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  • Spotted: Ulstein Launches Its Largest Offshore Vessel Yet

    26 August 2015
    Business & Finance

      On Tuesday night, August 25th, yard number 302 Island Venture, an offshore construction vessel for Island Offshore/Edison Chouest Offshore, was launched from the dock hall at Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft. Currently, the heli deck is being mounted. Measuring close to 160 m in length, and with at beam of 30 m, she is the […]

  • GEO Completes Geophysical Survey for Anholt Offshore Wind Farm Sea Cable (Denmark)

    6 June 2011
    Storage

      GEO has just completed a geophysical survey for the sea cable connecting the island of Anholt with the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. In continuation Energinet.dk has asked to carry out a Vibrocore and CPT campaign along the cable route and a CPT campaign along a cable route in the Little Belt. Anholt Offshore Wind […]

  • New Zealand: Otago Harbour Dredging Plan Gets Green Light

    12 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Environment Court Judge Jeff Smith has granted Port Otago’s application to deepen its Otago Harbour channel in anticipation of the arrival of bigger container ships on the New Zealand coast. The company had originally sought consent from the Otago Regional Council for resource consent to: • Deepen, widen, and maintain the lower harbour channel; the […]

  • Norwegian duo teams up on Equinor’s CO2-cutting LNG project

    2 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Asset integrity management company Axess Group has won an enterprise of competence (EoC) contract with Norway’s energy services company Aibel for work on a project operated by the compatriot energy giant Equinor.

  • P&O Ferries Breaks Its Freight Volume Record on the English Channel

    12 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    Pan-European ferry operator P&O Ferries carried more freight between Dover and Calais in 2015 than in any previous year in its modern history. The ferry company’s six ships on the English Channel transported 1.3 million units of freight during the 12 month period – a 22 per cent year-on-year increase, the company said. Both the third and […]

  • Photo Update: Harper’s Slough Restoration

    30 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge has just posted on its facebook page the latest photos from the Harper’s Slough restoration project. The Harper’s Slough Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project was planned and designed under the authority of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program. A single construction contract was awarded in September 2014 […]

  • Denmark could build its first and world’s largest floating wind farm; Project considers Power-to-X capabilities

    23 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has confirmed to our sibling news site offshoreWIND.biz that it had submitted an application for a gigawatt-scale floating wind farm near the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The project, which could also include Power-to-X (green hydrogen) capabilities, would be Denmark’s first and the world’s largest wind farm of this kind if approved to be built by 2027.

  • New Zealand: Tauranga Port on Expansion Track

    1 March 2012

    Port of Tauranga is to buy a seventh ship-to-shore gantry crane for its Sulphur Point fleet to handle the growing container volumes at the Port. The Port will also expand its fleet of straddle carriers and increase the capacity of its rail terminal at Sulphur Point as it is increasingly used as a hub port […]

  • New Zealand: Port of Tauranga Invests in Container Terminal

    1 March 2012
    Business & Finance

      Port of Tauranga is to buy a seventh ship-to-shore gantry crane for its Sulphur Point fleet to handle the growing container volumes at the Port. The Port will also expand its fleet of straddle carriers and increase the capacity of its rail terminal at Sulphur Point as it is increasingly used as a hub […]

  • NIFHA Seeks Contractors for Bathymetric Surveys (UK)

    9 November 2012

    Northern Ireland Fishery Harbour Authority (NIFHA) is seeking experienced surveyors for the provision of ad hoc bathymetric surveys of the NIFHA Ports of Ardglass, Kilkeel and Portavogie. Surveys are undertaken as a needed basis to inform dredging works and navigational advice. The NIFHA wishes to appoint a single contract for the provision of these surveys. […]

  • Minesto extends tidal PPA with electric utility SEV as plans for scale-up take shape

    8 September 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has signed a two-year extension of its power purchase agreement (PPA) with the electric utility company SEV for its tidal energy site in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands.

  • Spirit Energy drills Barents Sea duster offshore Norway

    13 August 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Spirit Energy has completed the drilling of a wildcat well north of the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. The well is dry.

