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  • The Netherlands: IADC Introduces Facts About Subsea Rock Installation

    4 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Rock has been used for ports and coastal protection purposes for centuries – for dikes and breakwaters, groins and scour protection. Yet in the past several decades the uses of rock have taken on new dimensions in the execution of maritime infrastructure construction. Previously referred to as rock dumping, today the term Subsea Rock Installation […]

  • Corps Begins Salzer Creek Levee Repairs (USA)

    26 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Repairs to the Salzer Creek levee commence today as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ officials begin repairs to a 100-foot-long damaged segment on the levee’s right bank, adjacent to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lewis County, Wash. The $185,000 project will repair damages from a November 2012 flood event which caused a 30-foot-long slope failure, […]

  • Kriegers Flak Sees Second Gravity Based Foundation in Place

    23 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Only a few days after the first gravity based foundation (GBF) was installed, the project team of Jan De Nul Group floated off and installed the second and even larger GBF for the offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak in Denmark. According to the company, the installation operation of this 10,000-tonnes GBF went according to plan. […]

  • Fugro Wins Sheringham Shoal OWF Contract (UK)

    20 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Storage

    Scira Offshore Energy Limited has commissioned Fugro EMU to perform hydrographic and geophysical monitoring surveys at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site and along the export cable and transit routes. The wind farm site, consisting of 88 offshore wind turbine generators and two offshore substations, is located approximately 20 kilometres off the UK’s Norfolk […]

  • Jan De Nul Delivers Farmosa 1 Subsea Scope

    29 October 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Jan De Nul has completed an EPCI scope for foundations, power cables and scour protection on the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm, located in Miaoli County, Taiwan. The wind farm is owned by a partnership of Ørsted (35%), JERA (32.5%), Macquarie Capital (25%) and Swancor Holding (7.5%). Jan De Nul engineered, procured and […]

  • Tekmar nets £6M in contracts for delivery in 2021

    3 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Subsea protection specialist Tekmar has recently secured a number of contracts with an aggregate value of over £6 million due for delivery in 2021 financial year. During August, Tekmar Energy and Pipeshield International won multiple contracts to supply subsea asset protection and stabilisation technologies to energy companies and tier one contractors for a major offshore […]

  • All Burbo Bank Foundations In

    22 July 2016

    Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has completed the installation of the last foundation at the Burbo Bank Extension project. Van Oord was responsible for the installation of the foundations, supply and installation of the scour protection and provided the logistics of the foundations between the fabrication ports in Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the […]

  • Activists, whalers clash in cool waters

    9 February 2007

    Two protesters spent seven hours lost in the icy waters of the Antarctic, at one point lashing their damaged boat to an iceberg after a dramatic clash with a Japanese whaling ship. Activists with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society finally tracked down the Japanese fleet near the Ross Sea early on Friday, after spending weeks […]

  • UK: Flood Work Improvements Begin on Parrett and Sowy Defences

    6 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Construction work will begin this week on improvements to the 4.2 kilometres of the flood defences on the River Parrett between Willow Bridge near Stathe and Monks Leaze Clyse, near Combe. The works will involve raising sections of the right bank of the River Parrett between Allermoor Spillway and Beazley’s Spillway by up to 200mm […]

  • USA: Taylor Engineering to Evaluate St. Johns River Dredging Plan

    15 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    As a subconsultant to Atkins, Taylor Engineering will examine the bridge hydraulics and scour associated with the proposed deepening of the St. Johns River channel at the Dames Point Bridge in Duval County, Florida. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) proposes deepening the St. Johns River channel from the mouth of the St. Johns […]

  • Commercial Diver Wins EEEGR Energy Innovation Award (UK)

    2 March 2011

    During 30 years as a commercial diver Bob Durrant was often intrigued by the impact discarded car tyres had on the seabed. So instead of retiring, he launched a company to investigate whether linked tyres could prevent sand scouring which causes problems for turbines, cables and other subsea structures. Now Bob is celebrating the success […]

  • Kongsberg Maritime Launches 3D Subsea Monitoring of Wind Turbines

    23 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Kongsberg Maritime has launched a unique solution for the detection of Scouring, Corrosion, Deformation and Marine Growth, which can destabilise wind turbines and underwater structures causing expensive, and potentially environmentally hazardous damage.  On show at WindEnergy Hamburg 2014, the new K-Observer system, which is part of Kongsberg Maritime’s Modular Subsea Monitoring Network (MSM), provides accurate, […]

