A scathing draft report released last week by the National Oil Spill Commission sought to inflict as much damage on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s … By Jeremy Alford (houmatoday) [mappress] Source: houmatoday, December 22, 2010;
Deepwater Wind, a company based in Providence, Rhode Island, has drawn up plans for what could be the largest wind farm in U.S. waters, the company announced last week. The proposed farm would generate a huge 1,000 megawatts of power and would be located 18 to 27 miles off the coast of Rhode Island
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured two turnkey contracts with a combined value of up to US$400 million to build two jackup rigs with options for another four jackup rigs from a subsidiary of Noble Corporation. If all four of the options are exercised, the total estimated value
Westport Innovations Inc. , a global leader in alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies, today announced that Vedder Transport Ltd. of Abbotsford, British Columbia has issued a purchase order for 50 Peterbilt 386 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks featuring Westport HD Systems. Ve
Ton Geul, Business Development Manager at Visser & Smit Marince Contracting and Edwin van de Brug, Commercial Manager at Ballast Nedam Offshore will present their views during the conference Offshore Wind Installation and Maintenance 3011. The second edition of the conference will pay special attent
Starting in February, the U.S. Coast Guard will move about 33,000 cubic yards of sand from the southern end of Point Loma below a Naval Submarine Base and… By Louis Bohan (imperialbeach) [mappress] Source: imperialbeach, December 22, 2010
Tap Oil Limited (ASX Code: TAP) provides the following update on the Zola-1 exploration well, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Location / Proposed Depth The Zola-1 well is located in permit WA-290-P, immediately south of the giant Gorgon gas field in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australi
Port Stephens Council says it is waiting for permission before it can move a pile of dredged sand at Shoal Bay. 14,000 cubic metres of sand… (abc) [mappress] Source: abc, December 22, 2010;
MEO Australia Limited advises that since the last progress report, final logs were acquired and abandonment operations commenced. The proximity of a Tropical Low, with the potential to develop into a cyclone, necessitated the de-manning of all personnel from the Songa Venus rig starting on Tuesday 1
Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, confirms that following successful completion of the first phase of the South Yoloten project for Turkmengas, the state-owned national gas company of Turkmenistan, it has commenced work on the second phase of the project, worth US$3.
Halliburton announced the resolution of the previously disclosed investigation by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) arising out of allegations of improper payments to government officials in Nigeria in connection with the construction and subsequent expansion by a joint venture known as TSKJ o
The next in CEDA’ successful series of conferences, CEDA Dredging Days, will be held in the Conference Centre, Ahoy Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 10-11 November 2011, under the theme “Dredging and Beyond”. On 9 November prior the conference an optional technical visit will take place. CEDA Dredgi
The town will not receive the nearly $1 million in federal funds for the dredging of the Patchogue River as a result of the omnibus spending… By Alexandra Sanders (nhregister) [mappress] Source: nhregister, December 22, 2010;
The Sheboygan Common Council approved spending $100,000 Monday night to help cover its cost to design a dredging project to make the … BY BOB PETRIE (sheboyganpress) [mappress] Source: sheboyganpress, December 22, 2010;
