Ivory Coast on Tuesday signed a contract to set up a consortium led by Total in order to build an FSRU-based LNG import terminal to cover the demand for electricity generation.
An aid project delivered in Tuvalu by Australian-owned dredging and civil construction company Hall Pacific in conjunction with New Zealand’s Calibre Consulting has taken out a prestigious Gold Award as part of the 2016 Innovate Awards of Excellence held in New Zealand in September. The awards recog
Keppel Offshore & Marine on Monday said it has secured contracts to build its first LNG-fuelled tugs, and signed a memorandum of understanding with Shell to jointly explore opportunities in using LNG as fuel.
Searcher Seismic, an independent multi-client company, has completed the acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D seismic survey offshore Mexico. Searcher said on Wednesday that the Buscador Near-Shore 2D seismic survey was acquired by its project partner, BGP. The survey data comprises 11,200 km o
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The most attention from our industry readers was reserved for the recently launched company, Rovco. The Bristol-based firm, focused on underwater integrity, remot
Italy’s Eni and Mozambique have signed a 20-year deal with UK-based BP for the supply of liquefied natural gas from the Coral FLNG project, moving the project further forward.
Aibel has secured a modification contract to ready the Heidrun platform to receive the production from the Dvalin field, located in PL435, blocks 6507/7/9 and 6507/8 off Norway. The Dvalin field, formerly named Zidane, will be developed as a subsea tieback to the Heidrun platform in the Norwegian Se
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ navigation mission is to provide safe, reliable, efficient and environmentally sustainable waterborne transportation systems (channels, harbors and waterways) for the movement of commerce, national security needs, and recreation. The Corps operates and maintains 140
Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch subsea technology company Seatools the contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system. The system will be used for the offshore pile installation operations that are part of the construction of the Beatrice offshore
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) announced yesterday the successful launch of the Ellis Island, the barge component of its Articulated Tug & Barge (ATB) hopper dredge currently under construction. The launch occurred on September 30, 2016 at Eastern Shipbuilding’s shipyard in Allanton, F
Aker Solutions secured two contracts worth at least NOK 900 million (USD 112.5 million) from DEA Norge to deliver the subsea production system, maintenance and services at the Dvalin natural gas development offshore Norway. The first order is for a production system encompassing a manifold, four sub
DONG Energy Wind Power has selected Cathie Associates, Ceteal and Ghenova to provide support for its offshore wind farm projects over the next five years. Offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy, Cathie Associates, have teamed up with marine structural engineering company, Cetea
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has announced the availability of the Draft Limited Reevaluation Report and Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment (Draft HSLRR/SEA) and General Conformity (GC) Determi
Quadrant Energy is preparing to flow test the Roc-2 well offshore Australia which, earlier this year, confirmed a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, in good quality rock, within the Caley section, its primary target. The Roc-2 well is located within the WA-437-P exploration permit in the North West Shel
