1272 results found for 'scour'

1272 results found for 'scour'
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  • Denmark: Piles of Rock Prevent Scour Formation Around Anholt Wind Farm Foundations

    7 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Based on the extensive seabed surveys carried out in 2010 at Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, 42 turbine positions have been identified as being at risk of extreme scour formation around the turbine foundation and it has therefore been decided to place a pile of rocks at the positions before the monopole is driven into the […]

  • Comments Invited for Hawarden Levee Repairs

    5 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    A draft environmental assessment for bank repairs to Dry Creek, a left-bank tributary of the Big Sioux River, near Hawarden in Sioux County, Iowa is currently available for public review. The draft EA evaluates the environmental impacts of repairing bank erosion along a portion of Dry Creek and filling a scour hole caused by high […]

  • Norfolk Marine’s TFN System for Elisa Prototype

    7 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Norfolk Marine’s Tyre Filled Net (TFN) system will be installed as scour protection for the foundation of the 5MW Elisa prototype under construction in the Canary Islands. The TFN system will be installed on the turbine foundation inshore in controlled port conditions complimenting the projects “Off Site Construction” technology. Esteyco, leader of the developer’s consortium, […]

  • Tender Released for Southampton Dredging Works

    10 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Associated British Ports Ltd (ABP) has released a tender to the market for dredging and pumping works in Southampton, UK. The notice, published in the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), said that ABP Southampton is seeking a supplier that will carry out deepening and widening of existing berth pockets by dredging and potentially install scour protection […]

  • USACE Kicks Off Ocean City Inlet Navigation Improvement Project

    18 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    USACE, Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Worcester County signed a Project Partnership Agreement last week to start work on a navigation improvement project to address sediment accumulation, or shoaling, within the Ocean City Inlet. “This navigation channel is regularly used by commercial fishermen, recreational boaters, the U.S. Coast Guard and others. The Corps removes […]

  • AWI Scientists Discover Window into the Ice Age

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have found between Greenland and Spitsbergen the scours left behind on the sea bed by gigantic icebergs. The five lineaments, at a depth of 1,200 metres, are the lowest-lying iceberg scours yet to be found on the Arctic sea floor. This […]

  • Van Oord joins Seaway 7 on Seagreen offshore wind project

    26 November 2021
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Seaway 7, the main Seagreen contractor, has contracted Van Oord to install scour protection around the 114 wind turbine foundations at the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbines for this 1.1 GW offshore wind farm located 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus will be installed on three-legged jacket foundations. After the installation […]

  • Pittenweem Breakwater Plan Unveiled

    28 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Fife Council is looking to engage a suitably experienced contractor to undertake the Pittenweem Harbor Breakwater Repairs project. The main goal of this program is to repair the storm damage sustained by the existing 100m long concrete breakwater that protects the entrance channel to Pittenweem Harbor. The repair works to the breakwater will include: – […]

  • Van Oord readying oyster housing at Borssele V offshore wind site

    13 October 2020
    Environment, Research & Development

    Van Oord, as part of the Two Towers consortium, is preparing to install eight reef structures with oysters underwater at the Borssele V offshore wind site in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The project aims to investigate methods for the development of oyster reefs at offshore locations as part of a research programme […]

  • HR Wallingford Supports DONG in Foundations Design

    29 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    HR Wallingford is working with DONG Energy as part of a project to develop a new type of wind turbine foundations. Work underway in HR Wallingford’s Fast Flow Facility will help inform the design of a novel suction bucket foundation, and will ultimately lead to more cost effective seabed foundation solutions for the renewable energy industry. […]

  • VIDEO: Peter Madsen Rederi at Amrumbank OWF

    25 November 2013
    Operations & Maintenance

    Peter Madsen Rederi, a Danish company, has completed scour protection work at Amrumbank offshore wind farm. In six months of time, four Peter Madsen vessels placed two layers of bags on the seabed, around wind turbine foundations. This required 45,000 bags filled with 60,000 tons of dredged sand, in order to prevent the sea current […]

  • Two Ichthys LNG contracts for Neptune

    18 September 2014
    Project & Tenders

    Neptune Marine Services said that its Subsea Stabilisation division was recently awarded two subcontracts by McDermott Australia for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for the Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) engineering, procurement, construction and installation portion of the Inpex-operated LNG project. The initial subcontract includes the design […]

