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  • Mauritius teams up with Australia for marine renewables

    25 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Mauritius and Australia have signed an agreement on assessing wave energy and microgrid possibilities in Mauritius which will be conducted by the Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy. The proposal, which follows on from a memorandum of understanding with Mauritian Research Council which was signed in June of this year, will focus on three […]

  • OMM Awarded EPIC Project from Grupo Saesa for Submarine Cable in Chile

    17 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has been awarded a multi-million dollar EPIC (Engineering Procure Install and Commission) project by Chilean electrical company Grupo Saesa, to install a submarine cable which will join the island of Huar, in the Los Lagos region of Chile, to the Central Interconnected System. OMM was successful in following a highly competitive […]

  • UK: Macinnes Brothers Bags Ardveenish Harbour Deal

    3 September 2013

    Following a competitive tendering process Comhairle nan Eilean Siar announces that local firm Macinnes Brothers has been awarded the £1.5 million contract to construct a new harbour at Ardveenish, Isle of Barra. This will create a sheltered, fit-for-purpose harbour at Ardveenish, a positive development to existing facilities and which complements recent private investment in the […]

  • Russia: Tanker Mira Built by Baltiysky Shipyard Commissioned

    27 May 2012

    Group of Companies Baltic Fuel Company (BFC, St. Petersburg) and Baltiysky Zavod Shipyard have signed the acceptance and commissioning certificate for the third tanker in a series of four non-self-propelled oil tankers of 2734 Project during a solemn ceremony on the eve of the 156th anniversary of the shipbuilding company. The vessel was named the […]

  • Rolls-Royce Wins High-End Offshore Vessel Design

    27 January 2014

    Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide integrated design and ship equipment for a highly innovative offshore vessel for Norwegian ship owner Island Offshore. The new striking UT 777 design has been developed in close cooperation with Island Offshore, to be used in offshore drilling operations during harsh weather conditions. The vessel will be built […]

  • Minesto verifies commercial performance of Dragon Class tidal power plant

    8 July 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Minesto has informed that the commissioning results of its Dragon Class tidal power plant in Faroe Islands have verified commercial performance and are fully in line with simulation results.

  • Solomon Trader Refloated, Destined for Scrapyard

    15 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    The ill-fated bulker Solomon Trader has been refloated in the Solomon Islands.

  • Eastern Launches GLDD’s New ATB Hopper Dredge

    4 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced yesterday the successful launch of the Ellis Island, the barge component of its Articulated Tug & Barge (ATB) hopper dredge currently under construction. The launch occurred on September 30, 2016 at Eastern Shipbuilding’s shipyard in Allanton, Florida. After two years of construction and hundreds of thousands of man […]

  • Conservation groups file lawsuit over Hilcorp’s Arctic oil project

    18 December 2018

    U.S. conservation groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s recent approval of Hilcorp’s Liberty project, the first offshore oil drilling development in federal Arctic waters. Hilcorp’s project envisions the construction of a nine-acre artificial gravel island in the shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea, about 20 miles east of Prudhoe Bay and about […]

  • USA: LIPA Trustees Approve Actions to Meet Long Island’s Long-Term Energy Needs

    26 October 2012
    Authorities & Government

    The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) Board of Trustees voted yesterday to authorize staff to begin negotiating potential power purchase agreements (PPA) for new generating resources consistent with LIPA’s Electric Resource Energy Plan. The Trustees also authorized actions related to diversifying LIPA’s resource portfolio, including efforts and investments to improve energy efficiency through the Efficiency […]

  • 60 Years of Chevron in Australia’s Upstream Oil & Gas

    26 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has marked a significant historical milestone – its 60th anniversary since entering Australia’s upstream oil and gas sector. Chevron entered Western Australia on 24 March 1952 through Caltex (owned by Texaco and Standard Oil of California which later became Chevron) joining with Ampol Petroleum to form West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd […]

  • APM Terminals India Wins Container Freight Station of the Year Award

    31 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    APM Terminals India Pvt. Ltd.’s Chennai Container Freight Station operations was named “Container Freight Station of the Year” at the India Maritime Gateway Awards ceremony held as part of India Maritime Week. A large number of national and regional, government run and privately managed, CFS’ participated in the competition. Participants were judged on volume growth, […]