  • Operation RENDER SAFE 2013 to Begin Next Month

    10 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Operation RENDER SAFE 2013 is on track to begin next month. The mission is a standing Australian Defence Force (ADF) operation to help remove the explosive remnants of war from the South Pacific. This year Solomon Islands is the focus, the task is to continue removing ordnance left behind 68 years ago. Commander Doug Griffiths, […]

  • New Zealand: Salvage Teams Focus on Wood Removal from Rena

    9 February 2012

    Svitzer salvage teams yesterday focused on the labour-intensive task of emptying containers of wood on the bow section of the Rena, and preparing the bundles of timber for removal by helicopter. Salvors also worked on securing hatch covers on the bow section which had been observed moving with the swell late last week. This work […]

  • WIND FARM UPDATE

    24 August 2015

     North Irish Sea Array Sustainable energy company Oriel Windfarm Ltd. and renewable energy group Gaelectric Holdings plc have signed a MoU for the joint development of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind project in the north Irish Sea. NISA is located on the east coast of the Republic of Irelnad in relatively shallow waters with favourable sea bed conditions. […]

  • Prysmian, Nexans, and Fulgor to submit final offers in submarine power cable battle for Greek interconnectors

    17 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Prysmian, Nexans, and Fulgor are being invited to provide their final offers for the tender process for submarine alternating current (AC) cables destined for Aegean Islands interconnectors.

  • New Navy ship bound for Falklands

    21 August 2007

    The Royal Navy’s newest warship has set off on an 8,000-mile journey to the South Atlantic to patrol the Falkland Islands. HMS Clyde will stop off at the Canary Islands and then Brazil before beginning its five-year tour of duty.

  • Haa Alifu Coastal Protection Scheme Starts

    24 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Coastal protection works at Haa Alifu atoll Hoarafushi officially started yesterday, according to the Republic of Maldives’ Ministry of Environment and Energy. The ceremony was inaugurated by the President of Republic of Maldives, His Excellency Abdulla Yaameen Abdul Gayyoom. The project, worth around $1.2 million, is being carried out by Maldives Transport and Contracting Company […]

  • McDermott picks up job on Louisiana’s proposed LNG project

    8 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Monkey Island LNG (MILNG), a private company addressing the global energy crisis and growing demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) through the development of U.S. natural gas infrastructure, has hired McDermott, a U.S. offshore engineering and construction player, on a master services agreement (MSA) for work at its planned world-scale natural gas liquefaction facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

  • Mariners Harbor Plans Terminal Expansion (USA)

    5 April 2010

    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A public scoping meeting on the expansion of the New York Container Terminal (NYCT) will be held tomorrow night, focusing on an issue that has been a point of contention on Staten Island… [mappress] Source:silive,April 5,2010;

  • 13 dolphins killed by driftnet

    19 May 2005

    Fishermen off Greece’s Aegean island of Samothrace have found 13 dead dolphins and a small whale in an illegal driftnet, local authorities said on Friday. The 1 km (0.6 mile) net was pulled into the island’s port because of fears it could damage ships’ propellers.

  • WWT floating tidal turbine to be tested off British Columbia

    9 May 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Water Wall Turbine (WWT) is progressing well with the construction of its floating tidal energy turbine planned to be deployed for testing off Dent Island this year.

  • Shell to commission two new subsea wells on Draugen

    29 April 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has granted its approval to the oil giant Shell to use two subsea wells on the Draugen field, offshore Norway.  Shell is the operator of the Draugen oil field at Haltenbanken located in block 6407/12 in the Norwegian Sea, around 150 kilometres north of Kristiansund. Production from the […]

  • RI Senator Kicks Off Energy Ocean International Event (USA)

    10 June 2013

    Energy Ocean International will be host to the United States Senator for Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, who will kick-off the 10th Annual Conference at 9:45 a.m. EST on Monday, June 10th. The Energy Ocean International Conference and Exhibition, which will be held June 10-12, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, Rhode Island, has been […]

  • NY Coast Guard Aiding Disabled Freighter

    28 May 2014

    The US Coast Guard is responding to a disabled freighter that lost steering earlier today while transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway in the vicinity of Wellesley Island, New York. The freighter is currently anchored upriver, about one-third of a mile from the Thousand Island Bridge. There are no reported injuries to the crew and no […]