The development of the Bøyla Field (PL 340) located close to the Alvheim Area has passed an important milestone towards first oil. The subsea manifolds for the Bøyla Field are now completed and being transported for installation in the North Sea. Marathon Oil Norge AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of M
A slurry of sand and water is pumped from a nearby dredge onto Monmouth Beach, where it is moved into place by a bulldozer during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ ongoing beach renourishment work in Monmouth Beach, N.J. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is repairing and restoring previously construc
With a grant of over €1.6 million from the TEN-T Program, the European Union will support a project to modernise the Seine River in France in order to improve the economic efficiency and competitiveness of inland navigation in the region. The project, selected for funding under the 2012 TEN-T Annual
Singapore’s Marine Contracting Pte Ltd has been awarded a contract to replace mooring and flexible riser systems on the “FPF-003” FPSO, located at the Jasmine Field offshore Thailand. The contract has been awarded by Petrofac, and, according to a press release issued by Marine Contracting, the offsh
The Milford Pond Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration program is scheduled for August 2014, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District. In order to restore open water habitat suitable for resident fish species and water birds, this project will involve dredging of about 250,000 cub
ABB, the Swiss-based power and automation technology group, has been awarded a $175 million contract to upgrade the power generation capacity at Zirku oil and gas processing facilities in the Gulf. The order, which covers engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), was awarded by Zakum Developm
The 2014 WEDA Midwest Chapter meeting will be held on April 9th and 11th, 2014 in Cincinnati, OH at the Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati. Topics of this meeting will include sediment investigation, environmental and navigational dredging, shoreline protection and restoration, sediment managem
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has finished successful sea trials of their new 30m Giant Piston Corer, supplied by UK-based OSIL, for their new vessel the RV Samudra Ratnakar. The Giant Piston Corer is capable of achieving varying core lengths of up to 42m in soft, cohesive sediments and muds,
Radius Oceanic Communications, Inc., and Cyta have announced testing and commissioning are complete on the Poseidon submarine cable system, a fiber optic network built to serve the oil and gas and scientific markets in the Eastern Mediterranean. Radius and its regional telecom partner, Cyta have als
On February 27, the preliminary field investigation of Abidjan Port Expansion Project officially commenced. This project is the largest port construction program in Cote d’Ivoire at the moment. On January 11, 2013, CHEC and Cote d’Ivoire signed the EPC business agreement with a contract amount of ov
Unique System FZE introduced the new DIVE MK2 underwater gauge from Cygnus Instruments in the Middle East region. Unique system FZE is the authorized distributor of Cygnus products for the entire Middle East region. Founded in 1983, Cygnus pioneered the digital multiple echo technique. The technique
Hitachi, Ltd. has delivered six sets of centrifugal compressors for a Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading system (FPSO) for Brazil’s oil company Petrobras. Hitachi received an order from Modec and Toyo Offshore Production Systems (“MTOPS“) for these compressors in January 2013. This is the
Cowes Harbour Master Capt. Stuart McIntosh and Iain Roberts, Maritime Engineer at Atkins, attended at the recent physical modelling tests for the Cowes breakwater, carried out at the specialist Deltares hydrodynamic test centre in Delft, the Netherlands, on 20th March. They were joined throughout th
Representatives Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and Steve Israel (NY-3) led a group of 20 representatives in requesting $10 million for protection and restoration efforts in the Long Island Sound. The request was sent to the top members of the subcommittee responsible for funding the Interior Department. “With
