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  • CNPC: Construction Starts on HK Branch of Second West-East Gas Pipeline (China)

    5 March 2012

    CNPC said in a  statement that on March 2, pipeline construction of Hong Kong branch of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline commenced offshore Dachan Island near Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The pipe-laying vessel ZHONG YOU HAI 101 laid welded pipelines at the bottom of the sea. Hong Kong branch of the Second West-East Gas Pipeline consists […]

  • PNW LNG project faces more opposition

    26 January 2016

    First Nations leaders, local residents and federal and provincial politicians joined forces in signing the Lelu Island Declaration tat opposes the development of Petronas-led LNG project near Prince Rupert.

  • Deep Seabed Mining Raises Concerns in Pacific Region

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      A coalition of Pacific Civil Society organizations has called for a slow down in authorization of deep seabed mining in the Pacific Region. Procedures taken by numerous governments to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining exploration as a development opportunity caused concerns among organizations. The organizations say that Papua New Guinea has been providing […]

  • Clipper 05-06: A Prickly Situation

    16 July 2006

    As the fleet approaches the wonderfully named Porcupine Abyssal Plain to the west and south of Ireland, they are moving in a somewhat confused meteorological situation. As the weather chart (provided by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Centre in the USA) shows the fleet is spread out in the south eastern quadrant of a […]

  • VOR: Silver fleet saga

    9 June 2006

    Finishing at 13:04.47 local time, fourth place for Paul Cayard and the Pirates of the Caribbean crew breaks their consistent run of offshore podiums which began with their third place into Wellington and leaves them with just four and a half points in hand over Brasil 1. While Cayard and his crew made no major […]

  • Redland City’s Marine Infrastructure Projects Involve Dredging (Australia)

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Redland City’s reputation as a city of islands will be enhanced, thanks to almost $14 million of marine infrastructure projects in the 2014-15 Budget. Redland City Mayor Karen Williams said the funding would include new jetties and boat ramp upgrades. “Redland City has a large coastal population including about 10,000 residents who live on islands, […]

  • Gasparilla Shore Protection Deal for Weeks Marine

    24 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, awarded a $6.4 million contract on April 23 to Weeks Marine of Cranford, NJ., aimed to reduce risks to landside infrastructure on Gasparilla Island in Lee County. The Gaparilla Island segment of the Lee County Shore Protection Project is 100% federally funded by the Flood Control and […]

  • Sea Shepherd Seeks EU Action against Denmark’s Whale Killing

    11 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd Netherlands has submitted a request to the European Commission to launch infringement proceedings against Denmark for facilitating the slaughter of pilot whales and other cetaceans in the Faroe Islands. The request was submitted “with the formal support of 27 Members of the European Parliament”, according to Sea Shepherd. The organization […]

  • Duck Beach Nourishment Project to Start in Late May

    2 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD), the contractor for the Town of Duck Beach Nourishment Project and for the Towns of Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk projects, has provided an updated projected schedule for the beach nourishment work.  The construction dates for Duck, originally scheduled for April 1 to approximately June 1, 2017, is […]

  • Norway: Rolls-Royce Wins Design and Integrated Systems Package for Two OSVs

    14 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced that it has won a £15 million order, to provide the design, integrated power and propulsion systems and deck equipment for two offshore service vessels for ship owner Island Offshore. The contract includes an option for an additional four vessels. Per Kristian Furø, Rolls-Royce, General Sales Manager […]

  • Norway: Rolls-Royce to Design Power Propulsion Systems for Two Offshore Service Vessels

    14 December 2011

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a £15 million order, to provide the design, integrated power and propulsion systems and deck equipment for two offshore service vessels for ship owner Island Offshore. The contract includes an option for an additional four vessels. Per Kristian Furø, Rolls-Royce, General Sales Manager – Offshore said: “We […]

  • BOEM Schedules South Fork Talks

    30 October 2018
    Authorities & Government

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold public meetings in early November to help inform the environmental review of Deepwater Wind’s 90MW South Fork offshore wind farm project.

