The government-owned trailing suction hopper dredger WHEELER departed New Orleans in late November on its way to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District to perform an urgent maintenance dredging at the Freeport Harbor. The 45-day project included removal of approximately two million cubi
EFC Group, a designer and manufacturer of instrumentation, monitoring, control and handling systems for the global oil and gas industry, has completed a £1.3million ($2.2million) contract to design and build a BOP and diverter control system for China based Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co (
A collaboration between the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and GnoSys Global Ltd is supporting the development of a new insulation material for power cables to improve their performance in the onshore and offshore renewable energy industries and drive down whole life network costs. New, mo
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has successfully completed a boulder clearance and seabed preparation campaign on behalf of DONG Energy. The subsea engineering specialist cleared almost 50,000 boulders and other obstructions from 33 routes spread over a distance of 40km at the Westermost Rough wind farm
Vroon has announced that the launching has taken place, at Fujian Southeast Shipyard (FSES) in Fuzhou, China, of VOS Primrose and VOS Prince, two multi-purpose platform-supply vessels (MPSV). The vessels were launched on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 January 2015, respectively. VOS Primrose and VOS Prin
A coalition fighting highly destructive suction dredge mining is considering further legal options after a state judge ruled that a California law banning the practice is preempted by federal law. The California Supreme Court is also considering whether to take up the legal issues surrounding the st
Harland and Wolff (H&W) has announced the contract award of the dry docking and Renewal / Special Periodic Survey of the Byford Dolphin Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) by Aberdeen based Dolphin Drilling Limited. Following on the completion of its sister rig the Blackford Dolphin in 2014, the By
In partnership with New York Sea Grant, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens yesterday announced $89,000 in grants for four projects that will help Great Lakes coastal communities to increase storm resiliency and protect water quality. “New York rema
Dublin Port Company yesterday published trade statistics for 2014 which show a record year for trade at Dublin Port, with growth year-on-year of 7.0%. Total throughput for 2014 was 31 million gross tonnes with 7,108 ship arrivals in the year, bringing the port’s activity back to the record levels of
Huawei Marine, a global submarine network provider, announced the successful completion of sea trials for its second-generation Repeater, RPT 1660 R2, and Branching Unit, BU 1650 R2. Both innovative second-generation products were recently tested in the extreme winter conditions of the Atlantic Ocea
Oceaneering has entered into a two-year, multi-service vessel charter agreement with Shell for use of the Ocean Alliance in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) starting January 1, 2015. The Ocean Alliance is a U.S. flagged vessel built in 2010. It has an overall length of approximately 309 feet (94 meters
The Corps oldest dredge wrapped up another successful dredging season on the Middle Mississippi, January 8. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District’s Dredger Potter, built in 1932 during the Great Depression did not let age stand in her way as she moved more than 3.2 million cubic yards
JULONG has completed construction of a 18/16 inch cutter suction dredger for a Nigerian customer. The dredger, named PAULINA, will perform maintenance duties in and around the River States. As all JULONG cutter suction dredgers are dismantled prior to delivery, the transport was straightforward. The
ASL Environmental Sciences has a contract for a 3-year metocean-ice study program in Cook Inlet, Alaska for the proposed Alaska LNG Project terminal site. This turnkey metocean program includes program management, a PSO (protected species observer), vessel, HSE lead, data processing and analysis, an
