Orange has teamed up with Telxius to collaborate in Europe and the United States on backhaul extensions for the Dunant cable, a Google project. This 6,600km-long transatlantic cable will connect the United States to the French Atlantic coast and aims to launch services in late 2020. Under this agree
Eddyfi/NDT has acquired Norway-based subsea inspection and pipeline inline inspection specialist Halfwave. Halfwave is the owner of the proprietary acoustic resonance technology (ART), an ultrasound-based technique which allows measurements in imperfect conditions and without the need for liquid cou
Shellharbour City Mayor and former Lake Illawarra Estuary Committee Chair, Cr Marianne Saliba, has welcomed a $15,000 contribution towards funding a Lake Illawarra dredging study to improve boating access, Shellharbour City Council reported today. The money is from the ‘Rescuing our Waterways’ progr
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday held a pre-dredge conference call regarding the upcoming Oceanside Harbor dredging project. According to USACE, Manson Construction will finish the Ventura Harbor dredge by the end of this week. The plan is to begin mobilization effort on Monday, February 2
Equipment and integrated engineering services company Sparrows Group has secured a contract to manufacture three cranes for Qatargas’ North Field expansion project.
The supervisory board of Fugro has nominated Ron Mobed as member of the supervisory board for a four-year term, as per the annual general meeting that will be held on 30 April 2020. Mobed will fill the vacancy that arises as Maarten Schönfeld, current member of the supervisory board, will retire at
The International Association of Dredging Companies’ (IADC) Young Management Program started yesterday in Dubai, UAE. Over a period of 3 days, participants will follow presentations and workshops, based on the topic Dredging for Sustainable Infrastructure. Presentations and workshops are given by Fr
Norwegian shipping company Eidesvik Offshore has been awarded new contracts by Seabed Geosolutions for the seismic source vessel Vantage and the node-handling vessel Subsea Viking.
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract with Premier Oil in the UK.
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.
The inauguration ceremony of the 8000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ghasha, built for Abu Dhabi’s National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), will take place at the headquarters of Royal IHC in Kinderdijk today. Her Excellency, UAE ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr. Hessa Al Otaiba, together
Dolphyn project, led by Environmental Resources Management (ERM), has been awarded £3.12 million ($4 million) by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to further develop its offshore electrolyser design and obtain the consent for a 2MW prototype facility. The project co
DEME Group has just released this beautiful photo of their backhoe dredger ‘Pinocchio’ waving La Réunion goodbye, after having completed the works at the Nouvelle Route du Littoral coastal highway. “We performed dredging, gravel bed installation and backfilling works for the 5,400 meter offshore via
i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s Life of Field business unit, and Shell have entered into a collaborative technology agreement to accelerate subsea digitalisation, initially for a period of five years from the fourth quarter of 2019. The agreement will help fast-track innovation and streamline the adoption of a
