APSS (Port Authority of Setubal and Sesimbra) has issued a tender invitation for maintenance dredging works. The work will consist of dredging of the navigation channels and basins at the Port of Setubal. The Port of Setubal is a natural port located on the Sado Estuary that possesses natural condit
NOAA has granted new five-year contracts to eight private hydrographic survey companies, for projects throughout U.S. coastal waters. Under the new contracts, which cannot exceed $250 million in total, over the five-year period, the companies will provide critical hydrographic data for updating NOAA
Owing to overcapacity in its rig portfolio, Statoil will suspend its contract with Saipem for the rig Scarabeo 5 from the autumn of 2014, provisionally for the reminder of the year. This means that Scarabeo 5 will be laid up for a brief period. Statoil is planning to re-commission the rig after the
The Dudgeon Wind Farm Limited has awarded the contract for the Monopile Foundation Fabrication for its Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm to Sif Group B.V. The contract covers the procurement, fabrication and assembly of 67 monopiles (MPs) and 67 transition pieces (TPs), including transportation to the Dudg
The New Jersey Department of Transportation hired Mobile Dredging & Pumping Co. for dredging operations in the St. Georges Thorofare in Brigantine. According to BrigantineNOW, the project is expected to start after Labor Day and it will include the removal of approximately 40,500 cubic yards of sedi
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
A supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Grays Harbor Navigation Improvement Project will be available for review and comment July 11 – Aug. 11, 2014. The Corps has produced a limited reevaluation report and supplemental EIS resulting from a General Investig
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell an additional 15 percent interest in PL359, which contains the Luno II discovery. Lundin Norway will sell a 15 percent interest to W
BC Ferries has awarded Remontowa Shipbuilding of Gdansk, Poland contracts totaling $165 million to build three new intermediate class vessels. The contracts have been approved by BC Ferries’ Board of Directors, as well as a total project budget of $252 million that includes financing and project man
After taking part in a competitive tender process, CARIS announces that Le Havre in France has chosen to implement CARIS Bathy DataBASE and Spatial Fusion Enterprise for the management and distribution of their bathymetric data. The harbour of Le Havre, or Grand Port Maritime du Havre, is located in
The Christie Administration, New Jersey, USA, is taking legal action to halt a federally approved seismic ocean survey that is scheduled to start this month off the New Jersey coast, and which could adversely impact the state’s vital tourism and fishing industries, and marine life, Department of Env
Global oil and gas service company, AGR, has been awarded a software contract with Malaysian oil and gas company, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB). Valued at over 1MUSD, the contract signals a three year partnership with an option to extend for a further two years between AGR and the government-owne
For the week commencing 7th July 2014, the Port of Wells dredging scheme will resume in the main channel. The Port’s dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the main channel north of number 4 buoy, between buoys 4 and 2. All material dredged from these areas will be placed on t
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has received the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) biological opinion of the Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet stabilization project concluding that while project activities will affect piping plovers, the project will not jeopardize the continued
