Siemens AG has revealed plans to establish a manufacturing and service facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The manufacturing facility will include the local production of gas turbines and rotating equipment, a repair workshop and service facilities for the Saudi Arabian and Middle East market.
Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii has announced the signing of a contract with VT Halter Marine for the construction of a ship to enter the Hawaii/mainland USA trade lane. The ship’s base price is US$144 million and is due for delivery in the third quarter of 2013. The new ship will be the second vessel t
To make the Calabar seaport viable and busy all year round, the federal government should implement a deliberate policy of diverting smaller vessels from Lagos and other ports prone to congestion to Calabar. General manager of Eco-Marine Plc, Kingsley Iheanacho, said the lack of some basic facilitie
On February 17, 2011, a round table session “Environmentally Safe Engineering and Process Solutions for Offshore Oil and Gas Fields Development in the Barents Sea” was held at the Federal Council. The round table was attended by Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Federal Council of RF Federal Assembly,
On behalf of Tullow Netherlands BV, ADTI has awarded a contract for the provision of Base and Marine Services Offshore Netherlands to ASCO Logistics (Holland) BV IJmuiden. Early February 2011 the contract has been awarded for a duration of three years with two one year options. Plans are to drill 8
The port of Gothenburg Car Terminal will become the latest facility in the port to be handed over to a private operator. The port authority today signed a 10-year concession agreement with the Swedish logistics company Logent, which will operate the terminal as “Gothenburg Car Terminal AB”. The move
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) has signed a Letter of Award with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for the delivery of two Ramform W-class vessels, with the option for another two ships. The vessels are the first in the new, fifth generation Ramform series. Planned deliveries of the two first vesse
Business is brisk at Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard, where the Titanic and her sister ships were built. A century later it is the booming offshore wind-power industry that has taken centre stage.. “People know us as a shipbuilder and that accounted for almost 100pc of our business as recently as
The heavy lift offshore crane, type CAL 64000 – 1500 Litronic®, specially developed by Liebherr for the company BELUGA HOCHTIEF Offshore, will be applied from 2012 on the INNOVATION, a special jack-up vessel for the quicker assembly of offshore wind power stations. With this innovative jack-up vesse
AXSON Technologies, specialising in the formulation and manufacture of epoxy and polyurethane resins, is opening a new production plant in China for the dielectrics and wind turbine market moving closer to PSA, Nissan, Valeo and Schneider. “This new plant will see us triple and even quadruple our pr
AB Volvo Penta and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd have decided to set up joint working groups to evaluate the potential for deeper collaboration between the companies. On December 6, Volvo Penta and Yamaha Motor announced that they had signed an agreement involving technological collaboration relating to the
Transeuro Energy Corp. announced it has successfully drilled to the logging depth of 3,507 metres in the ‘C16’ Cretaceous interval. Logging operations are now ongoing to acquire the standard set of wireline logs, plus a log to identify the location and orientation of natural fractures in the rock, a
A beach restoration project that began in the beginning of January is moving along steadily, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… BY LAURA DIGNAN (delmarvanow) [mappress] Source: delmarvanow, February 18, 2011;
The past week has not been kind for renewable energy operators in Ontario. By John Spears (thestar) [mappress] Source: thestar , February 18, 2011
