Van Oord‘s flexible fallpipe vessel (FFPV) Tertnes has been to the east coast of Mexico (Bay of Campeche) to execute subsea rock installation projects on pipelines and cables for various main contractors. The ultimate client is state oil and gas company PEMEX. FFPV vessel Tertnes was deployed to the
IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos urged States to take steps to bring the 2010 Protocol to the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 1996 (2010 HNS Convention) into force, after eight
On September 1st 2011 Marubeni Corporation and DONG Energy entered into an agreement whereby Marubeni acquires a 49.9% stake in the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. Completion of the transaction was conditional on, inter alia, certain matters relating to financing. The transaction has today
At the Assembly held on 24-28 October 2011, the IOPC decided to establish a working group under the chairmanship of Denmark to have a closer look at what ships are covered by the right to be compensated for oil pollution damage. The working group, which is chaired by Deputy Director-General Birgit S
Foster Wheeler AG announced that its shareholders have elected J. Kent Masters, 50, and Henri Philippe Reichstul, 62, to the company’s board of directors. Masters was elected to serve a term expiring at the company’s annual general meeting to be held in 2012. Reichstul was elected to serve a term ex
Rowan Companies Inc, announced today that it has exercised its option to build a third GustoMSC P10000 design ultra-deepwater drillship with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (“HHI”) with delivery scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014. The cost for this rig, including commissioning, project mana
Rowan announced today that it has exercised its option to build a third GustoMSC P10000 design ultra-deepwater drillship with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (“HHI”) with delivery scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014. The cost for this rig, including commissioning, project management and spar
Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. today announced that it has taken delivery of the Sandpiper, a 58,000 dwt newbuilding Supramax. This delivery marks the successful completion of the Company’s 27-vessel Supramax newbuilding program. Eagle Bulk’s fleet now totals 45 vessels with an average age of 4.4 years. T
As of November 1st, the new Damen website, www.damen.nl, has officially gone live. The site has been structured according to Damen’s 10 Product-Market Combinations and navigation has been designed to be fast, simple and user-friendly. The new website aims to personalize content, enable infosharing a
Hurricane Exploration plc (“Hurricane”), an oil exploration company focused on hydrocarbon resources in fractured basement reservoirs, announces that it has completed testing operations on the Whirlwind exploration well (205/21a-5) offshore UK, West of Shetland. The well is being suspended for futur
Flanders Port Training Center, the training subsidiary of Antwerp Port Authority, has signed an agreement in Chongqing (China) to train professionals in the Chinese maritime world. The agreement was made with Chongqing International Freight Forwarders Association (CQIFA) and runs for a period of fiv
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation, the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of commercial and industrial demolition and remediation services, today reported financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2011. Commentary Chief Exe
AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, today announced that it is sponsoring and presenting at the 5th Oil, Gas & Industrial ICT Summit (OT Summit) in 28-29 November, 2011, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Mohamad Awad, Business Devel
DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of DOF ASA, has signed a contract with DONG for Skandi Constructor. The contract will commence 1st November and has a firm duration of 3 months. DONG can extend the contract with additional 2 months. DOF was founded in 1981 and is today an international group of companies wh
