Project & Tenders
Top News of the Week, 11 – 17 December 2017
Oleg Strashnov to Stay on Beatrice Until New Year Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov – which left the Beatrice site after installing the 24th jacket foundation in late September and returned to the job in November – has put the 25th jacket in place and thus officially resumed the wor
Top News of the Week, 11 – 17 December 2017
Oleg Strashnov to Stay on Beatrice Until New Year Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov – which left the Beatrice site after installing the 24th jacket foundation in late September and returned to the job in November – has put the 25th jacket in place and thus officially resumed the wor
Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (December 11-17, 2017). Van Oord Completes Expansion of Taiwan’s Largest Port Van Oord has completed the expansion of the Port of Kaohsiung eight months ahead of schedule, reported the company on its website. LN
DEA Divests Interest in Polarled, Nyhamna and Gassled
DEA has sold its ownership in the Polarled gas pipeline, the Nyhamna onshore gas processing plant and Gassled, the Norwegian gas transportation network, to CapeOmega. “The transaction represents a step forward in DEA’s strategy to divest legacy infrastructure assets in our portfolio and unlock valu
India’s Petronet inks revised deal with ExxonMobil, buys more LNG
India’s Petronet LNG said Friday it had signed a revised deal with the Australian unit of ExxonMobil under which it will buy additional volumes of LNG. Petronet LNG, India’s largest importer of the chilled fuel, signed the original deal back in 2009 under which it agreed to buy around 1.5 million to
Vattenfall Reveals Dutch Offshore Wind Power Play
Vattenfall is participating in the tender for the Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind zone, the Netherland’s first non-subsidized tender. Vattenfall has decided to join the tender as part of its commitment to the green transition of Northern Europe, and sees it as an important step to become fossil
Smith Island Maintenance Dredging About to Begin
Vortex Marine Construction Inc., of Oakland, California, will begin a $3.1-million maintenance dredging project of the Big Thorofare and Twitch Cove federal channels in early 2018, reports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. “These two channels go through the heart of Smith Island
Atkins wins FEED work on Repsol’s Yme field
Atkins has been awarded a contract with Repsol to provide structural front end engineering design (FEED) for the remediation of the Yme asset in the North Sea.
Oceaneering Wins Maryland Offshore Wind Survey Contract
Oceaneering has secured a contract by US Wind, Inc., a subsidiary of the Toto Holding Group, to conduct marine geophysical survey services starting in the second half of 2018 in support of US Wind’s new Maryland offshore wind project. Roderick A. Larson, president and chief executive officer of Ocea
France’s GTT inks deal to service Chevron’s LNG fleet
GTT, the French maker of LNG containment systems, signed a 5-year service deal with a unit of US energy giant Chevron to support the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping operations. Under the deal, the French company will support Chevron Transport Corporation’s maintenance and operation of
Subsea 7 Scores Hat-Trick with Aker BP
Subsea 7 has been awarded two new contracts from alliance partner Aker BP in the Norwegian North Sea. The contracts are for the Skogul project and the Valhall Flank West project, valued between $50 million and $150 million. Earlier this week, Subsea 7 also announced a contract from Aker BP between $
Netherlands Awaits Zero Subsidy Bids as Offshore Wind Tender Opens
The Netherlands is opening the first phase of the tender for sites I and II in the Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind zone on Friday, 15 December.
Aker BP hands in development plans for three offshore fields
Aker BP has submitted the plans for development and operations for three offshore fields to the Norwegian authorities.
IOG targets Blythe gas field FDP approval for 2018
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has been given an extension of its P1736 license in the UK North Sea which contains the Blythe gas discovery.