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  • Historic ship to retun home

    15 May 2006

    A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic. The British […]

  • New light well intervention vessel

    28 April 2011

    Statoil has awarded Island Offshore a framework agreement for a new light well intervention (LWI) vessel on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The third of its type in Statoil’s portfolio the vessel will help reduce the costs of well interventions and enhanced oil recovery. Statoil has awarded Island Offshore a framework agreement for light well […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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. 

  • Overview of tidal and wave activities in 2014

    10 April 2015
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Energy Systems (OES) has issued the Annual Report for 2014 that presents an overview of the activities undertaken within OES in 2014. Take a look at the list of OES members’ demonstration projects that have been tested in open waters. UK – EMEC, 5 wave energy projects and 7 tidal current energy projects were […]

  • Crowley granted small-scale LNG export license by DOE

    11 September 2014

    Crowley Maritime subsidiary Carib Energy has been granted a 20-year, small-scale U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) export license for the supply, transportation and distribution of U.S.-sourced LNG into Non-Free Trade Agreement (NTFA) countries in the Caribbean, Central and South America. As a result, both commercial and industrial customers within NFTA countries can now benefit from […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Liner marks £10m dock extension

    30 June 2009

    cruise ship nine times the length of Belfast’s Albert Clock is to dock in the city to mark the creation of Ireland’s longest deep-water berth. The Crown Princess is due to arrive on Tuesday for the official opening of the £10m extension of the Stormont Wharf at the Port of Belfast. The wharf will operate […]

  • USA: DEP Holds Up Cabinet Hearing on Naples Bay Project

    28 November 2011

    The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has reached a decision according to which it will not ask the Florida Cabinet to grant “conceptual approval” to utilize the dredged muck for the purpose of building Naples Bay islands for wildlife natural habitat. DEP will first have to carry out its regular environmental permitting review process […]

  • PLOCAN joins hands with SPEGC to boost marine sector

    1 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has signed a collaboration agreement with the Society of Economic Promotion of Gran Canaria (SPEGC) to boost the blue economy and marine sector in Gran Canaria island.

  • Snohomish River Dredging Work Wrapped Up

    12 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, in partnership with the Port of Everett as local sponsor, recently completed a $1.2 million dredging project in the lower Snohomish River. The project, which was completed by Portable Hydraulic Dredging, LLC. of Alaska, resulted in the placement of approximately 90,000 cubic yards of dredge sands on […]

  • 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 […]

  • Eco Wave Power unveils plans for wave energy project in Greece

    2 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Swedish-Israeli company Eco Wave Power has presented its plans to develop a 1MW wave energy project on the island of Halki in Greece.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]