The Galveston beach renourishment project, using about 725,000 cubic yards of sand dredged from the Galveston Ship Channel, is creating new beaches from 61st Street to 103rd Street, an area in front of the seawall that has been without a beach for decades. The $23 million project is a collaborative
CGG announced that Sercel has launched GeoTag, the acoustic positioning solution for seabed seismic acquisition. GeoTag can be used to accurately position all types of Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC), Ocean Bottom Node and Transition Zone cable systems for seabed seismic surveys in water depths down to 500
The naming ceremony of the 1.840 m³ twin screw trailing suction hopper dredger “MAHURY” will take place at MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria, on October 29, 2015. The new dredger is Dutch Dredging’s fourth IHC-built vessel, after the ALBATROS, LESSE and AMAZONE. The vessel is equipped with the
SBM Offshore has been awarded the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract from Technip for three, large-scale turret mooring systems associated with the proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development in Australia. The contract awarded to SBM Offshore covers the FEED eleme
Picture of the Day: Vox Maxima in Indonesia Vox Maxima, Van Oord’s largest trailing suction hopper dredging vessel, recently started the dredging operations for the creation of Pluit City, an artificial island in the bay of Jakarta, Indonesia. Ellicott Dredges to Restore Prime Hook Two Ellicott [&
Optical Metrology Services (OMS) has completed a series of more than 10,000 pipe end measurements for the Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore Project in Angola. The work involved end dimensioning, numbering and colour banding of deepsea, fatigue-critical flowline pipe, Steel Catenary Risers and long seam wel
An Italian manufacturer of specifically designed dredging and mining applications, Italdraghe will be taking part at the Europort exhibition for maritime technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. There, the company will present their range of products, recently launched products, dredging technologi
Carnegie Wave Energy informed that the conceptual design phase of its CETO 6 Project at Garden Island has now been completed. This CETO 6 design delivers a number of advantages over previous CETO generations including an approximate four times increase in rated capacity to 1MW, the removal of heavy
GTT informed it has secured an order for two LNG carriers, to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
Gardner Technologies, an established Kongsberg Maritime sales partner in the USA, has expanded its sales activity for Kongsberg Mesotech underwater acoustic products into North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. GTI is already responsible for sales in Delaware, Washington DC, M
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo will form an alliance to develop the next generation in subsea compression systems. According to a statement by Aker Solutions on Friday, the new subsea systems could be used at even the smallest oil and gas fields to increase recovery and lower costs compared w
UAE-based Horizon Geosciences has commissioned an additional two Sonardyne GyroUSBL acoustic positioning systems to complement the systems they currently work with. The new equipment will be used to support subsea construction projects across the Middle East. Horizon has adopted GyroUSBL for its mar
The Brazilian MACSEA has signed a contract with Danish EIVA to include software and hardware solutions from EIVA into the MACSEA product portfolio. “We are seeing an increasing interest in our solutions at the moment in Brazil, as a result of a large number of ongoing and planned offshore activities
Jumbo’s Heavy Lift Vessel (HLV) Fairplayer has arrived in Brazil, carrying three FPSO modules for Estaleiros Do Brasil (EBR). According to Jumbo, the FPSO modules were loaded in Thailand and will be discharged in São José do Rio Norte, Brazil. Project Manager Boudewijn van der Garden said: “Fairplay
