A recent press event at Volvo Construction Equipment’s Konz facility has not only unveiled the company’s latest EC250E crawler excavator, but also gone behind the scenes at one of Germany’s ‘top national employers’. Journalists gathered in early April for a ‘Made in Germany’ event at Volvo Construct
Paradigm® announced that Todd Energy, a leading energy provider in New Zealand, has acquired a comprehensive suite of the company’s seismic interpretation, formation evaluation and reservoir modeling software solutions. A major factor in Todd Energy’s decision to adopt the Paradigm solution suite is
Queensland’s lax environmental assessment practices continue to present threats to the environment and the economy, causing fears for how major development on the Great Barrier Reef will be managed, said the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS). The Department of Environment and Heritage Pr
Detailed environmental and planning studies for the Port of Hastings container expansion will soon be underway with specialist consultants now appointed. Minister for Ports David Hodgett announced the milestone after a six month procurement period to ensure the right contractors were on board to dev
Neptune Marine Services Ltd has been awarded a survey and ROV contract by McDermott on the Ichthys LNG Project. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for the subsea umbilical, riser, flowline project for INPEX. Expected to commence early May, the initial phase will include pre-lay survey of the
The Army Corps of Engineers’ Mountain Home Project Office will suspend shoreline activity requests for Bull Shoals Lake beginning May 23 until December 31, 2015 to establish a baseline of the lake for officials to use while revising its 40-year-old master plan. Shoreline activity requests will not b
Television commercials urging Australians to become informed about the true environmental health of the Great Barrier Reef will begin screening nationally tomorrow. The commercials are authorised by the Queensland Resources Council in the wake of an admitted ‘scaremongering’ campaign by environmenta
WFS Technologies has announced the launch of 2 additions to the Seatooth®S100 product family – the Seatooth® S100 OEM and Seatooth® S100 Development Kit. Seatooth® S100 OEM is a compact, radio modem/multiplexer/data logger/controller designed for integration with subsea instrumentation, vehicles, di
On April 23, Sincronia, SSI’s representative for ShipConstructor software in Brazil, is sponsoring the first seminar focused on the shipbuilding and offshore construction cluster in the state of Pernambuco. Estaleiro Atlântico Sul and the American Bureau of Shipping are co-sponsors of this event whi
Romica Engineering has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Precision Control Technologies providing Romica’s worldwide customer base assured through life support covering motion control and heave compensation systems. The establishment of this formal alliance provides PCT’s expertise and trai
Dredging continues in the Brewerton Channel which leads to the Baltimore Marine Terminals through the Fort McHenry channel. Dredge 51 is currently manned and operated by Great Lakes Dredge and Dock from Oakbrook, Illinois, and will continue dredging the area over the next few months. The dredged mat
After the recent sail away from Heerema Vlissingen, Siemens’ HelWin beta jacket arrived at its location in the German North Sea where the installation started by the semi-submersible construction vessel ‘Thialf’. Heerema Fabrication Group informed that the installation of the 4,500 t HelWin beta jac
The American Chemical Society has published a paper on a new way to harvest wave energy. Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems at Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology gave their contribution to this report, which loo
The City of Marikina dredging scheme is moving forward. In this video, an IMS Model 5012 LP Versi-Dredge is cleaning silt, sand, and debris from the waterway flowing through the city. The Versi-Dredge will deepen the river and help mitigate flooding events that have been notorious for damaging priva
