Greens and environmentalists are calling new ‘Deepwater Horizon’ after the release of BP’s oil spill modelling produced to evaluate effects of an oil spill in its proposed Great Australian Bight drilling program. BP on Thursday released the worst-case oil spill scenario for Stromlo-1 well located wi
Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract to provide decommissioning services for the Janice subsea field in the North Sea for Maersk Oil UK. Maersk Supply Service will assume responsibility for engineering, project planning and managing the scope of the subsea decommissioning. “With the awa
Aker Solutions has secured a contract from Statoil to deliver a compression module for the Troll field in the North Sea to help boost output at one of Norway’s key offshore fields. The contract is valued at NOK 370 million and is an option in a front end engineering and design (FEED) agreement award
The Dutch government’s call for tenders for Borssele III and IV offshore wind sites is set to be launched today, with the period for submitting bids ending at 5 p.m. on 29 September. As of this tender round, turbines used for projects must have a nominal capacity of 6MW at least, in line with market
The Dutch government’s call for tenders for Borssele III and IV offshore wind sites is set to be launched today, with the period for submitting bids ending at 5 p.m. on 29 September. As of this tender round, turbines used for projects must have a nominal capacity of 6MW at least, in line with market
The U.S. Senate yesterday passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016, a significant milestone that moves the 52-foot Charleston Harbor Deepening Project to the U.S. House of Representatives for final authorization. “WRDA is critical legislation for port and port-related infrastructure
Navigational dredging within Oceanside Harbor continued this week with the contractor, CJW Construction, reporting having removed approximately 5,000 cubic yards of material from the harbor’s entrance channels from September 8 through 14. CJW also reported six-days lost to large ocean swells in this
Royal IHC yard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, has completed installation of the cutter ladder for Boskalis’ self-propelled cutter suction dredger HELIOS. The cutter ladder – which has a length of 47m and a weight of 1,717,000kg (excluding the side winches) – was built at IHC shipyard in Sliedrecht.
Vaalco Energy has been forced to temporarily shut in a well at its Avouma platform offshore Gabon due to a recurring issue with an electrical submersible pump. The company previously reported in late July that the primary electrical submersible pump (ESP) failed in the Avouma 2-H well on the Avouma
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is expecting a final Senate vote on the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bill this week. The legislation is seen as critical to ensuring the harbor deepening project remains on track and Charleston Harbor is deepened to 52 feet. “At the end of the day, harbor deepen
APPEA, an organization speaking for the Australian oil and gas industry, has slammed the Green Party’s proposal to ban drilling in the Great Australian Bight, off southern Australia. Earlier this week, environmentalists and the Green Party have lashed out against BP’s soon-to-be-decided-on drilling
Nexans cable technology has been selected by VBMS to deliver inter-array and export cables for Blyth offshore wind farm. As part of its own contract with EDF Energy Renewables, VBMS will use the Nexans 66 kV inter-array cable system to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and
Ophir Energy, a London-listed oil and gas company, is making progress with its floating LNG project in Equatorial Guinea where it is working on developing the gas reserves found in the offshore Block R. The company on Thursday said the upstream part of the Fortuna FLNG project was ‘technically ready
The Natural Resources Wales is inviting people living in Newport to a drop in event to find out more about the latest plans to reduce the risk of flooding in the area. The new scheme will improve flood protection for more than 660 properties in Crindau and Shaftesbury. NRW has appointed Galliford Tr
