The Joint Venture comprising of Cashman Dredging Inc. and Dutra Group was awarded last week a $122.2 million Boston Harbor dredging contract. According to FedBizOpps, the project includes dredging of approximately 11,700,000 cubic yards of silt, blue clay, till and weathered rock from the harbor are
Norwegian vessel owner Eidesvik has been awarded a contract with Saipem for the PSV “Viking Queen” to support the pipe-laying vessel “Castorone”. Castorone will be engaged in laying pipes from the Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea to Mongstad and Kårstø oil and gas termin
Construction works continued this month on the new sea lock at IJmuiden, the Netherlands, with the new control building slowly beginning to take shape, reports the Port of Amsterdam. The control building (no. 1 in the picture) is starting to take shape by now. The lock gate chambers (no. 2 in the pi
Russian LNG export player Novatek signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian national oil company, for cooperation on international projects including LNG.
Offshore Wind Consultants Limited (OWC) has signed a contract with ScottishPower Renewable to carry out an offshore readiness assessment to ensure East Anglia ONE is ready to complete the offshore works in an efficient and safe manner.
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) is set to provide offshore construction readiness assessment for the ScottishPower Renewables East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. OWC, part of Aqualis, will conduct an offshore readiness assessment to ensure the project is ready to complete the offshore work. The futu
Rigmar Group, comprising Rigmar Services and Interocean Marine Services, has recently expanded its engineering department with the addition of naval architects and project engineers to meet demand following several contract awards. Kiran Chandrasekharan has joined Interocean as senior naval architec
UK-based oil company EnQuest has further reduced capital expenditure for its Kraken project in the North Sea and is now expected to be more than 25% lower than originally sanctioned cost of $3.2 billion.
Beach nourishment works along the 2.9 miles of shoreline from the “Haulover” north of Buxton to the oceanfront groin at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Dare County are now in its final phase, according to county officials. Weeks Marine recently reported that over 2.3 million cubic yards of sand has
Aker Energy, a 50-50 joint venture between Aker and TRG, has entered into an agreement with Hess Corporation to acquire a 50 percent participating interest in the Deepwater Tano Cape Three Points block (DWT/CTP) offshore Ghana. The total cash consideration for the transaction is USD 100 million, con
Diamond Offshore-owned Ocean Monarch drilling rig has started preparations to mobilize from offshore Fremantle to the Otway Basin offshore Victoria for Cooper Energy’s drilling campaign.
SeaBird Exploration has signed an agreement to provide a source vessel for an upcoming survey in West Africa. The project is expected to start during Q1 and will have a duration of approximately 60 days. SeaBird will be using the Osprey Explorer for the project. Osprey Explorer, a 2D long offset/sou
STATS Group is celebrating two decades in business with the award of its largest contract to date. The pipeline technology specialist, formed in Aberdeen in 1998, has secured a contract worth close to $20 million (£14.2 million) with a Middle East national operating company. The workscope includes p
France’s GTT, the maker of LNG containment systems, said it had received several orders since the beginning of the year, including for the equipment of three LNG carriers and one bunkering vessel. The three LNGCs, offering capacities ranging from 174,000 to 180,000 cbm, will be built at Samsung Heav
