Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion) has won a contract with Helix UK for a major upgrade on MSV Seawell (light well intervention/dive support vessel). The Seawell is expected at the yard in the second half of December 2014. As the upgrade will be executed over the win
An Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Remedial Action Contract was awarded recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, for cleanup work at the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site in New Bedford, Mass. Work will be accomplished by Jacobs Field Services North America
Siemens is looking to divest its ocean power generation business, in particular Marine Current Turbines (MCT), based in Bristol, United Kingdom. This restructuring would affect 45 employees in the Hydro & Ocean unit in Siemens Division Wind Power & Renewables. It is expected that the divestment will
IHC Hydrohammer, a business unit of the Dutch based Royal IHC, has recently commissioned the S-1800 Hydrohammer with 5.5m Pile Guiding for the Chinese Offshore Wind market. Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering, a joint venture between ZPMC and Longyuan, is using the S-1800 hydraulic piling ha
The Lake Panorama Rural Improvement Zone, located in Panora, IA, about 45 minutes west of Des Moines, recently upgraded its dredging equipment to a new DSC Barracuda Class dredge and 16-inch floating booster unit. Lake Panorama is the largest private lake in Iowa, with 1,400 acres of lake surface, m
An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), known as SeaBED, has provided the first detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice. The new technology delivered accurate ice thickness measurements from areas that were previously too difficult to access. While most oceanographic survey instrumen
Norwegian geophysical company, Magseis, said that the third quarter results have been negatively impacted by an extended yard stay which reduced revenues by $1.5 million as well as lower than expected production speeds. A breakdown of the rudder forced the vessel into dock and led to the vessel bein
Canada’s Husky Energy has announced the intent to award the contract for delivery of the Living Quarters for the White Rose Extension Project offshore Newfoundland to the Apply Leirvik/ GJ Cahill Partnership. The scope of work is to engineer and build a four floors living quarters totaling 3500 squa
Deep Casing Tools has announced the signing of a frame agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS. The company says that the contract covers the supply of Deep Casing Tools’ revolutionary drillable casing and liner reamer technology, including its high-speed, drillable reaming system, the Turbocaser™ Expre
Van Oord recently completed the first phase of the Port of Koper dredging project. During this deepening program, Van Oord removed approximately 230,000 m3 of sea sediments (silt), allowing larger vessels, with a draft of up to 13.5, to enter the port’s Northern part of Basin I. In addition, a new s
Bell Dredging Pumps, a Dutch company highly specialized in dredging equipment, has released a short video about their BELL 200 dredging pump. The video was made in Myanmar, near Nay Pyi Taw. A company from Myanmar bought recently the BELL 200 dredging pump, a 20 tons amphibious undercarriage with sp
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-finance with over €1.5 million the construction of the first in Europe hopper barge powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Hopper barges carrying sand dredged from ports are most often using conventional, more polluting fuel than accepted by the European regulation
After more than seven years of planning and design, Atlantis is now entering the construction phase of MeyGen’s first 6MW tranche of capacity in what the company believes to be the world’s larges planned tidal stream project. Now that the financing package has been agreed for the first four turbines
DRAGFLOW, a world player in solid pumping solutions with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing heavy duty pumps and complete dredging equipment, has introduced its newborn No Clog Pump EL60 RI, the first of the upcoming series of Recessed Impeller Pumps. The new DRAGFLOW ‘s No Clog Pump ensur
