St. Charles Mayor Patti York is seeking up to $80 million in federal funds to carve a canal between the Missouri River shore and Bangert Island to help boost a plan for a mammoth commercial/residential project nearby.The request was made public during a briefing Monday… [mappress] Source:interact.st
The Department of Defence and the Royal Australian Navy plan to start dredging sediment at Garden Island by the end of this month. The site was last dredged in 1999. The sediment has been classed as “solid waste” according to the Defence Department but may also be contaminated with… [mappress] Sourc
Florida environmental officials tentatively approved plans Tuesday to dredge Mayport Naval Station’s basin and navigation channel to handle larger ships. Dredging to make the basin 52 feet deep is one in a series of steps that have to be completed before a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can be bas
THE new Mersey Ports dredger Shoalway will be named at Liverpool Cruise Terminal on Friday. Shoalway will be sponsored by Patricia Hodgson, wife of Peel Ports Mersey managing director Gary Hodgson, at midday. The 90m long suction dredger is owned by Westminster Dredging Co and replaces bucket dredge
Indonesian port operator Pelindo II will develop a new hub port in Karawang, West Java, Bisnis Indonesia reported. The new port will have an annual capacity of 10 million TEUs. The state-owned enterprise (SOE) will prepare around US$667 million to develop and operate the port within 5-10 years… [map
A contract for post-lay rock placement for the Nord Stream Project has been awarded to the Dutch joint venture Boskalis-Tideway Offshore. The value of the contract is about 100 million euros. This work is scheduled to start in 2011 and will be completed in 2012… [mappress] Source:oilandgaseurasia,Ap
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin dredging operations early next week in response to an incident early Thursday morning about 3 miles upstream of Grafton near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. According to officials with the corps’ St. Louis District, a 15-barge… [mapp
No visitor in Korea this week will be more excited to see the completed 33.9-km-long seawall on the country’s southwestern coast than Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. The Saemangeum land reclamation project was recently finished after nearly two decades of work… [mappress] Source:koreatime
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has notified a federal engineering agency that its plans to dredge a shoal off the St. Augustine Inlet could be linked to severe beach erosion several miles to its north in Vilano and South Ponte Vedra beaches. Nelson, D-Fla., wrote the Jacksonville district commander of the Ar
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search on Friday for 11 workers missing after an oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week. The 11 workers — who were likely on the deck of the oil rig in the vicinity of the explosion — are presumed dead, the Coast Guard […]
Saudi-based Shoaibi Group, a leading provider of oil and gas technology products and services, has appointed David Malone, a former Schlumberger executive, as its new chief technology officer. Malone, who has spent over 25 years at Schlumberger, will lead Shoaibi Group investment activities in oil a
As a major oil spill in waters off Louisiana tripled in size Monday, a growing task force kept trying and failing to plug a leaking well… [mappress] SanFranciscoChronicle,April 27, 2010;
Ensco plc announced today that a subsidiary of the Company has sold ENSCO 57, a F&G L-780 MOD II-C design jackup drilling rig built in the early 1980s. The sale price was approximately $47 million. As of 31 March 2010, the net book value for ENSCO 57 was approximately $30 million. The rig will be [&
A federal judge ruled that New Jersey’s lawsuit opposing dredging of the Delaware River shipping channel by the Army Corps of Engineers should be heard in the Garden State. The Corps of Engineers had sought to have the case moved to Delaware, where a judge ruled in February that the project could be
