The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has updated its Jacksonville Harbor Deepening Study web page, allowing improved access to the most recent project schedules, study facts, helpful links and more. Deepening the St. Johns River Harbor is a crucial component in the plan to attract future seaport
Working with a group of some of the best Dutch marine experts – TU Delft, TNO, Marin, Damen Shipyards and De Vries Lentsch Naval Architects – the KNRM has created the concept of an advanced ‘on-scene coordination search and rescue vessel’. Principal innovations in hull design, ergonomics, communicat
At 0600 hrs WST, Karoon advises that a production test string was being installed in the Boreas-1 well. After the installation is completed in the coming days, production testing will commence and continue through the coming week. The Transocean Legend semi-submersible rig is drilling the exploratio
Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS) to convert six (6) 200 class DP1 offshore supply vessels (OSV’s), to 240 class DP2 OSV’s. The announcement was made by Bollinger executive vice president, Ben Bordelon, who said, “We are very pleased to announc
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, announces that it has secured a £1 million contract to supply its POS-GRIP technology wellhead equipment to new customer Lotos Exploratio
Petrobras announces that preliminary drilling results of well 3-BRSA-967A-RJS (3-RJS-683A), known as Jupiter Nordeste, located 7.5 km from the Jupiter area’s discovery well (1-BRSA-559A), in the Santos Basin, confirm the presence of natural gas and condensate, as well as the presence of a continuous
Golar LNG Limited announced yesterday that it has entered into a ninety day Vessel Charter Option Agreement with LNG Partners, LLC (Houston, TX) to prospectively provide two of its newbuild LNG carriers under long term charter agreements beginning Q1 2015. The Option is being provided by Golar to LN
U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to combine Army Corps “operations and maintenance funding” with federal disaster aid for the dredging of Fire Island Inlet and beach replenishmen
SBM Offshore priced its first US Private Placement project bond of US$ 500 million for the FPSO Cidade de Anchieta. Yesterday, SBM Offshore successfully priced an inaugural US$ 500 million US Private Placement project bond with 16 Institutional Investors. The bond which is rated Baa2/BBB by Moody’s
As E.ON confirmed that the Newhaven Port will be the O&M site for the Rampion offshore wind project, the Shoreham Port fell out of the picture as well as its ambitions to create 85 engineering jobs. The Shoreham Herald news site says that Peter Davies from Shoreham Port thought that its bid presente
Diana Shipping Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and operation of dry bulk vessels, today announced that it has signed, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, a Memorandum of Agreement to acquire a newly-built Post-Panamax dry bulk carrier of 98,704 dwt, built by Tsu
Oceanografia S.A. de C.V., one of Mexico’s largest leading vessel operators specializing in underwater survey, diving, pipe laying construction and maintenance operations has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the OSA Goliath from CarVal Investors. Oceanografia has successfully ope
Oceanografia S.A. de C.V., one of Mexico’s largest leading vessel operators specializing in underwater survey, diving, pipe laying construction and maintenance operations has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the OSA Goliath from CarVal Investors. Oceanografia has successfully ope
The 21st NSW Coastal Conference will take place from 6-9 November 2012, in Kiama, NSW. The Conference has been held annually for the past 20 years and has grown to become one of the most successful coastal industry events held in Australia. The conference attracts between 250 – 300 delegates, who ar
