Pride International, a offshore drilling company, has reached an agreement with BP exploration & production to amend the contract for the… [mappress] Source: quote, September 6, 2010;
Civil specialist Murphy & Sons has won a £10m contract to connect power from a offshore wind farm near Skegness to a substation in… By Aaron Morby (constructionenquirer) [mappress] Source: constructionenquirer, September 06, 2010;
Civil specialist Murphy & Sons has won a £10m contract to connect power from a offshore wind farm near Skegness to a substation in… By Aaron Morby (constructionenquirer) [mappress] Source: constructionenquirer, September 06, 2010;
Statoil has been granted consent to use the new pipeline L-103 from subsea template L to Åsgard B. The consent also entails changes to the process equipment on Åsgard B as a result of the new pipeline. There will be no changes to the process equipment on Åsgard A. Åsgard consists of the deposits Mid
For many years there have been little ground-breaking developments in the world of dredging according to Tore Hansen-Tangen, Executive Chairman of Viking Development Group. “The vessels have become larger, the control systems and other equipment have become more sophisticated, but the industry still
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, is pleased to announce the opening of a new regional base in Perth, Australia, to improve service to clients in Asia Pacific. The Perth base will be headed by general manager Elizabeth Tellier, who is relocating from 2H’s Houston office. Tellier said, “We are looking
The next CEDA Dredging Days conferences will take place in Rotterdam the Netherlands, from 10-11 November 2011 under the theme “Dredging and Beyond”. Dredging is no longer a stand-alone exercise, but rather is becoming part of a broader, more integrated project realization process. The dredging indu
WTI oil may trade between $71 and $77 this week. Early last week, concerns that slowing economic growth in the United States could … [mappress] Source: indiatimes , September 6, 2010;
It seems that there has been an alarming rise in pirate attacks in the South China Sea region with the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre saying there have now been 27 attacks since February. Constant news of kidnappings and robberies from the Gulf of Aden has rather oversha
The banner year West Coast salmon run isn’t done yet, but the race is just about over for British Columbia fishermen to haul in as many wild sockeye as they can muster from the biggest return in nearly a century. Last call comes from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is shutting
The 12th meeting of the Maritime States Development Council (MSDC), which met early last week in Chennai, has deliberated on various measures on prevention and handling of environmental hazards goods close to the port. According to Union minister for shipping GK Vasan, the meeting agreed to issue th
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich announced that BOEM has launched a full investigation into the September 2, 2010, incident on Mariner Energy Resources’s Vermilion 380 platform. Per a Memorandum of Agreement from March 27, 2009, on BOE
Portland Harbour Authority recently welcomed its largest cruise ship to date – the 1,848 luxury passenger vessel, The MS Westerdam. Owned by cutting-edge cruise operator Holland America Line, the sumptuous Vista Class cruise ship has a gross tonnage of 82,500, 11-passenger decks and is capable of tr
Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia. This will involve the construction of a new train un
