In March, the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) completed a dredging and beneficial use effort on Sturgeon Island near Stone Harbor, New Jersey. USACE’s contractor Barnegat Bay Dredging Company dredged a section of the Intracoastal Waterway and the sediment was pumped onto the low lying island. Work i
Africa-focused oil and gas company Lekoil has approved the immediate and accelerated implementation of the company’s general and administrative (G&A) cost-reduction measures due to the significant drop in oil prices.
Malaysian offshore support vessels and subsea services provider Alam Maritim Resources has been awarded a work order for the provision of anchor handling tug and supply (AHTS) for Petronas Carigali.
Iberdrola will put its investments in 2020 on a fast track with an aim to surpass last year’s investment record and reach € 10 billion. This will lead to some 4.5 GW of new capacity currently under construction to be commissioned this year.
Marine geophysical firm PGS said it expects the low oil price to have a material negative impact on demand for seismic services and activity. The company is implementing cost and capital expenditure measures to meet an expected significant revenue reduction, with details to be provided in Q1 2020 ea
Scottish ferry owner Caledonian Maritime Assets (CMAL) has ordered two liquefied natural gas bunkering facilities from KC LNG. Denmark-based KC LNG, a Kosan Crisplant’s division under MAKEEN Energy, said in a statement it expects to complete the bunkering facilities in July 2022. The facilities will
Acta Marine’s Crew Transfer Survey Vessel (CTV) Offshore Progress was successfully loaded onto container vessel APL Detroit on the island of La Réunion on March 31 for transport to Rotterdam. Offshore Progress has been working on the construction project for the Route du Littoral since 2016. As the
Machinefabriek L. Straatman BV is currently producing a dredging plough with a total length of 14 meters and a weight of 20 tons. “We received the order to produce this big plough from a local tug and workboat company specialized in dredge support. Based on a typical design our dredging engineer exe
Rovco has made a number of key executive team hires and internal appointments, which will be based in Bristol and Edinburgh. Reena Rowan has been appointed as chief financial officer at Rovco. She has previously held senior finance positions within Innogy and a number of PE-backed organisations acro
Fincantieri closed 2019 with record revenues driven by a significant increase in cruise ship production volumes.
The port-maritime engineering company Siport21 has assessed the nautical feasibility of the Baleares dock of the Port of Tarragona, Spain. This study will allow the access of large cruise vessels – phase I – and large bulk carriers, in phase II of the construction. The aim of the project was to anal
Virtual Surveyor has just released this amazing video, showing how to use drone surveying to support sand pit dredging operations. Sand pits are often wet and certainly dynamic environments. Frequent monitoring is a must, and drone surveying is the right tool for that job. Drone surveying provides a
Huge excavators positioned on jack-up barges on Deptford Creek have been dredging the riverbed to prepare for tunnelling in Greenwich, reports the Tideway – the company delivering the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The operation is a key part of Tideway’s work in south-east London to clean up the River Tham
Eastland Port’s dredger Pukunui is going about its work in the bay, maintaining the depth of the channel. “Eastland Port, like all ports in New Zealand, is designated an essential service by the government for COVID-19 Level 4,” said chief operating officer Andrew Gaddum. “We’re required to keep the
