MERSEYSIDE companies must consider joint ventures with continental firms for a stake in the potentially huge offshore wind industry. By Peter Elson (liverpooldailypost) [mappress] Source: liverpooldailypost, November 18, 2010; Image: dvewc
MERSEYSIDE companies must consider joint ventures with continental firms for a stake in the potentially huge offshore wind industry. By Peter Elson (liverpooldailypost) [mappress] Source: liverpooldailypost, November 18, 2010; Image: dvewc
The Cochin Port Trust has decided to go back to private-public participation for its Rs. 200-crore international bunkering terminal where… (livemint) [mappress] Source: livemint, November 18, 2010;
CIRIA has released the second edition of the Beach management manual with the aim to benefit the whole coastal community. The manual has been updated since its original publication in 1996, as a vital resource providing the beach manager with the best possible knowledge and techniques on managing be
Baker Hughes announced today that it has opened a new facility in Welshpool, Australia, to meet growing demand and increased oilfield activity in Australia. Three of the company’s service lines–pumping services, tubular services, and process and pipeline services–are now housed in the new 340,000-sq
Acting on the Governor’s commitment to oppose a potentially damaging onshore pipeline that would traverse the Garden State and connect to a proposed natural gas facility 16 miles off the Jersey coast, the Christie Administration has filed a motion to intervene in opposition to an application from Li
Lantic Entertainment Systems has appointed MAP Marine as its sales and service partner in France. Based in Marseille, MAP Marine is an experienced supplier and installer of electronics of all kinds and represents a large number of leading brands in the navigation, communications, systems monitoring
Global Marketing Systems (GMS) cooperates with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) on green ship recycling. GMS, one of the world’s biggest cash buyers, purchases vessels from ship owners before delivering them to ship recycling facilities. GL will help GMS to implement green ship recycling according to the Hon
T.O.S. –Transport & Offshore Services- from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is proud to deliver the Singapore Inspector for its new owners. The former Noordhoek Singapore (ex-Serviceman, ex-Smit Marlin and ex-Smit-Lloyd 61) will sail today to start work in the Nigerian offshore oilfields as platform mai
This is the complete list of 23 forthcoming exploration wells planned by British-based Premier Oil over the 2010/2011 period Premier’s forward exploration drilling programme features five wells in the UK sector of the North Sea at Varadero and Burgman which were due to be drilled in the final quarte
Plans are being made to tap Smørbukk North-East field as a satellite development tied in to the Åsgard B platform offshore Norway. Operator Statoil has indicated that the satellite which is estimated to contain 16 million boe including gas oil and condensate will be brought onstream in December next
More than 60 representatives of the international offshore wind industry gathered last week at the Offshore Wind Seminar, organized by the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) and the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). This seminar included a visit to unique model tests in t
IHC Hytop, part of IHC Merwede, has announced that its riser pull-in package has successfully pulled in the first three risers on a MODEC FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) vessel. The FPSO vessel is currently deployed off the coast of Brazil by MODEC and operated by the contractor on
IHC Merwede’s trailing suction hopper dredger, Vox Máxima, has been awarded Ship of the Year at the fifth annual Maritime Awards Gala. This award is presented to the manufacturer of a vessel which is designed, built and completed in The Netherlands, and which distinguishes itself in the areas of inn
