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  • Geophysical survey to begin at Irish offshore wind project

    25 August 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    An offshore geophysical survey campaign will soon start at the Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 2 located off the Wicklow coast in the Irish Sea. The goal of the survey is to provide site investigation information to facilitate the development of the Arklow Bank Wind Park. Work is anticipated to start at the end of August and […]

  • Maldives: Maamendhoo Harbour Dredging Plan Announced

    14 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan for the Maamendhoo Harbour dredging program. The mentioned harbour is located in Gaafu Alifu Atoll, Maldives. The project involves new and maintenance dredging of an area of 22,230 m2 to a depth of -3.0 m MSL, extension of the existing breakwater and construction of quay wall and revetments. […]

  • USACE Photo Update: CSD McCaskill Busy in Wilmington

    25 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Wilmington District said in their latest announcement that the dredging operations are progressing well on the Wilmington Harbor Inner Ocean Bar Contract. The contractor, Weeks Marine, is dredging shoaled material from the federal navigation channel, and placing it on the Oak Island beachfront. According to USACE, this contract is […]

  • Statoil Gets Nod for Well Intervention Ops Off Norway

    30 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Statoil has received approval from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Island Wellserver and Island Frontier for well intervention activities at Sigyn and Johan Sverdrup fields, offshore Norway. This represents an extension of the previous consent received by Statoil to use Island Wellserver and Island Frontier for well intervention activities on fields in the North […]

  • Providence Resources boss quits

    6 December 2019
    Business & Finance

    Providence Resources CEO Tony O’Reilly has stepped down from the position and has resigned from the board and all subsidiaries with immediate effect.

  • EGS Completes Survey of Coral Sea Cable

    28 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    EGS has wrapped up geophysical survey of Coral Sea Cable System connecting Sydney to PNG and Solomon Island. The RV Northern Endeavour recently returned to Honia, marking the completion of its trip to Auki, Noro and Taro. According to EGS, the vessel has been in Solomon waters for close to a month, working in collaboration […]

  • New Breakwater for Kerrera

    5 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    The island of Kerrera is set to benefit from a significant upgrade to its ferry berthing facilities, Minister for Transport and Islands Derek Mackay announced today. Around £1.7 million will be invested in the construction of a new breakwater and the extension of the slipway. The project also includes an extension to the Gallanach slipway […]

  • EU Invests in Twente Canals

    31 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The EU’s TEN-T Program will support with nearly €1 million a study on upgrading the last sections of the Twente canals to make them suitable to larger class Va vessels. The study is the last phase before the construction works planned for 2016. This project will focus on preparing the technical, financial and contractual documentation […]

  • Upper Zakum modules load-out in ‘final stages’, project completion mid-2017

    12 December 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Heavy lifting company ALE is wrapping up load-out operations for the Upper Zakum 750 Island Surface Facilities (UZ750) project offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE. ALE, a UK-based transportation specialist, secured a contract to deliver almost 100 different modules to the artificial islands of the Zakum oil field, the second largest field in the Arabian Gulf. Upper Zakum […]

  • French Cruise Firm, Master Fined over New Zealand Grounding

    2 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    French cruise company, Master fined NZD 100,000 following a grounding incident in New Zealand.

  • Van Oord awarded contract for quay wall in Dubai

    25 July 2008

    News – July 22, 2008 Van Oord has been awarded a contract to build a 5.5km quay wall on the Deira Islands in Dubai. Van Oord has already received an award for a 3.5km quay wall for the same project. The new order brings to 9km the length of quay wall that Van Oord will […]

  • Sri Lanka: Government Considers LNG Switch

    4 September 2011

    The government of Sri Lanka  is exploring the possibility of switching to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from the present widely used Liquefied… (island) [mappress] Source: island, September 5, 2011;

  • Photo of the Day: Atlantis SeaGen Decommissioning

    14 March 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    SIMEC Atlantis Energy has recently completed the subsea cutting process for the decommissioning of SeaGen tidal turbine. The SeaGen turbine, previously the world record holder for tidal generation, is the first tidal generator to be decommissioned in Strangford Lough, the company said in a social media statement. SeaGen tidal device was installed at Stranford Lough, Northern […]

