The 2009 domestic bid market increased significantly to $1.1 billion from $783 million in 2008, primarily as a result of needed maintenance projects.The Corps goal is to reach 95% U.S. port operating capacity by 2013. Heightens the need to maintain and deepen U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports,Jacksonvi
A $4 million NOAA grant will help a university consortium evaluate the readiness of marine forecasts, such as flooding from storm surge or… [mappress] Source: noaanews, June 14, 2010
The Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A. has awarded the building contract for the dynamically positioned platform installation / decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pieter Schelte to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Korea. The contract value is 454.5 million Euros on a total building
On June 11th, 2010, twenty three months after placing the order, the trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Charles Darwin’ was launched at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao (Spain). The godmother of the ship was Charlotte Putz-De Nul, daughter of Mrs Ghislaine De Nul, sister of Jan
Sevan has been informed that the Sevan Driller has been accepted by Petrobras. The rig will be operating in the pre-salt area offshore Brazil under a fixed six year drilling contract. Sevan Driller is designed to include the most advanced drilling capabilities in the industry and is based on Sevan’s
Bosses at Great Yarmouth’s £50m outer harbour are celebrating after they signed a major contract with a leading offshore wind energy company [mappress] Source: evwind, June 11, 2010;
The Chinese company Sinochem Group and Statoil signed today in Oslo a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will foster cooperation and long term experience sharing between the two companies. The MoU follows the Peregrino-transaction where Sinochem bought a 40% share in the oil field offshore Brazi
Subsea 7 Inc, one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced today that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract by BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. for the Andrew Area Development Project in the UK sect
Spring Energy has agreed to sell its 10 % working interest in the PL 341 license to GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS. Drilling of the Stirby exploration well in PL 341 is expected to start within early to mid July this year with the Songa Delta drilling rig. The sale is an integrated part of […]
The Petrobras Board of Directors has resolved to charter four of Siem Offshore’s AHTS vessels for a firm period of four years. Petrobras has an option to extend the charters for four additional years, upon terms to be mutually agreed. The contract value for the firm period is approximately USD 285 m
Today, the outgoing Economic Affairs Minister Van der Hoeven granted funding of €19.5 million for the Far and Large Offshore Wind (FLOW) innovation project. The subsidy matches the same level of funding previously announced by the companies in the FLOW consortium. The budget will be spent on the fir
Fugro N.V., the Netherlands, and Tebma Shipyards Limited, India, have signed a ship building contract for new Geotechnical Research Vessels. The vessels are DP2, approximately 82.9 meters long, 19.8 meters wide and have a dead weight of approximately 2500 tons. The contract is for two firm orders pl
The environmental disasters this spring seem to know no end. Most recently, the United States is facing the largest oceanic catastrophe ever, as BP’s Deepwater Horizon continues to discharge thousands of gallons of oil into pristine waters of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to suffocate marine life
This is the latest in the IADC series of concise, easy-to-read “management summaries”, which give overviews of essential information on specific dredging and maritime construction subjects. Facts About Environmental Monitoring explains why monitoring is necessary before, during and after most mariti
