Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $35 million with the Ministry of Works in Bahrain. The contract encompasses
Kleven has signed a new shipbuilding contract with Malaysian based Joint Venture Company IES Pioneer Ltd. The contract for the new vessel is of the MT 6015 MPSV design, designed by Norwegian design company MarinTeknikk, and will be outfitted with a crane, helideck and FiFi II. Delivery will be in Se
Boskalis Consortium Bags Singapore Port Expansion Contract Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has in consortium been awarded work associated with the expansion of the Singapore Tuas Mega Port development. Experts Doubt Panama Canal Expansion Will Be “Game Changer” The expansion of the Pana
The expansion of the Panama Canal to accommodate a new generation of huge cargo ships is not likely to be “a game changer” for United States ports, John Reinhart, the CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, told an international audience of maritime economists in Norfolk on Wednes
Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded a substantial order for its foam buoyancy systems, for the prestigious second phase development of the Shah Deniz field offshore Azerbaijan. Contracted by oil and gas company, BP, Trelleborg will supply a buoyancy package; filled with its high tempera
Unique Maritime Group (UMG), one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, has announced a pivotal strategic equity investment from Blue Water Energy. Founded in 1993, UMG is a specialist in the provision of services, and the sale and rental of equipment for t
VOSTA LMG successfully delivered Crossover ball joints to several customers in the Middle East. The Crossover ball joint is a new and efficient dredge ball joint that provides optimal flow performance. Through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the frictional losses and turbulence have been reduced
The new Tier 4 Final/Stage IV-compliant EC250E and EC300E crawler excavators from Volvo Construction Equipment are powerful and efficient machines, designed to reduce fuel consumption and increase productivity. New Volvo EC250E and EC300E crawler excavators deliver a 5 percent improvement in fuel ef
Petrobras facing $15B loss in case of SBM Offshore contracts termination Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, has said that it may have a reduction of $15 billion in net income between 2014 and 2018 in case of termination of current contracts with SBM Offshore. Offshore helicopter saf
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) has announced today that it received a Letter of Award for a USD 1.94 billion order for the second package of the Nasr Full Field Development Project to build the fixed platforms and to lay subsea cables from Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) on
Penspen has been awarded a contract to provide Abu Dhabi Marine Operation Company (ADMA OPCO) with Project Management Consultancy Services for Additional Gas Supply from USSC Project in the UAE. Under the terms of the contract, Penspen will project manage Technip/NPCC in its upgrade of the gas facil
Drydocks World, the international service provider to the shipping, maritime, offshore, oil, gas and energy sectors, announced the completion of a major refurbishment carried out on National Drilling Company’s (NDC) Offshore Drilling Rig Al Ghallan. The project is part of a series of four rig repair
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ShawCor Ltd. announced that its field-applied pipeline coatings and services division, Canusa-CPS, has received a contract with a value of approximately Cdn $30 million from Saipem SpA to provide field joint coating services for Line 1 of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. The South Stream Offshore
