The Baltic Fuel Company Group (BFC) has received approval and permits from the St. Petersburg City Administration for creation of artificial lands of Turukhtannye Islands Oil Terminal. St. Petersburg City Administration has approved area planning documentation of land reclamation for expansion of Ma
The latest Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition was launched today at the NOC in Southampton, making £1.5 million available to UK businesses to develop novel adaptive autonomous ocean sampling network (AOSN) management systems. The competition, run by the Natural Environment Researc
The New Suez Canal Project is moving ahead. Around 17.5 million cubic meters of material have been dug so far. The digging works were divided into 33 sectors and assigned to specialized civil companies and two road divisions of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority. The project will boost Egypt’s e
Planet Ocean have been appointed as UK and Ireland distributors for the Canadian Deep Trekker range of remotely operated vehicles. The innovative DTG2 ROV is powered by on-board rechargeable batteries negating the need for a bulky surface power supply, Deep Trekker offers many advantages over the ty
JDR has won a new contract with VBMS for the Statoil/Statkraft Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Dudgeon, off the UK’s Norfolk coast will utilise over 95 kilometres of JDR’s copper core inter-array cable and a range of cable accessories. The design and manufacture will take place at JDR’s UK bases in Camb
The International Marine Contractors Association will be holding a subsea fibre & hybrid rope seminar in Amsterdam on Wednesday 29 October, which will enable attendees to fully understand, and become involved with the discussion on, what is required by the subsea construction industry. This includes
Royal IHC is constructing the first vessel in its range of competitively priced standard trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD). It has started to build the Easydredge™ 2700 for stock in response to the increasing global demand for TSHDs with an extremely short delivery time. The new vessel will be
BW Offshore, a Norway-based provider of floating production services to the oil and gas industry, has signed a 5-year, $12 million contract with Orange Business Services for an end-to-end satellite communication solution for its fleet of highly-specialized oil and gas production vessels. With a flee
Jersey Electricity has informed that its 10-year project to install a third interconnector to France and adjoining land cables is now almost complete. After a long and complex planning process, this year has seen the safe and successful installation of the 32km, 100MW subsea cable from Armanville to
Kier has agreed a new £25m per annum contract with the Canal & River Trust to carry out important engineering and construction works on the nation’s 200-year-old canal network. The National Engineering & Construction Contract (NECC) will initially run for six years, with options to extend up to a ma
SAACKE Marine Systems said it will supply an integrated system consisting of a gas combustion unit (GCU), with a capacity of 3.5 tons per hour, and an SSB-LCG burner for gases with fluctuating heat values for two LNG tankers to be built by Imabari Shipbuilding of Japan. All the GCU components were d
The Irrigation Department and Prachuap Khirikhan Province have united to resolve sewage problems in Khao Ta Reservoir, following a Royal Initiative Project, by dredging the ground and increasing the amount of oxygen dissolved in the water for improved quality in the future. The Irrigation Department
QED Naval, a provider of consultancy services to the marine renewable energy sector and technical support to the Subhub Platform, has welcomed a new member of staff into the ranks. Aris Zavvos who has recently joined has a Sustainable Energy Systems Master degree and a PhD in Electrical Engineering
Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Hisham Ramez announced on Sunday issuance of investment certificates for the New Suez Canal Project. Ramez said that Cabinet’s economic group has agreed on issuing investment certificates of the New Suez Canal project and that the issue was raised to Presi
