Belgian dredging specialist DEME has secured a contract from the Chevron-led Angola LNG project. Angola LNG awarded a 5-year maintenance dredging contract to DEME for its LNG export terminal located in Soyo. Works will start by mid of June 2017, DEME said in a statement on Friday without revealing a
Norwegian oil major Statoil has posted a video on its YouTube channel showing the departure of the first module for the Mariner topside from South Korea. The Mariner module left the DSME yard in South Korea on May 2 onboard the heavy transport vessel Forte. It is now on its way to the Mariner oilfie
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) signed an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea to support safety in the development of a conceptual FLNG design.
Fugro has been awarded a total of six contracts by the National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA) to provide hydrographic surveys in Papua New Guinea . The surveys will be conducted utilizing a combination of Fugro’s airborne LiDAR bathymetry (ALB) and multibeam echo sounder (MBES) sensors. In deeper
Royal IHC and Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging have signed a contract for the construction of a custom-built 2,300m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The decision to invest in a new addition to the Baggerbedrijf de Boer fleet was based on the success of IHC-built TSHDs ALBATROS and MAHU
Able UK, a specialist for decommissioning and disposal of offshore oil and gas structures, has posted a video on its website showing the arrival of Shell’s Brent Delta platform to Quay 6 at Seaton Port on May 2, 2017. The platform topside was removed on April 28 by Allseas-owned giant vessel Pioneer
M² Subsea has joined forces with Frontera Offshore to deliver remedial pipeline work for Permaducto in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) oil field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico. The contract marks the first award for M² Subsea in the Gulf of Mexico region. The project will see personnel from M² Subsea’s onb
The Environment Agency and their partners are working together to develop a flood alleviation scheme to reduce flood risk to properties, transport links and infrastructure in Oxford. The scheme will involve lowering parts of the floodplain and widening some of the existing rivers and streams that ru
A vital connection is underway to link the historic and new marina facilities together as work continues for the delivery of a new waterfront for Dover. Removal of part of the old 19 Century seawall has begun in order to make way for the new Wellington Navigation Channel as part of the Dover Western
DeepOcean has been awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation (EPCI) contract for wear protection on the risers at the Troll C platform in the Norwegian Sea. The award covers, in addition to installation, the design, engineering, procurement and fabrication of the wear protect
Novatek of Russia signed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation with Technip, Linde and Research and Design Institute for Gas Processing (NIPIGas) on Arctic LNG 2.
Kansas Water Office (KWO) yesterday released a video of the John Redmond Reservoir Dredging Project. The project is the first of its kind in the nation with a non-federal entity dredging sediment from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir. The contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD), compl
The Norwegian offshore oil and gas safety body Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has found no major issues during a recent audit of the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform. Johan Sverdrup is an oil and gas field under development at the Utsira High in the North Sea, 160 kilometers west of Stavanger. St
JDR has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Magma Global (Magma), the manufacturer of carbon fibre and Victrex PEEK thermoplastic composite pipe, m-pipe. The signing, which took place at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, marks the start of a collaboration that will combine J
