Dubai-based seismic contractor, Polarcus, said it has secured a new contract for a broadband 3D marine seismic project. According to the Oslo-listed company, the survey will be carried out in Asia Pacific. The duration of the project should be approximately six weeks. Polarcus did not disclose the v
Work to repair hurricane damage to the previously constructed beach along the south central oceanfront (North and South Forest Beach) is complete, reports the Town of Hilton Head Island. The Town’s contractor, Weeks Marine Inc., has rebuilt the beach to the point where they were prior to Hurricane M
AutoNaut Ltd has formally become a partner with the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre. A desk in the innovation centre will be utilized by AutoNaut technical and business development personnel to work alongside the NOC’s marine autonomy and robotics team. The NOC first worked with AutoNaut in 2013 o
Australia’s Decmil Group has secured a $17 million extension to an existing contract with QGC, the operator of Queensland Curtis LNG project and a unit of energy giant Shell. The deal is an extension to the existing long-term wellsite installation services contract for QGC, Decmil said in a statemen
Sonardyne Asia has informed that its Ranger 2 underwater acoustic positioning technology has been selected for six new Chinese scientific research vessels. The new order, announced during the OI China exhibition and conference in Shanghai, follows last month’s news that the Polar Research Institute
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District has awarded a $32.6 million dredging contract to Dutra Group of San Rafael, California, for the Upper Reach B phase of the Delaware River Main Channel Deepening project. The contract for the Delaware Main Channel is to be completed by October 2
Sweco has signed two new contracts – one with the Regional Water Management Authority in Wrocław and one with the Regional Water Management Authority in Szczecin – to provide consulting services for the Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project – component 5.4. The project, which is being co-financed by
The new oil and gas player formed with a merger of BP Norge and Det norske, Aker BP, has announced the start-up of production from Viper-Kobra, which is tied back to the Alvheim FPSO, in the North Sea offshore Norway. The company said on Thursday that the project was developed on time and within bud
China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), recently won a major port expansion project in Conakry, Guinea. The contract that was signed in late October is estimated to be worth around $774 million. Conakry Port is the fourth-larges
A joint venture company has been established to develop the Fortuna FLNG project, in Ophir-operated Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea, with final investment decision (FID) targeted for the first half of 2017. Ophir Holdings & Ventures LTD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ophir Energy, and OneLNGSM, a
Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by an undisclosed operator to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes the project management and manufacture of several kilometers of a static and dynamic unarmoured steel tube umb
Ocean energy developer, Minesto, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Research Center for Ocean Energy and Strategies (RCOES) at National Taiwan Ocean University on Thursday. Within the scope of the collaboration agreement, Minesto and RCOES will explore the potential for Minesto’s Deep Gre
Saipem has been awarded new contracts and change orders in the E&C offshore segment, for an overall amount of about 1 billion dollars. In particular, the most significant are the notification of award by Saudi Aramco of two EPIC contracts (engineering, procurement, installation, construction), under
Bergen-based Metas has been awarded a contract from Statoil for the upgrade of the LoVe ocean observatory. The Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabled Ocean Observatory (LoVe) is a Norwegian infrastructure for marine research, monitoring and subsea technology development. The contract will cover an upgrade of LoV
