Yesterday at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans, GE Marine announces its timeline for meeting EPA Tier 3 and Tier 4i, as well as IMO Tier III emission compliance without the need for exhaust gas after-treatment for its L250 and V250 marine diesel engines. GE’s engine technology eliminate
SeaBird Exploration Plc (“SeaBird”) announces that Aquila Explorer has received a letter of award from a Company in the Asia Pacific region. The contract has an estimated duration of 75 days with a value of Approximately USD 8 million, with an optional extension of about 45 days with a value of USD
Construction crews will begin work Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, to install two casing pipes beneath Woodland Road as part of the Nanticoke River dredging project. This project will affect those traveling between Seaford and Woodland throughout the month of December. The temporary pipes are necessary to sh
MAN Diesel & Turbo has confirmed the first order for its low-speed, dual-fuel ME-GI engine. American shipping company, TOTE, has signed a contract with its compatriot shipyard NASSCO in San Diego for the construction of two new state-of-the-art containerships with an option for three more vessels fo
EMGS, a Norwegian provider of electromagnetic (EM) technology, has signed a contract extension worth approximately USD 12 million with Petrobras for 3D EM data acquisition project in Brazil. Data acquisition is already underway with an estimated completion in early January 2013. Boa Galatea is the v
Alcatel-Lucent and Main One Cable Company Limited, have renewed their marine maintenance contract for Main One’s submarine cable system connecting Portugal to Nigeria over 7,000 km and contributing to enhance overall African and international connectivity. Delivering high-speed bandwidth of 1.92 Tbi
A ceremony of signing the Agreement between the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) and Azerbaijan State Maritime Academy (ASMA) was held on December 6, 2012 in Baku. On RS behalf the Agreement was signed by Gennady Kolesnikov, RS Chief Operating Officer, on ASMA behalf it was signed by Rasim
The meeting of the Hudson River PCBs Site Community Advisory Group (CAG) is scheduled for Tuesday, December 11, from 1-3:45 in the Gideon Putnam room in the Admin Building at Saratoga Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs. Meeting Agenda 1:00 Welcome, Introductions, Review September Meeting Summary 1:1
General Dynamics NASSCO hosted, Dec. 4th, a keel laying ceremony for the second Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship at the company’s San Diego shipbuilding facility. Delivery of the second MLP ship is scheduled for first quarter 2014.This second MLP ship will be named John Glenn, in honor of John Her
On 5 December Statoil entered into a contract with Vestbase AS for the establishment of new buildings and infrastructure especially adjusted to serve Åsgard subsea compression. Statoil is planning to install the compressors and associated seabed equipment on the Åsgard field in the autumn of 2014 wi
EXMAR Marine NV received payment of a license fee on 3 December for the design of the OPTI-11000® semisubmersible hull design which has been customized for LLOG’s Delta House floating production unit (FPU) to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2014. The OPTI® is a proprietary semisubmersible desi
A Vega VLS-46 sector light, supplied to Aberdeen Harbour by Hydrosphere, has played a major part in facilitating the successful completion of the harbour’s £5.2m dredging operation, paving the way for the harbour to play a key role in offshore wind developments. The harbour is already the centre of
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, has announced the completion of the 2012 drilling programme. The Scotia well (F31/12-01) has been successfully plugged and abandoned, bringing to an end FOGL’s 2012 drillin
The United States has entered into two settlements worth more than $50 million to clean up contamination from the B.F. Goodrich Superfund Site in San Bernardino County. There are a dozen settling parties including Emhart Industries (Emhart), and Pyro Spectaculars, Inc. (PSI), as well as the Cities o
