Around 240 million m3 of sand is needed to construct the first phase of Maasvlakte 2. At its peak, about 3 million m3 of sand a week was being shifted, while it’s now a little less hectic with over 1 million m3 a week. That’s what you would achieve if every inhabitant of the Netherlands […]
Sempra Pipelines & Storage, a unit of Sempra Energy, today announced that its Mississippi Hub natural gas storage facility is now operational, as the first of its two caverns is placed in service. “This is a significant milestone demonstrating our capabilities in developing greenfield midstream proj
Valiant Petroleum plc announced that its operated Viola North exploration well (Licence P1629, Block 30/18b) spud on 30 August 2010 using the Ensco 100 jack-up drilling rig. The well is anticipated to take around 60 days to reach its target depth of 15,750 ft true vertical depth sub-sea (~4,800 metr
The much-anticipated meeting between the SUPP top guns and DAP yesterday over the Rajang River dredging issue ended in a stalemate… By Conny Banji (theborneopost) [mappress] Source: theborneopost, September 1, 2010;
Three company consortia are competing for the breakwater and dredging facility construction projects worth IDR1 trillion at Tanjung Priok… By Raydion Subiantoro & Tularji (bisnis) [mappress] Source: bisnis, September 1, 2010;
The Navy has hired a contractor to upgrade the pier at Mayport Naval Station that is slated to serve as the homeport for a nuclear-powered… By Timothy J. Gibbons (jacksonville) [mappress] Source: jacksonville, September 1, 2010;
The approaching deadline for Offshore Energy 2010 has created an enormous amount of interest for the last available booths. Offshore Energy 2010, Exhibition & Conference takes place on 7 October 2010 in Den Helder, The Netherlands. The exhibition which started in 2008 with 75 participants, will be h
The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors (“the Board”) has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. The Board approved a $0.017 per share cash dividend, to be paid on September 17, 2010 to the holders of record of common stock of the Company at
The Holland Pavilion with its 850 square meters will be styled in the theme of the joint international branding campaign Maritime by Holland that was launched in 2009. 47 Dutch companies will present themselves in the Pavilion to the worldwide shipbuilding industry that comes together at SMM from 7
Greater Gabbard, one of the largest offshore wind farms under construction in the world, has moved a step closer to generating 500MW of renewable electricity. The installation of all the 140 turbine foundations is now complete and thirty wind turbines are now in place. Located approximately 25km off
State oil and gas company PT Pertamina has revised down its investment target by Rp 18.6 trillion (US$2.06 billion) or nearly 42 percent of… (thejakartapost) [mappress] Source: thejakartapost, August 31, 2010;
Cairn Energy’s Stena Don oil rig is scaled by Greenpeace activists to demand an end to offshore drilling. The four climbers used RHIBS to dodge Danish Navy Commandos before climbing up the inside of the rig and hanging from it in tents suspended from ropes, halting its drilling operation. The climbe
Cooperation with Norwegian and Swedish Universities focuses on human factors in simulation. Simulation of Demanding Maritime Operations Kongsberg Maritime AS, Simulation & Training has made an agreement with the Research Council of Norway to form a user-directed research program called SIMAR – Simul