  • Scale Model Tests to Generate Savings, Deltares Says

    17 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    To determine the impact of bow thrusters and ship propellers on water beds and embankments, Deltares is currently conducting scale model tests that will generate major savings on protection measures. High flow velocities caused by ship thrusters can result in large pits in water beds that may, in extreme cases, even undermine embankments or other structures. […]

  • Norfolk Marine’s TFN System Keeps Scroby Sands Turbines Grounded

    29 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Seabed levels around the five turbines fitted with Tyre Filled Net (TFN) scour remediation system units at the 60MW Scroby Sands offshore wind farm have risen, Norfolk Marine Ltd, the developer of the system, reports. Monitoring has shown that pile stability has increased as the scour pits have filled with naturally occurring sediments trapped within the TFN […]

  • McDermott Hires Neptune for Additional Ichthys Work

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Marine Services’ Subsea Stabilisation division has been awarded two subcontracts by McDermott Australia for the Ichthys LNG Project. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for the Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) engineering, procurement, construction and installation portion of the project. The initial subcontract includes the design and fabrication of specialist scour protection systems and […]

  • HR Wallingford Tests New Offshore Wind Foundation

    15 May 2019
    Equipment, Research & Development

    HR Wallingford has started physical model testing of a new offshore wind foundation known as the Gravity Tripod. The company is working with Offshore Design Engineering (ODE), DNV-GL, Cambridge University and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to test and certify the new offshore wind foundation concept designed by Offshore Wind Logistics and Construction (OWLC). […]

  • Subcon Wins Sino Iron Terminal Deal

    3 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Subcon has been awarded by Citic Pacific Mining (CPM) a contract for the design and supply of their scour systems for berth pocket stabilization at the Sino Iron Terminal at Port of Cape Preston. “The larger vessel size and deeper berth pocket means increases in bow thruster and main propeller wash velocities pose a significant scour erosion […]

  • IMDC Concludes Physical Model Tests at University of Aalborg, Denmark

    12 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    In the framework of the Marinet program, IMDC, in a partnership with HR Wallingford, University of Ghent and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, finalised end of December 2012 the physical model tests at the University of Aalborg (DK). The test program was set-up to investigate an innovative scour protection system focussing […]

  • McDermott subcontracts Neptune for Ichthys project

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Neptune Marine Services Limited has announced that its Subsea Stabilisation division was recently awarded two subcontracts by McDermott Australia for the Ichthys LNG Project. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for the Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) engineering, procurement, construction and installation portion of the project. The initial subcontract includes the design and fabrication […]

  • FoundOcean, Delta SubSea Enter Strategic Partnership

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    FoundOcean Inc. and Delta SubSea LLC signed a strategic agreement to provide subsea grouting and scour remediation services in Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuelan waters. The two companies bring complementary services to the table, giving clients a true turnkey solution for pipeline scour remediation and stabilization solutions in the region. “Scour is a major concern for companies operating […]

  • GeoSea Wins Borssele Prize

    16 October 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Ørsted has awarded DEME’s GeoSea with a contract for the transportation and installation of 94 foundations and wind turbines at the Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. 

  • Eden Breakwater Wharf Extension Project Moves Forward

    15 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    The $44 million Eden Breakwater Wharf Extension Project has taken an important step forward with the completion of Stage One dredging and scour protection works. Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, said that Stage One involved dredging the port and the construction and installation of 4000 square meters of scour protection which would safeguard the wharf […]

  • Council Bend Chute Stabilization Plans Available

    12 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    A draft supplemental environmental assessment to evaluate the impacts of stabilizing the Council Bend chute in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, is currently available for public review. This supplemental EA specifically evaluates activities required to maintain the ecological function of the chute without adversely impacting the Missouri River authorized purposes including flood risk management, said USACE in […]

  • FoundOcean, Delta SubSea team up

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    FoundOcean, Inc. and Delta SubSea LLC signed a strategic agreement today to provide subsea grouting and scour remediation services in Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuelan waters. The two companies bring complementary services to the table, giving clients a true turnkey solution for pipeline scour remediation and stabilization solutions in the region.  “Scour is a major concern […]

  • Okanogan, Riverside, Conconully and Plains Get USACE’s Support

    11 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Flood teams from the Seattle District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, have initiated levee strengthening work in Riverside, Washington, and continue berm construction in Conconully, Washington, and levee strengthening work in Okanogan, Washington, and Plains, Montana.  According to the USACE’s latest announcement, Seattle District’s Okanogan flood team is assisting Okanogan County with levee strengthening in […]