State Senator Patty Ritchie announced that she has secured $200,000 in special state grant funding to start dredging at the Port of Ogdensburg. “The future of Ogdensburg’s deep water port is at risk from 30 years of silt build up that makes docking more difficult, dangerous and costly,” said Senator
More than 99 years after it was scuttled in the First World War, a project to record, preserve and tell the story of the wreck of Australian submarine AE2, laying at the bottom of Turkey’s Sea of Marmara, is underway. AE2 is one of the last untouched Gallipoli battlefield sites, and with the dedicat
Tullow Oil plc has announced that the Hanssen wildcat well, in production licence 537, offshore Norway, has encountered a 20-25 metre oil bearing sandstone with good reservoir properties in the main target (Stø Formation). The Hanssen well was drilled about 7 kilometres northwest of the Wisting Cent
As part of academic initiative to promote and encourage training and education, HYPACK, Inc. was involved in the Remote Sensing Survey Workshop 2014 which is part of Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. Several graduate students from the Nautical Archaeology Program, and undergradua
MHI Vestas has received an order for four V164 8MW offshore wind turbines, which will be installed at Velling Mærsk onshore wind project in Denmark. The company said that the onshore project will allow testing of installation methods and operations and maintenance procedures prior to the commencemen
Severn Subsea Technologies, part of the Severn Glocon Group, has developed an integrated telemetry and control system for wave power company Seatricity’s Oceanus 2 wave device, now moored at the Cornish Wave Hub. The SST system will enable researchers to correlate wave movement with power generated,
WEC-Sim (Wave Energy Converter SIMulator) is an open source wave energy converter simulation tool being developed as a joint effort between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind and Water Power Te
The owners of the respective harbours, municipalities of Umeå and Vaasa, have agreed to set up a joint company, Kvarkenhamnar AB. The new entity with head office in Umeå will take over port management from the Swedish and Finnish local governments as from the 1st of January, 2015. Kvarkenhamnar AB w
The Nigerian Federal Government has approved dredging operations of the Bonny Channel along with four other channels. The Transport Minister, Senator Idris Umar emphasized that the deepening of the Channel would allow bigger vessels to access the Onne Port, and that the project would have economic b
GTT and its partner Cryovision launched an innovative monitoring system to help reduce the effects of liquid motion in LNGCs, including extra boil-off of LNG cargo, due to “sloshing” inside the vessel’s tanks. The new tool, SloShield™, uses an advanced algorithm that allows LNG carrier crews to cons
Eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District projects that will provide critical infrastructure to local ports and ecosystem restoration efforts in Florida received approval as part of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) of 2014, which was signed by President Barack O
Production is now underway on Valeport’s latest innovation – the new UV-SVP – a small and compact direct reading package aimed primarily at AUV and ROV users, which delivers high accuracy data to compliment survey work. Valeport’s UV-SVP (Underwater Vehicle – Sound Velocity Profiler) is based on the
CGG has recently inaugurated an open subsurface imaging center in Yangon to service and support anticipated growth in Myanmar’s oil and gas exploration sector. The new center is the first of its kind to be opened in Myanmar by a major international geoscience company. The inauguration ceremony was
CENTA, a specialist for flexible couplings, delivered the 58 tonnes misalignment coupling for the LORC Nacelle Testing facility, where final installations and preparations for the commissioning tests are ongoing and on schedule. The huge coupling has a nominal torque of 8.6 MNm, which makes it the l
