Project & Tenders
VBMS Nets Moray OWF East Inter-Array Cable Deal
VBMS, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster, has signed a Preferred Bidder Agreement for the supply and installation of the inter-array cables for Moray Offshore Windfarm East (MOWE) in the UK. MOWE is a joint venture company owned by EDP Renewables (77%) and ENGIE (23%). The contract award is
CGG Secures Ivory Coast Multi-Client Survey Deal
CGG has secured a contract by Côte d’Ivoire’s Direction Générale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) and Petroci, to acquire with its local partner, Harvex Geosolutions, a multi-client program of gravity, gravity gradiometry and magnetic data over the Republic’s onshore and shallow offshore basins. The schedule
VBMS Secures Moray Offshore Windfarm East Inter-Array Cable Contract
VBMS has signed a Preferred Bidder Agreement for the supply and installation of the inter-array cables for Moray Offshore Windfarm East (MOWE) off Scotland, the UK.
Neptune Bags Quadrant Energy Contract
Neptune Survey has been awarded Quadrant Energy’s rig positioning contract for 2018. Quadrant Energy has contracted Transocean’s semi-submersible MODU ‘Development Driller-1’ for the three well campaign. The campaign is due to run over an estimated 200 days, starting in the first quarter 2018. Neptu
Palfinger Receives Crane Order for German Offshore Wind Farms
Palfinger Marine has secured a large scale order of 151 cranes in total for Trianel windpark Borkum II, Hohe See and Albatros offshore wind farms located in the German part of the North Sea.
PHOTO: TSHD Mahaa Jarraafu Arrives in the Maldives
Following her two-week trip from China, MTCC’s new trailing suction hopper dredger Mahaa Jarraafu has finally arrived home. “Today marks a major milestone in the history of MTCC. Our trailing suction hopper dredger Mahaa Jarraafu has just arrived in the Maldives,” reported the company. The vessel, b
J.E. McAmis Bags Lower Columbia River Dredging Deal
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, recently awarded J.E. McAmis the Columbia River Side Channels Clamshell Dredging contract for 2018. According to the Corps, the contract worth $349,900 includes dredging of the Wahkiakum Ferry Crossing and Longview Turning Basin. The project locat
Petronas, JERA ink LNG supply deal
Malaysian energy giant and LNG player Petronas, signed a deal with Japan’s JERA for the supply of approximately 2.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.
France’s GTT wins Prelude FLNG contract
GTT, the French maker of LNG containment systems, has secured a services contract for membrane cargo containment tanks on board Shell’s giant Prelude FLNG located offshore Western Australia. This contract will provide support for the engineering, inspection, maintenance as well as testing of the con
India Gets Report on Grid Integration for Offshore Wind
India has taken another step forward in its effort to develop offshore wind projects off its coast as the FOWIND Consortium launched a report looking at grid integration issues for offshore wind in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.
NKT to Repair Norway – Denmark Subsea Power Link
NKT, the power cable system provider, has been selected by Statnett to repair the Skagerrak 2 cable, which is one of the four links connecting Norway and Denmark. The cable between Kristiansand in Norway and Tjele in Denmark was damaged in end-July due to external impact and NKT is going to do a tur
Legislators Call for More Hudson River Dredging
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Representatives Sean Patrick Maloney, Paul Tonko, Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week calling on Administrator
£50M Leeds Scheme Officially Opened (VIDEO)
A £50 million flood alleviation scheme in Leeds which uses movable weir technology – a first for flood risk reduction in the UK – was opened recently by Chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd. Led by Leeds City Council in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Leeds Flood Alleviatio
Hall Contracting Wins Port Douglas Dredging Contract
The Palaszczuk Government has just awarded a contract worth nearly $3 million for the Port Douglas Boat Harbor dredging works. According to the Main Roads and Ports Minister, Mark Bailey, Queensland dredging contractors, Hall Contracting Pty Ltd, had won the contract to improve navigational access f