River Raisin in Monroe, Michigan is getting closer–one scoop at a time–to being delisted from the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. The 2.6-mile section of the river, located near the Port of Monroe, Michigan’s only port on Lake Erie, was contaminated with PCBs and lead from nearby manufacturing. Multip
Polish and Ukrainian natural gas transmission system operators set the rules of cooperation on the Gas Interconnection Poland-Ukraine project.
Oil is flowing at the Otakikpo marginal field in Nigeria to onshore storage tanks ahead of evacuation by shuttle tanker. The field is operated by the Nigerian oil and gas company Green Energy International with 60 percent interest. Oil and gas exploration and development company Lekoil is a technica
Polarcus has received two letters of intent from two undisclosed clients for two additional marine seismic projects offshore South America. The projects, one 3D using Polarcus’ RightBAND technique for broadband data acquisition and one 4D monitoring survey, should begin in Q1 and Q2 2017 respectivel
Norwegian seabed seismic services player, Magseis, has been awarded a contract from ConocoPhillips for a full azimuth 4D seabed seismic survey in the North Sea. The company will be using its proprietary ‘marine autonomous seismic system’ (MASS) for the acquisition. MASS consists of the in-sea cable
The 1000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Kadosh has been delivered to FSUE Rosmorport. The acceptance/delivery certificate for TSHD Kadosh was signed today, 7 December 2016. TSHD Kadosh, which was launched on October 5th at Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard, is the third and final vessel of the TSHD 1000
Mermaid Maritime and China Merchants Industry Holdings have mutually agreed to cancel the construction contract for the DP2 dive support and construction vessel ‘Mermaid Ausana’, effective December 6, 2016. The two companies previously settled to postpone the delivery of the vessel to June 30, 2017.
Orion Marine Group is about to complete the dredging of the Bayport Ship Channel, according to the Port of Houston. The Bayport Channel is being dredged to match the current 45 feet depth of the Houston Ship Channel. With the Barbours Cut dredging completed nearly a year ago, completion of the Baypo
The Petroleum Council of Israel has given its approval of the acquisition of 100% of the Karish and Tanin natural gas fields by Energean Oil & Gas from Delek Drilling and Avner. The agreement for the sale of these two fields between the field partners and Energean was inked in August this year. The
Swire Seabed, a wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Offshore, has landed a six-year contract for the subsea support and construction vessel, Seabed Constructor, with UK-based Ocean Infinity. The vessel will be carrying out AUV based survey and construction support operations on a global basis.
Submarine Manufacturing and Products (SMP) has secured a contract with Norwegian company Alf Lea to supply a complete wet bell system to Bergen University. Alf Lea approached SMP to design and manufacture a wet bell launch and recovery system (LARS) with supporting 20ft DNV containerized machinery a
Boeing has entered into an agreement to acquire Liquid Robotics, a developer of the Wave Glider unmanned surface robot, to grow its seabed-to-space autonomous capabilities. “With Liquid Robotics’ innovative technology and Boeing’s leading intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions, we
Norway’s Höegh LNG said it has signed a letter of intent for one firm and three optional FSRUs at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. According to a statement by Höegh LNG, the vessels have scheduled delivery dates of two units in 2019 and two vessels in 2020. The 170,000-cbm FSRUs will have a
From today, December 6th, dredging at the Murray Mouth will pause for about a month to allow for repairs and maintenance of the dredge. The dredging started in January 2015 to maintain connectivity between the Coorong and the Southern Ocean after River Murray flows were no longer sufficient to scour
