996 results found for 'western isles'

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  • GLDD Secures Tampa Harbor Gig

    30 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Historic Egmont Key will soon receive critical sand thanks to maintenance on the Tampa Harbor channel. The small island has experienced large-scale erosion and structural damage on its western shoreline.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District awarded a $13.4 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company of Oak Brook, Ill., to […]

  • GBR – Water Quality Investigations Needed

    21 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Environment group Save the Reef says the new federal Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, should reconvene the Independent Review of the Port of Gladstone given the latest revelations about water quality in the harbour. A Gladstone Ports Corporation report from September-October 2011 has confirmed that high turbidity in Gladstone Harbour was caused by a […]

  • GBR – Water Quality Investigations Needed

    21 October 2013

    Environment group Save the Reef says the new federal Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, should reconvene the Independent Review of the Port of Gladstone given the latest revelations about water quality in the harbour. A Gladstone Ports Corporation report from September-October 2011 has confirmed that high turbidity in Gladstone Harbour was caused by a […]

  • Netherlands, Australia and Germany up their game with hydrogen hub project

    16 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Members of this tripartite partnership, including the Netherlands, Australia and Germany, have taken the next step to develop a joint hydrogen hub in Western Australia, known as TrHyHub. 

  • Royal Navy Divers Blow Up Two Wartime Bombs Off UK

    12 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Royal Navy divers from Portsmouth blew up two wartime pieces of ordnance off the Kent coast on Easter Sunday. The team from Southern Diving Unit 2 successfully dealt with a German GC mine off Sheerness and a 1,000lb Allied bomb off Margate. The German GC mine, usually dropped by parachute and containing some 1500 pounds […]

  • PTTEP submits plan for suspension of three wells in Australia

    7 May 2020
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Thailand’s PTTEP has submitted a plan for the suspension of three wells to Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA).

  • US Coast Guard Offloads USD 41 Million Worth of Drugs in Miami

    30 September 2015

    U.S. Coast Guard offloaded approximately 1,100 kilograms of cocaine and 4,420 pounds of marijuana, interdicted in the Caribbean Sea as part of Operation Martillo and Unified Resolve worth an estimated wholesale value of USD 41 million at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach, Florida, September 29. In one case, a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, in […]

  • LNG ferry Münsterland back in operation after retrofit

    18 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    German ferry operator AG Ems has started operating the LNG-fueled retrofit ferry Münsterland on the route between Netherlands and Germany.

  • Isle of Man Ship Registry adds four new energy-efficient Berge Bulk vessels to fleet

    10 October 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) has registered four new energy-efficient Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Singapore-based dry bulk owner Berge Bulk.

  • Statoil starts laying pipes for Mariner

    9 June 2015

      Pipelaying for the Statoil-operated Mariner field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) started Monday, June 8. Around 40 kilometres of pipelines for gas, oil and diluent will be installed on the seabed from pipelay vessel Seven Navica. The Mariner field is developed with a production, drilling and quarters platform (PDQ) and only dry wellheads. […]

  • Bergen Group CEO and CFO remain in permanent roles

    30 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Hans Petter Eikeland and Nils Hoff will take on permanent positions as the Bergen Group CEO and CFO, respectively, as of July 1. Bergen Group said on Friday that Eikeland and Hoff both agreed to enter permanent positions as the CEO and CFO respectively in Bergen Group when their current time-limited period of involvement expires on […]

  • US Coast Guard Offloads USD 41 Million Worth of Drugs in Miami

    30 September 2015

    U.S. Coast Guard offloaded approximately 1,100 kilograms of cocaine and 4,420 pounds of marijuana, interdicted in the Caribbean Sea as part of Operation Martillo and Unified Resolve worth an estimated wholesale value of USD 41 million at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach, Florida, September 29. In one case, a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, in […]

  • USGS, NASA Release Study on Louisiana’s Shoreline Loss

    21 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    A pattern of dramatic, widespread shoreline loss along Louisiana’s coast caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been revealed by a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Researchers used NASA’s annual mapping to analyze shoreline loss across most of upper Barataria Bay, located […]

  • A&P Falmouth Bags Wave Energy Contract (UK)

    5 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    A&P Falmouth has been awarded a landmark contract by leading wave energy firm Seatricity to build a wave energy device to be deployed at Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility. The company, which has a growing reputation in the marine renewable energy sector, will manufacture, fabricate and assemble the wave energy converting device, […]