  • Deltares: Improving Tuvalu’s Maritime Sector

    26 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    People from Niutao and Nanumanga, outer islands of Tuvalu, rely heavily on shipping operations for the supply of life’s necessities but also to prepare and respond to a crisis or emergency, according to Deltares’ latest announcement. New maritime infrastructures are expected to improve livelihoods for the local population and the resilience of Tuvalu’s maritime sector, […]

  • BOEM, CPRA Ink Two Restoration Agreements

    5 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    BOEM and the State of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) have signed two agreements to aide in the restoration of Louisiana’s Gulf coast. With a combined volume of approximately 10 million cubic yards of sand from federal waters, the project will restore the beach, dune, and marsh habitat along Trinity-East Island, Timbalier Island, […]

  • Project dedicated to novel composite materials for tidal turbine blades backed with €500k

    11 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has allocated just under €500,000 in funding for a project that aims to generate test data on novel composite materials used in tidal turbine blades. The consortium behind the Detailed Material Performance Characterisation and Data Generation for Tidal Energy (DeepCData) project consists of Galway-based CTL Composites Testing Laboratory, […]

  • Shannon LNG tries for another permission, faces opposition

    26 August 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Shannon LNG, the project of an LNG terminal in Ireland’s County Kerry, is due to apply for planning permission, while facing environmental opposition.

  • Carnegie becomes industry partner on project testing novel concrete material for WECs

    14 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    CETO Wave Energy Ireland (CWEI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie Clean Energy, has secured €45,238 in funding to participate as an industry partner in the WECHULL+ Project which will investigate and test a novel concrete material for wave energy converters (WECs). The funding was provided by Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI) as part of the […]

  • P&O Ferries Sees Record Yearly Freight Volume at Zeebrugge Hub

    3 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Pan-European ferry operator P&O Ferries handled more freight units at its Zeebrugge hub during 2016 than in any year since it began operations from the Belgian port in 1966, due to the “continuing strength of exports to and from Britain”. The company saw 420,000 freight units at Zeebrugge in 2016, surpassing the previous record of 398,650 […]

  • Blue-GIFT Launches 1st Call for Ocean Energy Demos

    23 April 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    The €2.5 million Blue-GIFT (Blue Growth and Innovation Fast Tracked) project has announced the 1st call for applications. Funded by Interreg Atlantic Area, the Blue-GIFT project is a coordinated ocean energy technology demonstration programme encouraging longer-term demonstration and technology de-risking across the Atlantic Area regions. The 1st call offers support package vouchers to ocean energy […]

  • Public gets a say in Galway Bay test site lease

    23 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Public consultation is underway on the Marine Institute’s application for a foreshore lease to upgrade the Galway Bay marine and renewable energy test site.

  • SIMEC Atlantis tidal turbine grows stronger

    13 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Turbine and Engineering Services Division of SIMEC Atlantis Energy, a diversified sustainable energy generation company, has unveiled the design of what’s said to be the world’s largest single rotor tidal turbine – the AR2000.

  • NOAA Researchers Evacuated amid Hurricane Threat

    11 August 2014

    Sailors and Marines from the US Navy’s Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted an emergent recovery of 11 researchers with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Aug. 8. The purpose of the operation was to assist the researchers in retreating from […]

  • New York Overwhelmingly Supports Offshore Wind (USA)

    1 October 2012
    Research & Development

    A new poll released on September 27 by Public Policy Partners (PPP) shows than an overwhelming percentage of New York voters favor clean, renewable energy sources to power the state. The poll comes out just as the Long Island Power Authority is deciding on new energy contracts that could include offshore wind, and just after […]

  • Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Project Moves Forward

    13 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    After nearly four years of painstaking efforts, on November 28, the reclamation project of the artificial island of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge for Zhuhai and Macao ports, undertaken by the consortium of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. and CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. and the consortium of CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. and CCCC […]