Cowes Harbor Commission (CHC) has just released maintenance dredging schedule for the early part of 2017. According to CHC, the dredging will be carried out at Shepards Wharf Marina and approaches, the Town Quay mooring basin and the Royal Yacht Squadron basin. These maintenance dredge works were or
The European Commission has found amendments to the German Law on support to the production of renewable electricity (EEG 2017), which stipulate that support will mainly be granted through competitive auctions and not through feed-in tariffs from 2017 onward, to be in line with EU state aid rules. T
The European Commission has found amendments to the German Law on support to the production of renewable electricity (EEG 2017), which stipulate that support will mainly be granted through competitive auctions and not through feed-in tariffs from 2017 onward, to be in line with EU state aid rules. T
Norwegian oil company Statoil has seen one billion barrels of oil equivalent produced from the Troll B platform since it came on stream on September 19, 1995. Statoil said on Tuesday that its operated North Sea platforms Troll B and C combined were the largest oil producers on the Norwegian Continen
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and its partners in the BM-S-9 consortium started the oil and natural gas production on Monday in the Lapa field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt layer, through the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba. According to Petrobras, this is the third unit to enter operation in the pre-s
Neptune has been awarded a contract from Sea Trucks Group to support the Enap Sipetrol Argentina pipelay construction for the PIAM project. The company will provide integrated survey, ROV and stabilization services for PIAM project in the Magallanes field, offshore Argentina. The scope of work cover
The shore protection work for the Hulhumalé Phase II islands is now 96 percent complete, according to the Maldives Housing Development Corporation (HDC). The protection work includes construction of armor rock revetment and sand haulage of Hulhumalé Phase II offshore islands (Yacht Marina and Cruise
Forland Subsea said it has reached a temporary agreement with EMAS AMC AS over charter payment for the LCV/IMR subsea vessel Lewek Inspector. To remind, EMAS AMC AS has defaulted on its payment for the month of October 2016 due to financial distress. Since EMAS informed Forland that it is ‘unable to
Benthic has secured a contract by Libra Consortium for an offshore geotechnical investigation at the Libra field located approximately 140 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Benthic’s portable remotely operated drill (PROD) will perform in-situ testing and sampling to a maximum penetrati
KBR has been awarded contracts by BP for the provision of conceptual engineering services and for the provision of pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and FEED engineering services. Each agreement has a duration of three years with an option on each to extend for two additional years. The global
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council announced the approval of the Comprehensive Plan Update at the meeting on Friday, December 16th, 2016. The plan update was unanimously adopted by the Council, which includes the five Gulf States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas) and six
Finnish LNG specialist, Wärtsilä, has been awarded the contract to supply a biohybrid production plant to the German energy company, Erdgas Südwest.
Following the recent preliminary investment decision for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) project, Deutsche WindGuard (DWG) informed it has supported planning and optimisation of the offshore wind farm. Over the past few years, Deutsche WindGuard has carried out a variety of tasks including:
Energinet.dk has invited tenders for burial and protection of 150kV subsea cables at Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS). The works include burial and protection of approximately 2 x 24km of submarine cable route, which is to be divided into trenching and jetting work for the Krieger’s Flak C
