Oslo-listed shipowner Stolt-Nielsen is looking for ways to cut expenditures during the pandemic and is planning to cancel scrubber retrofits on its tankers where it is possible, the company’s CEO Niels Stolt-Nielsen said. As such, the chemical carrier and tank terminal owner has identified up to $30
Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has received notices of termination for two drilling rig contracts.
Transocean has received a contract termination for a drillship operating in Egypt.
Belgian shipowner Exmar has made board changes following the death of its chairman Baron Phillippe Bodson. The LNG and LPG player said on Friday that Baron Phillippe Bodson, aged 75, had sadly passed away on 4 April following his 3-week fight against Covid-19 coronavirus. As part of the management c
The Port of Amsterdam will turn a dredging depot at the former Averijhaven into an energy port to serve as a base for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The port is carrying out the Energiehaven project in collaboration with the province of North Holland, the municipality of Ve
Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has made changes to its executive management team as a result of reduced activity and the subsequent need for organizational adjustments.
ML (UK) Dredging Ltd is about to begin a maintenance dredging operations in the Port Solent area. According to the notice provided by the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, this routine dredging will be conducted within the Port Solent Approaches, starting today (17 April 2020). The works will be co
The Harwich Harbor maintenance dredging program, conducted by the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Sospan Dau, is currently underway. The dredged material will be disposed of to the beneficial sites in the River Stour and River Orwell. Maintenance dredging is carried out approximately five tim
Seabed Geosolutions is feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its activity. A significant ongoing project in the Middle East has been cancelled and another project that was scheduled to start imminently in Brazil has been postponed. In response, Seabed will implement rigorous cost and capex
Underwater technology specialist Aquatec has signed a reseller agreement with Japanese subsea specialists SeaBreath. SeaBreath will distribute Aquatec underwater instrumentation for oceanographic research, environmental and coastal applications in the Japanese market. SeaBreath caters to the needs o
Modular Pontoon Systems BV (MPS) recently delivered a 54,86m x 21,95m sectional pontoon to Belgium based contractor DEME – part of the Sassevaart consortium. The modular pontoon is used to utilize two Liebherr HS 895 HD crawler cranes for the dredging activities necessary for the construction of the
Canadian oil and gas company Zenith Energy has renegotiated the terms for the acquisition Anglo African Oil & Gas’ subsidiary which is the operator of the Tilapia oilfield in the Republic of the Congo.
After this early week’s storm and coincident refueling of the hopper dredger Ellis Island, Carteret County is back to work pumping sand from a submerged pipeline (Line 7) that emerges near the Sea Dunes Subdivision. “Nourishment is currently progressing east from this point, and after this morning’s
The United States exported more liquefied natural gas cargoes in the week ending April 15 when compared to the week before, according to the Energy Information Administration. The agency said in its weekly gas natural gas report that 17 LNG cargoes were dispatched from four US terminals between Apri
