The company that wants to build a $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal in Calais surprised state officials Tuesday by asking them to po… [mappress] Source: Kennebec Journal, July 14, 2010;
Brazil’s transport infrastructure department (DNIT) will spend an estimated 520mn reais (US$296mn) to dredge Para state’s Tocantins river… By Daniel Bland [mappress] Source: Business News Americas, July 14, 2010;
Jan Behrendt Ibsoe, Vice President, ABS Consulting Renewable Energy, has been named a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Offshore Wind Energy Turbine Structural and Operating Safety. The study will provide guidance to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enfo
The third phase of the St. Johns River harbor deepening project in Jacksonville Harbor (Florida) is now complete, ahead of schedule. Contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District have deepened 5.3 miles of the river from mile 14.7 to mile 20, from a depth of 38 feet to 40 fe
Billions of dollars of Queensland coal seam gas projects are on hold for three months so Environment Minister Peter Garrett can study their… [mappress] Source: Brisbane Times, July 14, 2010;
Foreign companies will be in for 49% of the Yamal LNG (liquefied natural gas) project, director of the LNG-project development department at… [mappress] Source: interfax, July 14, 2010;
Beach 6 at Presque Isle State Park is scheduled to be closed today and Tuesday so crews can replenish sand there, park officials said… [mappress] Source: goerie, July 14, 2010;
People with boats in Oak Harbor Marina could begin seeing a significant increase in their moorage rates. At its July 6 meeting, the Oak … By Justin Burnet [mappress] Source: pnwlocalnews, July 14, 2010;
PCBs have become a factor in transportation along the Champlain Canal, Capital District Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports. The state once regularly removed sediment accumlated at the bottom of the canal, but has not done so since 1980 when it was determined that PCB contamination made the cost of disp
Leading international oilfield service company Expro announced it has secured a four-year extension to a major contract with Statoil in Norway. Expro provides well testing and specialist data acquisition services across Statoil’s Norway operations. The contract extension will allow Expro to further
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that a subsidiary of the Company has agreed to suspend a Gulf of Mexico (GOM) contract and has entered into a new multi-well international commitment with a subsidiary of Murphy Exploration and Production Company that will result in the relocation of the dyn
Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore… [mappress] Source: dcnonl, July 13, 2010;
Lloyds Banking Group’s Corporate Markets division has boosted the growth prospects of leading oil and gas services firm EnerMech Ltd with new funding worth £24 million. The Aberdeen-based mechanical engineering services business will also streamline its global finance capabilities with a new interna
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) believes the drilling suspensions announced today by the Department of the Interior do very little to lessen the confusion and uncertainty surrounding offshore energy exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Now termed ‘suspensions’ by the Department, the m
