The announcement of the Borssele auction results was greeted by the offshore wind industry with a mixture of astonishment, delight and (from competitors) a little concern. DONG had beaten not just the 37 other bidders but also smashed the €100/MWh levellised cost of energy (LCOE) barrier well ahead
The announcement of the Borssele auction results was greeted by the offshore wind industry with a mixture of astonishment, delight and (from competitors) a little concern. DONG had beaten not just the 37 other bidders but also smashed the €100/MWh levellised cost of energy (LCOE) barrier well ahead
The Kansas Water Office (KWO) announced yesterday that the first phase of dredging at John Redmond Reservoir is complete. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) began dredging operations this past May. The project is the first of its kind in the nation with a non-federal entity dredging sediment from a
The Wyre Council has just released the latest update for the Rossall sea defenses. According to the update, construction continues apace along the full extent of the project with work being carried out on all major elements of the new defenses. Precast concrete which makes up the bulk of the visible
Oceaneering and BP have agreed a two-year extension through January 2019 under the field support vessel services contract that was entered into for work offshore Angola on blocks 18 and 31. Under this contract term extension, the Ocean Intervention III will remain chartered through April 2017, with
Oil giant ExxonMobil on Thursday announced a ‘significant discovery’ with a potential recoverable resource of between 500 million and 1 billion barrels of oil on the Owowo field offshore Nigeria. According to the company’s statement on Thursday, the Owowo-3 well, which was spud on September 23, enco
Central Dredging Association (CEDA), together with the Portuguese Engineers Association (OE), today opened the Iberian Dredging Conference in Lisbon. The conference was opened by Stefan Aarninkhof, Professor of Coastal Engineering at Delft University of Technology. The central theme of the CEDA Iber
Oil giant ExxonMobil has further solidified its claims of a ‘world class discovery’ offshore Guyana after completing the drilling of the Liza-3 well in the Stabroek block. To remind, ExxonMobil already drilled the Liza-1 and Liza-2 wells and claimed to have found a ‘world class oil discovery.’ The L
Phase 1 of the Hill Head Coastal Protection Project has been completed and is now open to the public, reports Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership (ESCP). The Phase 1 works, which started 30th August 2016, involved beach renourishment and extensive groyne maintenance. The beach material for the Phase
Furetank Rederi and Älvtank have extended the order for two more intermediate product/chemical tankers with LNG propulsion at Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding.
Aker Solutions has secured two five-year framework agreements for potential future deliveries of subsea production systems and lifecycle services at BP-operated oil and gas fields globally. The first five-year contract covers engineering, procurement and construction of subsea production systems for
UK-based oil and gas exploration company Hurricane Energy has completed testing operations on the 205 21a-7Z horizontal sidetrack well at its Lancaster field west of Shetland Islands. Hurricane said on Thursday that the company has proceeded to suspend the well as a future producer, providing a seco
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Vineyard Wind, formerly named OffshoreMW, to perform a marine geotechnical site investigation within its wind development lease, offshore Massachusetts. The company’s 105-meter drilling vessel M/V Fugro Synergy will perform the study, which will include numerous
The study Witteveen+Bos recently conducted for Royal Port S.A. in order to ascertain the feasibility of a new port on the mouth of the Magdalena River near Barranquilla, Colombia, shows that the port is technically and nautically feasible. Now that its feasibility has been established, Royal Port is
