG unit

    28 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    US energy company Kinder Morgan has secured approval to launch the final small-scale liquefaction unit at its nearly $2 billion Elba Island LNG plant in Georgia. The US FERC granted the authorization to the firm on Thursday to place into service the seventh Elba Island liquefaction unit. Kinder Morgan previously said the train would be […]

  • Photo of the Day: First US Offshore Wind Turbine Taking Shape

    3 August 2016

    Deepwater Wind, the developer of the first offshore wind farm in US waters, the 30MW Block Island, shared a photo of the jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern easing into place first tower sections onto one of the wind farm’s five foundations. There is just one more tower section to be mounted on the foundation, Deepwater Wind said, after […]

  • NY Coastal Protection Projects to Receive Federal Funding (USA)

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that four major New York coastal protection projects worth over $1 billion dollars will receive full federal funding, after a month long campaign led by Schumer. The Sandy relief bill that was signed into law required only that the feds pick up 65% of the project cost, but that […]

  • North America: Steel in the water

    11 July 2016

    Last September in Baltimore at the AWEA Offshore WINDPOWER conference the buzz words heard over and over again were “we have steel in the water.” This is, of course, a reference to the jacket foundations for the five French built GE Haliade 6MW wind turbines which will be installed on the first North American Offshore Wind Farm site almost 5km […]