The LMOA dredging program will soon expand by offering dredging to lakefront homeowners (for a fee). The plan is to incorporate homeowner dredging into the schedule rotation for normal maintenance dredging in the major coves… [mappress] Source:charlottesvillerealestatenews,April 20,2010;
Duluth, MN – No more will ships leave Minnesota’s Great Lakes ports with less than full loads once Congress passes legislation introduced last week. Senate Bill 3213 requires the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (“HMTF”) to spend what it takes in each year rather than amass a surplus that is used to pa
Vanco, along with partners Lukoil and the state oil company Petroci, has completed drilling the Orca exploration well offshore the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, reporting the well has proved the Orca prospect “highly promising.” Drilled to a total depth of 4,015 meters in waters measuring 1,868 meters
Exxon Mobil Corp. has set another record, and this time it has nothing to do with its annual profits. The Irving-based oil giant said it has drilled the world’s longest extended-reach well from a drilling rig on a fixed offshore platform — in, of all places, California. The well extends more than si
AWE Limited reports that at 0600 hours (NZ Time) today, the Hoki-1 well, located in exploration permit PEP 38401 in the offshore Taranaki Basin, was at a measured depth of 3,428 metres and was drilling ahead. The well intersected the target North Cape Formation sands overnight, but these were not as
Polarcus Limited held the naming ceremony for the Company’s third and most sophisticated 3D seismic vessel yet, POLARCUS ASIMA. The ceremony was held at the Drydocks World – Dubai shipyard in the United Arab Emirates and was attended by over 200 local and international guests. POLARCUS ASIMA is a pu
Hydraulics engineering firm Norson Power has been acquired by mechanical services company EnerMech Ltd in an £11 million deal. Founded in 1974 in Aberdeen, Norson Power provides hydraulic pipework installation and designs and manufactures hydraulic equipment for the oil, gas and marine industries. E
Bibby Offshore Limited, the Aberdeen-based provider of subsea construction and offshore management services, today announced that it has acquired the dive support vessel (DSV), Bibby Sapphire, from the vessel’s present owner, Volstad Subsea AS. A £34million loan facility has been provided by Standar
Dana Petroleum has said that it has made a ‘significant gas discovery’ at the Platypus prospect in the UK Southern North Sea. The Dana operated 48/1a-5 well was drilled in a water depth of approximately 142ft to a total measured depth of 11,048ft, targeting a high quality Rotliegend age, Lower Leman
“Limitless” is a new 28.7m catamaran offshore support boat built for Offshore Unlimited in Hobart, Tasmania. The design is based on Incat Crowther’s recent successes in catamaran workboat design, utilising their high carrying capacity hullforms and capitalising on their experience to develop durable
Give birth to our nation’s dreams of clean, plentiful electricity from the wind here, in the offshore waters of Saginaw Bay.
„IT is the Gold Coast’s most valuable piece of real estate and we do almost nothing for it.“ That was the opinion of countless Gold Coast political and business leaders,plus marine industry members when asked about the ongoing battle to have the State Government commit to fixing the Broadwater… [map
A two-week trial is set to begin today to determine who pays to clean up Big Spring Creek outside of Lewistown — decades after cancer-causing chemicals were first detected in wild trout in that area. The renowned trout stream was contaminated for years as paint laden with polychlorinated biphenyl… [
Australia is planning to subject commercial ships passing through all parts of the Great Barrier Reef to greater surveillance. The tough new measures are intended to protect the region from pollution.
