IBERDROLA has launched the pile testing campaign for its Wikinger offshore wind farm project following the completion of the site’s geotechnical investigation on the Baltic Sea. German engineering and services group Bilfinger and its experienced subcontractors are carrying out the tests in order to
DCNS, a partner of the Ocean Energy Europe conference, the European forum for the sector, which is taking place on 1st and 2nd October 2014 in Paris, will present its expertise in marine energy. Marine energy is a sector in which the Group has been investing since 2008 resulting in several successes
A program to monitor and improve the health of North Queensland waterways from the rivers to the Reef was launched in Mackay today. Chief Executive of the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) Michael Roche, who was at the launch, said that the QRC was proud to be a financial contributor to get off the
Dredging works in Sabetta are being implemented in more challenging environment than a year ago. The dredging vessels arrived within the planed period on August 1, 2014, while the marine survey and full package of environmental engineering survey had been completed by that time so that the vessels c
ABB, a power and automation technology group, has won an order from Armada Kraken Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Bumi Armada Berhad, a Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider. ABB will provide power and automation technologies for the floating, production, storage and offloading (
Nova RMF from Napa, California, has won a $9.3 million for firm-fixed-price task order under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract for maintenance dredging of piers at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. The work to be performed provides for maintenance dredging of surrounding piers
The oil from DONG Energy’s oil fields in the North Sea: Siri, Nini, Nini East, Cecilie and Stine-1, is now sent directly to the oil tank below the Siri platform. This takes place after completion of extensive repair work lasting several years.
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement with an international oil company worth USD 3.7 million, after adjustment for partner’s share of the revenues, for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. The multi-client
Plexus Holdings PLC has received a purchase order (PO) from BG Group (UK) to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the UK Continental Shelf in the North Sea. Under the terms of the PO contract, which is expected to have a duration of 150 days, Plexus will
Maintenance dredging of a portion of Little Narragansett Bay in Westerly, Rhode Island and Stonington, Connecticut will be completed under the terms of a $1.4 contract awarded recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Work will be accomplished by H&L Contracting, LLC, of Ba
OceanWorks International has taken the delivery of node pod #3 from CSnet for the purpose of refurbishment and upgrade to the latest standard. CSnet’s OCB subsea infrastructure, including five seafloor nodes which form the existing seafloor observatory portion of the system, was originally designed
Repairs to the east jetty of the Block Island Harbor of Refuge in Block Island, Rhode Island, will be completed under the terms of a $3.4 million contract awarded recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. Work will be accomplished by HK&S Construction Holding Corp., of Newp
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck will join today Marc Matsil of the Trust for Public Land and Richard Nicotra of the Nicotra Group to highlight the importance of wetlands in protecting communities from the dangers of severe storms such as Hurricane Sandy
United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced recently in federal court, before Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox, that David Wayne Luther, 63, of Surf City, North Carolina, entered a guilty plea to violating the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act. According to informa