  • USA: Corps Begins Repairs to Orting’s Ford Levee

    20 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Work to mend and strengthen Ford Levee is set to begin today, when U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ officials begin repairs to a 175-foot-long damaged segment located on the Puyallup River south of Orting, Wash. The $136,000 project will address scour damage which reduced the levee’s flood defense to a two-year level of protection, or […]

  • USA: President’s Island Dredging Plan Moves Forward

    11 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District has a requirement for the lease of one Cutterhead Hydraulic Pipeline Dredge, fully operated with attendant plant for dredging material from the Mississippi River and placing the material in two sites along and landward of the top bank of the Mississippi River, at President’s Island Dredge Fill, TN […]

  • Restoring the Munna Point

    22 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    An innovative Noosa Council sand replenishment project is bringing back the beach at erosion-plagued Munna Point. Infrastructure Planning and Design Manager Nick Wellwood this week confirmed that the project has increased the beach profile by at least eight meters. Three 15-meter geo-fabric in-situ sand-filled groynes with toe mattresses extend into the river to curtail erosion […]

  • Husky selects Van Oord for West White Rose development support

    18 October 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Canadian oil company Husky Energy has selected Dutch offshore and dredging services specialist Van Oord to do offshore installation works at the West White Rose development Project of the east coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

  • Kiewit Nets St Paul Island Deal

    22 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Kiewit Infrastructure West of Vancouver, Washington, has just won a $10.8 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for breakwater repair and maintenance dredging works in Alaska. Work will be performed in St Paul Island, Alaska, with an estimated completion date of October 15th 2017. The project calls for the repairs of the 1,000-foot-long detached rubble mound breakwater, repairs […]

  • Two die as fishing boat sinks off Channel Islands

    12 July 2006

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A fishing boat sank off the Channel Islands Tuesday, killing two people and injuring one, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Clifton Kent, 45, of Santa Barbara swam more than a mile through chilly waters and was rescued about 9 a.m. on the island’s north shore. A scuba diving boat crew called […]

  • HR Wallingford Ready for the Grand Opening

    23 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development, Technology

    HR Wallingford new sate-of-the-art maritime simulation and modeling facilities, the Fast Flow Facility and the UK Ship Simulation Centre, will be formally opened by Lord Michael Heseltine at Howbery Business Park in Wallingford, Oxfordshire on 30 October. The new Fast Flow Facility is one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated marine test facilities, and […]

  • Jan De Nul Signs EPCI Contract for Nobelwind

    25 September 2015

    On Tuesday 15th September 2015, Jan De Nul Group and the offshore wind project Nobelwind signed the first offshore wind contract for Jan De Nul’s recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel Vidar. It concerns the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 51 monopile foundations for 50 wind turbines and for the Offshore High Voltage […]

  • Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee Contract Awarded

    27 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, has awarded $2.3 million worth Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levee contract to a company from Belle Chasse, LA. The work consists of clearing and vegetation removal, demolition, straddle levee lift enlargement, reinforced concrete floodwall construction, placement of steel sheet piling and H-piling. Also included in the project are […]

  • Pipeshield scores record contract

    11 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure

    Subsea asset protection expert Pipeshield has secured its largest contract win to date. The deal will see Pipeshield design, engineer, and manufacture a subsea scour protection solution for a major quay development project. According to its parent company Tekmar, the contract has a value of more than £4 million (close to $5.5 million). Execution and […]

  • The Netherlands: IADC Presents Facts About Subsea Rock Installation

    4 September 2012

    Rock has been used for ports and coastal protection purposes for centuries – for dikes and breakwaters, groins and scour protection. Yet in the past several decades the uses of rock have taken on new dimensions in the execution of maritime infrastructure construction. Previously referred to as rock dumping, today the term Subsea Rock Installation […]

  • The Netherlands: IADC Presents Facts About Subsea Rock Installation

    4 September 2012
    Research & Development

    Rock has been used for ports and coastal protection purposes for centuries – for dikes and breakwaters, groins and scour protection. Yet in the past several decades the uses of rock have taken on new dimensions in the execution of maritime infrastructure construction. Previously referred to as rock dumping, today the term Subsea Rock Installation […]

  • Construction work began on Sheringham Shoal offshore windfarm

    11 March 2010

    Construction work on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site began Tuesday, March 9, with the arrival of the 164m “Nordnes” vessel, which will position rocks at selected foundation locations in preparation for the start of the installation of the giant monopile structures next month. Using a precision technique, the “Nordnes” will place 2-9” filter […]