  • UK: Isle of Wight Council Submits GBP 1.2m Bid for Tidal Energy Centre

    22 July 2011
    Project & Tenders

    A TIDAL energy centre off the Island’s coastline could go ahead after all, if a new bid for government funding proves successful. Following the rejection of an earlier bid for £20million in regional growth funding, to create a tidal-powered Solent Ocean Energy Centre (SOEC) off the south coast of the Island, a reduced bid for […]

  • Neptune Wind Plans to Develop 500 MW Offshore Wind Farm South of Massachusetts (USA)

    21 August 2011

      Neptune Wind intends to develop, construct and operate an utility scale offshore wind farm about 20 nautical miles south of the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border. The project, called Nomans Wind, is being planned as a 500 MW generation facility and will employ next generation offshore turbines designed for the strong wind regime in this area. […]

  • New England Offshore Wind Receives Mass Support

    31 October 2017
    Research & Development

    Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have conducted a study showing that the large majority of the participants support offshore wind off the New England coast.

  • Apache Awarded Two Exploration Blocks in Chile

    29 November 2007

    Apache Corporation said today that it has been awarded rights to explore the Lenga and Rusfin blocks on the island of Tierra del Fuego in the Chilean government’s Magallanes Basin bid round. Located along Chile’s border with Argentina, the two blocks add 1 million acres adjacent to Apache’s 714,000 acres and extensive exploration and production […]

  • VIDEO: Marine Life Thrives on America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    15 February 2018
    Environment

    The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind (SIOW), based at the University of Delaware, released a new video that features never-before-seen underwater footage of fish feeding at America’s first offshore wind farm, as well as testimonials from local recreational fishermen and charter captains.

  • Sabella’s 1MW tidal turbine starts exporting power in France

    3 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    French company Sabella has started exporting power to the Ushant Island’s grid, following the redeployment of its D10 tidal turbine in the Fromveur Passage.

  • Nanaimo Berths First Container Ship

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    The arrival of the M/V Westwood Pacific at the Nanaimo Port Authority’s Duke Point terminal on August 19 marks the first container ship to berth at the Port’s facilities, providing the Canadian port with a direct link to Asia. This trial call, with express service to Japan and Korea, and feeder service to other Asian ports, is […]

  • Environment Improved at Ifield Mill Pond

    15 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Salix, together with Crawley Borough Council and Jacksons Civil Engineering, is about to complete the Ifield Mill Pond & Water Gardens project, the area’s most important wetland and a designated Site of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI). The 12-month program of improvements began in April 2014 and includes:   the construction of a new dam and spillway near […]

  • Popular news, November 17 – 23, 2014

    23 November 2014
    Exploration & Production

    The articles you have read the most this past week include the one on Halliburton’s take-over of Baker Hughes; the production kick off at Tubular Bells; two Greenpeace activists injured in protest against offshore drilling; Repsol starts drilling offshore Canary Islands; Gulf of Mexico platform blast and more…  Halliburton takes over Baker Hughes for $34.6B Halliburton Company […]

  • USA: LIPA Issues Two Requests for Proposals

    21 October 2013
    Authorities & Government

    The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) issued two, separate requests for proposals (RFPs), asking developers to propose projects to be part of Long Island’s future energy supply. One proposal is for variable-sized renewable energy projects and the other is to begin replacement of Long Island’s fleet of “peaking” generation facilities, installed as early as the […]

  • Mariners Should Use Caution near Buoy Site (USA)

    17 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies deployed a data buoy off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, three years ago to gather information on wave action for a Corps study and the scientific instrument has been providing useful information to scientists, mariners and the general public since that time. One of […]

  • Worley to Design Revolution Wind Substations

    30 April 2019
    Project & Tenders, Storage

    Ørsted has awarded Worley with a contract to engineer and design two offshore wind topside substations for the 700MW Revolution Wind project off the Rhode Island coast, US. The project started in March 2019, with the installation expected in 2022, Worley said. “This project is directly aligned to our strategic priority of supporting our customers through […]

  • Oil Leaking from Overturned Car Carrier near Brunswick

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Skimming operations in Golden Ray’s engine room were started in order to allow access to the main fuel tanks.