  • Vietnamese Crew Member Killed in Pirate Attack

    8 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    A crew member of a Vietnamese tanker VP Asphalt 2 has been killed by pirates in a hijacking attack on Sunday afternoon off the eastern coast of Malaysia. The vessel, owned by VP Petrochemical Transport Co, had just left Singapore loaded with 2,300 metric tons of liquid asphalt, when pirates, apparently confusing the carrier for an […]

  • Norway: Havyard to Deliver Another PSV to Atlantic Offshore

    10 July 2012

    Havyard has been chosen to deliver another Havyard 820-design to Atlantic Offshore for the second time in just a few weeks. The last time the Atlantic / Havyard cooperation was awarded a contract, it was with oil and gas company TOTAL. This time it’s a long-term agreement with Shell UK. “It’s great that our clients […]

  • MSC Launches New Service at Ecuador’s TPG

    18 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Switzerland’s container shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has added a new service at Ecuador-based Terminal Portuario Guayaquil (TPG), operated by Chilean port operator SAAM. The MSC Feeder Guayaquil/Balboa is mostly intended for refrigerated export of bananas. The new service will involve some 50 thousand additional boxes, according to TPG. “With this new service, we […]

  • Laurin Maritime, Anglo-Atlantic Team Up with Operator Marflet Services, Spain

    14 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    Marflet Services, Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Company Limited and Laurin Maritime are pleased to announce an agreement whereby Anglo-Atlantic Steamship Company Ltd will time charter Marflet’s five modern IMO II-type vessels for two years. Laurin Maritime has been appointed to manage the vessels commercially. Through this co-operation, Laurin Maritime will increase the size of its fleet to […]

  • The Netherlands: Dredge Yard Presents Its Latest Dredge Suction Mouth

    28 February 2012

    Dredge Yard, a specialized company in dredging technology and dredging equipment based in the Netherlands and United Arab Emirates has launched a new product the dredge suction mouth. The dredge suction mouth is a dredge component positioned behind the cutter head of a Cutter Suction Dredger during extraction of non-cohesive material from the see bed. […]

  • Two offshore workers charged for allowing Gulf of Mexico oil spills

    20 January 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Two Fieldwood Energy workers have been indicted for allegedly allowing crude oil spills from Gulf of Mexico platforms to avoid shutdowns.

  • Subsea 7 Starts Mariner Pipelaying

    9 June 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Pipelaying for the Statoil-operated Mariner field on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) started Monday 8 June. Around 40 kilometers of pipelines for gas, oil and diluent will be installed on the seabed from pipelay vessel Seven Navica. The Mariner field is developed with a production, drilling and quarters platform (PDQ) and only dry wellheads. All […]

  • Lukoil completes production well drilling in Caspian Sea

    24 July 2018

    Russian oil company Lukoil has completed drilling of the first production well from the wellhead platform at the Yury Korchagin field in the Caspian Sea.

  • Cyprus: BSM Opens New Maritime Training Centre

    25 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    The inauguration of the new premises for the Maritime Training Centre took place on Friday, 18th May, 2012, Limassol, Cyprus with the blessing of the Bishop of Limassol Athanasios and in the presence of municipal and state officials. BSM, known in Cyprus until recently as Hanseatic, was established and has been operating on the island […]

  • Singapore: ASL Marine Posts Second Quarter Results

    8 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    ASL Marine Holdings Ltd, an integrated marine company offering comprehensive services in shipbuilding, shiprepair and conversion and shipchartering, reported revenue of S$83.0 million and net profit attributable to shareholders of S$10.6 million for the three months ended 31 December 2012 (“2QFY2013”). OUTLOOK The Group’s shipbuilding order book from external customers stood at approximately S$528 million […]

  • Esvagt names new ERRV Esvagt Chastine. Next step Lundin contract

    19 June 2015

    Esvagt, an offshore rescue and support vessel operator, has held a naming ceremony yesterday, June 18, 2015, for one of their Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRV), Esvagt Chastine. The vessel is the fifteenth C-type ERRV in Esvagt’s fleet. Its godmother was Gitte Hansen. According to the company, Esvagt Chastine, constructed at ASL Shipyard in Singapore, will start […]