Canvassing for the nation’s future engineering talent starts through community outreach programs, and the district seized the opportunity to showcase a variety of Corps missions to approximately 160 engineering students at Jenkins High School in Savannah. Corps volunteers participated as part of Nat
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, has completed maintenance dredging of problem areas of the federal navigation channel and two port berthing areas in the Snake and Clearwater rivers where accumulated sediment had interfered with navigation. Dredging was performed to meet a cur
After a few weeks of final adjustments to HYPACK® 2015, the new software has been officially released. The software offers users cutting-edge technology including Real-time Point Cloud visualization, and multibeam and water column data integration and playback. As leader in the hydrographic and dred
INTECSEA has been selected by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to provide engineering and long-lead procurement services for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of the Buckskin/Moccasin development in the Gulf of Mexico. The award comes as an integrated WorleyParsons and INTECSEA team recently comp
Atlantic Marine’s multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) UT705 Atlantic Carrier, was converted into the latest cutting edge technology cable ship. The vessel was specifically converted in 2014 for inter array cable lay operations on UK North Sea wind farm. The 82.3 meters LOA vessel has a 770 square met
Prysmian has reported a drop in earnings for the full year 2014. Italy’s cables manufacturer said its full year adjusted net profit amounted to 186 million euros. Excluding the adverse impact of the Western Link project (€66 million net of tax effects), adjusted net profit would have been €252 milli
KAMPS, a Belgian company specialized in water treatment solutions, has released a video about its dredging pontoon named Drag’oon. In lagoons, some lakes and ponds, the organic sludge settles in the bottom, reducing the volume of the water ponds. More important, when this sludge is not stabilized it
Orion Marine Group, Inc., a heavy civil marine contractor, today reported net income for the three months ended December 31, 2014, of $5.3 million ($0.19 diluted earnings per share). For the full year 2014, Orion Marine Group reported net income of $6.9 million ($0.25 diluted earnings per share), wh
French seismic contractor CGG announced additional cost reduction plans and further downsizing of its fleet as it falls victim to deterioration in market conditions. In the fourth quarter 2014 (Q4 2014), CGG generated revenues of $ 906 million, down 5 percent year-on-year and up 31% sequentially. Fu
Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, recently deployed its first dredging vessels to the New Suez Canal project. At the moment, they have three vessels in operation, two stationary cutter suction dredgers and the large self-propelled cutter suction
In February, 18 Engineers of Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (DWASA) successfully completed the ‘Urban Dredging: Planning and Management Training for Officers’. Now, the trainees are perfectly capable of performing, preparing, planning and managing any dredging project under the UDDP methods
L-3 SAM Electronics has been awarded a contract to retrofit propulsion control and automation systems aboard the Taiwanese Navy’s ‘Ta Kuan’ hydrographic and oceanographic research vessel. The 93-metre-long vessel, built by Fincantieri at its shipyard in Muggiano, La Spezia, Italy in 1995, carries ou
VolkerWessels UK group businesses VolkerFitzpatrick, VolkerStevin and VolkerGround Engineering have been named finalists in three categories of the Ground Engineering Awards 2015. Established to recognize excellence in the ground engineering industry, the Ground Engineering Awards assess technical a
Scottish tidal turbine developer, Nautricity, has secured a grid connected tidal test berth at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), following successful sea trials at EMEC’s non-grid connected site last year. In 2014, Nautricity tested its CoRMaT tidal energy converter and Hydrobuoy mooring sys
