U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Richard Blumenthal, and Chris Murphy yesterday announced a key Senate committee’s passage of legislation to bring federal dollars to support the restoration of Long Island Sound. The Long Island Sound Stewardship Act that Senators Gillibrand, Sch
Wood Group Kenny Pty Ltd (WGK) and TRAC Oil & Gas Pty Ltd (TRAC) have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the provision of integrated integrity management, inspection, verification, non-destructive testing (NDT) and rope access solutions to conventional oil, coal seam gas (CSG), fl
The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA study were among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium and nickel ever measured in the history of NOAA’s National Status & Trends, a nationwide contaminant monitoring program that began in 1986. Res
U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, announced the passage of the bipartisan North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (NAWCA) through the EPW Committee. NAWCA will reauthorize the program to protect and restore wetlands in all 50 sta
Ellicott Dredge Enterprises has announced two major personnel changes to its senior management team. Gert de Vries has joined as Senior Director of Engineering, in which capacity he will be supporting the engineering departments of all of Ellicott’s brands, principally Ellicott and Rohr-Idreco. “He
Dharti Dredging and Infrastructure Ltd. (DDIL), the largest provider of dredging services in the India, has won the contract for the capital dredging works at the New South Oil Jetty dock basin at Paradip Port. This contract was awarded to DDIL by the Paradip Port Trust (PPT), Paradip, the state of
Lankhorst Euronete Brazil (LEB), a subsidiary of WireCo® WorldGroup based in Queimados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and specializing in the manufacturing of synthetic ropes for the offshore and maritime markets, has entered into a contract with SOFEC, Inc., to provide the complete supply of polyester lin
Lankhorst Euronete Brazil (LEB) has entered into a contract with SOFEC, Inc., to provide the complete supply of polyester lines for the mooring of FPSO Cidade de Itaguaí MV26. SOFEC, a subsidiary of MODEC, Inc., has awarded LEB to produce the polyester spread mooring system based on LEB’s Cabral 512
Seattle based BioSonics Inc., a manufacturer of scientific echosounders, announced the appointment of SUBSEA 20/20, Inc. as their exclusive worldwide sales and marketing agency. SUBSEA 20/20 was recently founded by Eric Munday, former BioSonics Director of Sales and Marketing. BioSonics echosounders
The South Baltic Conference on Dredged Materials in Dike Construction will take place in Rostock / Hohe Düne, 10-11 April 2014. The conference is organised in the frame of the project DredgDikes in which the application of dredged materials in dike construction is investigated. There are a variety o
The business success of subsea specialist ROVOP has been industry applauded after the company won the New Enterprise accolade at last night’s (Wednesday 5 February) Subsea UK business awards. Subsea UK’s coveted New Enterprise award, which represents the fourth industry accolade that ROVOP has won,
Crowd Energy, having completed construction and successful testing of its first generation prototype of the Ocean Energy Turbine, will launch a major Kickstarter campaign in March 2014 to construct a second generation turbine and move the project to (SNMREC) Southeast National Marine Renewable Energ
The Union Government has set up a committee to review the Greenfield Port development proposal, located at Tadadi in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. The Committee suggested development of Tadadi initially as a barge port for 4 meter draft vessels and subsequently as a Major Port when there is
AML Oceanographic (AML) has partnered with OSIL to offer XchangeTM sensor recalibration services at OSIL’s facilities in the UK. With a European recalibration centre, field swappable sensor heads become even more convenient for European users of oceanographic instrumentation. OSIL is expected to beg
