Italian based civil contractor SOMIT s.r.l. has awarded a contract to HollandMT and FKAB for the engineering of a Dredge-X150SP. This is a self-propelled pontoon suitable for a Liebherr 984 excavator able to dredge on -18m water depths. The hull is designed according to Bureau Veritas rules as a hea
Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) will become the main client of the Świnoujście LNG Gas Terminal in 2014-2015… [mappress] Source: Warsaw Business Journal, June 4, 2010;
President Mikheil Saakashvili said Georgia, Azerbaijan and Romania will push ahead with plans to build a liquefied natural-gas terminal for… [mappress] Source: georgian daily, June 4, 2010
DP World Southampton is upgrading its shipside capabilities by deepening its container berths and purchasing further ship to shore cranes. Once the dredging works are completed later this year the depth for berths 205, 206 and 207 will be 14.0m, 14.6m and 15m respectively. These deeper berths will p
A delegation from the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, headed by BIWTA-Chairman Abdul Meleque Miah, visited Europe in May. The main purpose of the trip was the pre-shipment inspection of the components for three cutter suction dredgers to be built at Chittagong-based Karnafuly Shipyard,
Van Oord has been awarded the contract to perform maintenance dredging in the port of Beira, Mozambique. The customer is CFM (Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique). The contract value amounts to some EUR 37 million. The work has begun in April 2010 and will take approximately eighteen months to
Serica announced that the Conan exploration well 113/26b-3 has reached a total depth of 1,827 meters without encountering hydrocarbons. The Conan well was spudded on May 10. The target of the well was the gas potential of the Triassic age Sherwood Sandstone, which is the principal producing reservoi
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree approving the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the field of liquefied natural… [mappress] Source: trend, May 27, 2010;
The construction of Maasvlakte 2 is proceeding well. This month, the 120 millionth m3 of sand was sprayed on. [mappress] Source: 3plnews, May 21, 2010;
Ruukki has signed an agreement with Aker Solutions of Norway to supply 24 suction anchors in September 2010 from its Kalajoki unit in Finland. Ruukki has supplied also offshore steels for the same project. The suction anchors and offshore steel plates will be used in the Goliat field in the Barents
Statoil and EGL today, 20 May, announced the divestment of a combined stake of 15% in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline Project (TAP) to E.ON Ruhrgas – a leading energy provider. The new shareholder structure of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project now comprises of EGL holding a 42.5% share, Statoil holdin
On 6 May 2010 Höegh LNG and Kellogg Brown & Root [KBR] executed an agreement for the long term cooperation within the LNG FPSO segment… [mappress] Source: euroinvestor, May 18, 2010;
Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, has delivered its first shipment of Sakhalin LNG to the Japanese firm Tohoku electr… [mappress] Source: oilandgaseurasia, May 18, 2010;
‘Azerbaijani gas will ensure the Europe with energy in certain measures.’ Tbilisi hosted a ministerial on the implementation of the Georgian… [mappress] Source: news Azerbaijan, May 13 , 2010;
