The Honourable Peter MacKay, Regional Minister for Nova Scotia, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, yesterday announced $3.5 million to support improvement projects at five small craft harbors in Nova Scotia. Th
Dredged materials located on the property of Pershing Park Boat Launch Basin in the city of Racine are to be removed and placed in Belle Harbor Marina, announced dnr.wi.gov. The new location also lies within the city and is owned by Racine County. The project to transport the dredged materials betwe
TGS has announced three new multi-client surveys, a 3D survey offshore Australia, a 2D survey offshore New Zealand and a 3D survey in the West of Shetland region. Nerites Season 2 is the largest 3D survey TGS has acquired to date in the Asia Pacific region and will cover 13,000 km2 in the Great Aust
SeaBird Exploration Plc has announced that Aquila Explorer has received a letter of award for a 2D seismic survey in Australasia. The survey will cover a minimum of 10,000 km and will have an estimated value of approximately $11 million. The project is expected to start in Q4 2014 and will have an e
According to the first Santee Cooper coal ash removal report released this week, Santee Cooper has removed over 42,000 tons from its unlined coal ash lagoons on the banks of the Waccamaw River in Conway, South Carolina. The removal is part of a settlement reached between Santee Cooper and citizen gr
Dolphin Geophysical has been awarded a contract from TGS for Nerites Season 2 located in the Bight’s deep water Ceduna Sub-basin in Australia, covering 13.000 sq.km. The initial Season 1 was carried out by Polar Duchess and she will return together with a second Dolphin high-capacity vessel in Q4 20
Mott MacDonald, together with consortium partners Centre for Development Management from Malawi and LTS of the UK, has been appointed on the first phase of the Shire River Basin Management Program by Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development. The World Bank financed project
19 dredging vessels led by CSD “D’Artagnan” departed the Port of Murmansk on July 27 and are now on their way to the Port of Sabetta. The Sabetta dredging project will be executed by a fleet of dredgers recruited by subcontractor LLC Mordraga from around the world. Among them will be: a cutter sucti
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap ASA a drilling permit for wellbore 34/7-36 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. Wellbore 34/7-36 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig after completing drilling of wildcat well 31/10-1 for Tullow Oil
Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent have successfully completed a field trial on the existing Apollo South system, which connects France to the United States, achieving the transmission of 7.2 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) of data per fiber pair, based on 100 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) technology. Made possib
Subsea Cables UK, the trade association for submarine power and telecommunications cables for the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, has announced that its 43rd Plenary will be held at The Essex Golf & Country Club, Colchester, UK, hosted by Zytech Ltd. The Plenary will be held over 1.5 days on the
Rohr International Dredge Holdings, Inc. acquired Eurl Rohr France, including its current backlog, inventory and all associated intellectual property (IPR), on July 23, 2014. Rohr France, which is based in Betting, France, was a Rohr licensee and will continue at the same location, operating as a su
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research’s (IMR) has issued a tender invitation for the supply of new electro-optical cables. The cables will be used for its MUST system on the “G.O. Sars” research vessel. MUST (Multi-Usage System for Towed vehicle) is used for mapping and volume measurement of fi
Work has recently started at the Port of Felixstowe on the latest expansion of the UK’s largest container port. VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the lead contactor to extend the port’s Berth 9 by 190 metres. The work will increase the c
