The Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Statoil the consent to modify North Sea’s Gina Krog platform for deploying a temporary oil transport solution. This consent comes after the PSA gave the Norwegian oil major a consent to put the Gina Krog platform a
French offshore services provider Bourbon has been awarded a contract for the mooring installation of the first floating wind turbine in France at the experimental test site of SEM-REV managed by Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), in the context of European project FLOATGEN. FLOATGEN is a wind turbine
Shearwater has signed a one month contract with an undisclosed client for a 3D marine acquisition survey offshore North Africa. The contract will start promptly and will be performed by Polar Marquis while en-route from India to the North Sea. “In combination with the successfully completed ONGC con
Island Offshore has entered into an agreement with OceanGate Expeditions for the use of Island Crown as support vessel during the first manned submersible expedition to the wreck of the RMS Titanic since 2005. The assignment should start in May 2018 and will have a duration of 10 weeks for Island Cr
German offshore wind farms generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first quarter of 2017, a 36.7 percent jump compared to 3.5 billion kWh of electricity generated offshore Germany in the first quarter of 2016.
German offshore wind farms generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first quarter of 2017, a 36.7 percent jump compared to 3.5 billion kWh of electricity generated offshore Germany in the first quarter of 2016.
The Borough of Stone Harbor (NJ) yesterday released an update on the periodic nourishment and repair of the dune and berm system in Avalon and Stone, the Avalon/Stone Harbor Beach Replenishment project. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company dredge “Texas” departed recently the Avalon work site to fini
Aker BP ASA (Aker BP) has entered into a framework contract with Schlumberger for acquisition of 4D seismic data. The framework contract has a duration of four years, with an option for 2+2 years. The contract includes WesternGeco marine acquisition of 4D seismic data over the Aker BP-operated field
In its efforts to diversify the supply sources of liquefied natural gas, Poland secured a spot cargo delivery of U.S. LNG to its import terminal President Lech Kaczyński in Swinoujscie.
Kuantan Port Consortium (KPC) has released a video about the development of the port’s New Deep Water Terminal. The Kuantan Port New Deep Water Terminal, a private public partnership project between the Government of Malaysia and Kuantan Port Consortium, was approved in June 2015. The new terminal w
Following the preliminary work carried out at the end of 2016, Jenkins Marine and BAM Nuttall are making good progress on the £10 million quayside construction development in Poole, the South Quay Project. According to Jenkins, the company has provided specialized and highly maneuverable workboats t
Høglund Marine Automation has won contracts to supply automation systems for an LNG bunker vessel Bernhard Schulte, and two chemical tankers for Sirius Shipping.
Cairn Energy is set to spud an exploration well at the FAN prospect offshore Senegal. The well is the first pure exploration well to be drilled there since the discovery wells of FAN-1 and SNE-1 in 2014 after a series of SNE appraisal wells. According to Far Ltd, a partner in the Senegal joint ventu
Since mid-April, Florida Dredge and Dock (FDD) has been busy dredging a portion of the Banana River, known as “Cut 13”. Cut 13 begins just North of the bridge where 528 (the Bee Line) crosses Banana River and extends north approximately 14,000ft. FDD is also dredging a small area of the Canaveral Ba
