The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, partnered recently with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore wetlands at the Julia Butler Hansen Wildlife Refuge in Washington. After constructing a new setback levee the Corps notched the original levee, allowing the Columbia River to fl
A selection of the country’s most innovative, dynamic and successful subsea businesses have made it on to the final shortlist for the annual Subsea UK Awards. The gala event, on Wednesday 11th February at the AECC, takes place on the first evening of Subsea Expo and is sponsored by Forum Energy Tech
North West Shelf LNG export facility launched a tender to sell at least five cargoes from April.
Expro has secured a significant Europe CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) contract, providing fully integrated well testing and fluid sampling services for Statoil Petroleum AS in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Starting on 1st January 2015, the initial 4-year contract is valued at $200
Northern Offshore, Ltd. has announced today that on January 2, 2015 it issued a Notice of Contract Termination to Oceanic Consultants Nigeria Ltd. (Oceanic), an affiliate of Houston, Texas based CAMAC Energy Inc. for the Energy Searcher drillship drilling contract. The drillship, Energy Searcher, wa
Woodside and Adani agree to cooperate in identifying, investigating and developing potential business arrangements and commercial initiatives.
Ezra’s wholly owned subsidiary London Marine Consultants (LMC), has been awarded a contract by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard of Singapore, to supply an external turret mooring system for the Libra field’s Extended Well Test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra oil field is a large, ultra-deep
Tap Oil Limited today provided an update on the Manora project in the Gulf of Thailand, which started production in November 2014 with two wells, MNA- 01 and MNA-02, initially flowing at a combined rate of 2,200 barrels per day (gross). Manora is now producing from five wells, MNA-01, MNA-02, MNA-03
Dear readers, in today’s list of the most read articles of this past week is an article of the arrival of the Pieter Schelte vessel to Rotterdam. To call it just a ‘vessel’ is an understatement. A platform installation / decommissioning and pipelaying vessel in one, it has been described as a twin-h
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 05 – January 11). The largest ship in the world, ‘Pieter Schelte’ has arrived to the Port of Rotterdam today, Thursday January 08. The ship will be docked in Alexiahaven where the final assemb
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis), a leading global services provider operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors, has increased its holding in Fugro N.V. to 20.01%. Boskalis has stressed that this is not a step towards making an offer. Boskalis views Fu
Van Oord Orders Two Dredgers Van Oord has ordered two trailing suction hopper dredgers with a hopper volume of approximately 17,000 m3. Photo Update: Dredging at New Suez Canal Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish said recently that the digging rate was beyond expectations due […
A pipeline manufacturer, Magma Global, has entered into a partnership with back-deck services specialist Maritime Developments to develop a unique well intervention solution for the offshore oil and gas market. This partnership aims to meet key common challenges in the well intervention sector by sp
Damen has delivered a new DOC 8500 cable laying vessel to international offshore contractor Van Oord. Named Nexus, the 126-metre vessel is intended for the installation of electricity cables for offshore wind farms. Van Oord is currently making preparations for the Gemini offshore wind farm which wi