  • USA: Deepwater Signs Lease for Wind Energy Area

    20 September 2013

    To commemorate the country’s first-ever competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell held a lease signing ceremony for the Wind Energy Area. Last month Deepwater Wind New England won an auction for two areas offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts, totaling to 164,750 acres for offshore wind development. The […]

  • PLOCAN gets new equipment

    19 January 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has acquired a containerized hyperbaric chamber in order to increase the safety of the underwater activities of the research facility. The hyperbaric chamber is part of the equipment strategy included in the PLOCAN roadmap in order to answer to the operational needs of the infrastructure, which will […]

  • New England Aquarium to Collect Data on Marine Wildlife for Wind Farm Sites Evaluation (USA)

    20 July 2011
    Environment

    The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is hiring the New England Aquarium and the College of Staten Island to collect migratory and habitat data on marine wildlife to help state and federal agencies evaluate sites for future wind farms south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The researchers will conduct survey work for a full year to […]

  • Chevron wins biosecurity award for Gorgon QMS

    5 March 2015

    Australia’s Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce named Chevron as a winner in the Industry category of the 2015 Biosecurity Awards.

  • Sea Europe: Future-Proof European Maritime Technology Sector Needs EU Support

    18 June 2019

    Sea Europe: EU needs to invest in research and innovation to further develop new technologies in shipbuilding.

  • Top news, June 15 – 21, 2015

    21 June 2015

    Tidal Energy Today Staff has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from June 15 – 21, 2015. Tocardo to install 5 tidal turbines in western Netherlands Tocardo has announced plans to install an array of 5 tidal turbines in the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier. Tocardo’s five T2 tidal turbines are […]

  • Semi-sub rig to sport new filterless ballast water management system

    17 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Island Drilling has decided to retrofit its semi-submersible drilling rig with Ecochlor’s EcoOne filterless ballast water management system (BWMS).

  • Bulker breaks in halves in South Atlantic

    21 March 2011

    The dry bulk carrier MS Olivia has broken in two halves after having hit the Nightingale Island, part of Tristan da Cunha (GB), on Wednesday last week. The Greek-controlled and Malta-flagged vessel was on a voyage from Santos in Brazil to Singapore with a cargo of soya beans when it hit the remote island in […]

  • Norwegian pulls ship from Hawaii

    18 February 2008

    If you’re hoping to sail around the Hawaiian islands this summer on Norwegian Cruise Lines, be prepared for fewer ships and fewer bargains. The Miami-based line is dropping another ship from its Hawaii fleet, leaving only the 2,138-passenger Pride of America to ply the island waters starting in May. As recently as last month, it […]

  • Blount Boats Awarded Four Vessel Contract

    3 December 2010

    Blount Boats, Inc. received Notice of Award to design and construct four 75-ft passenger vessels for the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific. The vessels will be built to meet the USCG Subchapter ‘T’ for operation between the Marshall Islands of Kwajalein, Rio-Namur and Ennubirr Island on a Protected Waters Route for the […]

  • Cruise ship debts leave tourists stranded

    3 April 2008

    Several hundred passengers on a luxury round-the-world cruise-ship tour were stuck Thursday on an island in the Atlantic Ocean after the vessel’s owners ran into legal troubles. The 460 passengers and 200 crew members were marooned after their cruise ship sailed into a port in the Madeira Islands, a Portuguese archipelago about 684 kilometers (425 […]

  • Dredging around St. Maarten’s new mega cruise pier

    17 November 2009
    Project & Tenders

    The area around the pier is dredged to make it deep enough for the 220,000-tonne cruise ships it has been designed to berth. Sand will be stored on the land next to Dr. A.C. Wathey Cruise and Cargo Facilities until it is trucked to Pond Island or funnelled via a pipeline to Great Salt Pond […]

  • Ecosystem-approach to fisheries management takes center stage

    25 April 2005

    World-renowned scientists gathered last week to identify the science requirements to support ecosystem-based approaches to marine resource management in the U.S. Pacific Islands. The workshop, held from April 18 to 22 in Honolulu, gathered together several great talents in one room, according to director Sam Pooley of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, who chaired […]