Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has just started its baseline water quality monitoring program for its proposed Channel Deepening Project, the largest environmental monitoring program ever undertaken for a dredging project in New Zealand. LPC is planning to dredge the shipping channel in Lyttel
Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources has issued a tender for a rig contract for the Druid exploration well, located in the Southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland, with a spud date set for June 2017. The Druid well is located in the Frontier Exploration License (FEL) 2/14 which lies in
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District and Lake County Utilities, along with Congressman David Joyce and Lake County Commissioners recently signed a Project Partnership Agreement to design a 600-foot stone revetment on the Lake Erie. The new stone revetment is designed to protect the Lak
Oil and gas company Lekoil has completed the second well on the Otakikpo field in Nigeria. The company expects commercial production from the field to start ‘in the next few weeks’. Otakikpo is located in oil mining lease (OML) 11, on the shoreline in the south-eastern part of the Niger Delta. The f
Norwegian offshore vessels provider, GC Rieber Shipping, has secured a charter extension with Nexans Skagerrak, a subsidiary of subsea cables specialist Nexans Norway, for the CSV Polar King. The first time charter agreement announced in March this year, was set for a fixed period of about 8.5 month
Mubadala Petroleum has completed drilling of the MNA-17 well on the Manora Oil Development located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand. The new production well is set to come online in November. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the G1/48 concession containing the Manora Oil Development with 60% in
Russian energy firm Gazprom has received further permits for the construction of the TurkStream pipeline project. Following last week’s reports of Gazprom obtaining first permits for the restart of works on the project, the company on Wednesday said it received further approvals. The latest approval
GE Oil & Gas said it has been awarded a contract to supply gas turbine-driven compressors for a third natural gas liquefaction train for the Tangguh LNG expansion project.
Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard has delivered second of three trailing suction hopper dredgers, the Kronshlot, to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Rosmorport”. Following the launching and delivery to the seaport of Saint Petersburg, the 1000 m³ TSHD is now ready to take on maintenance dredging projec
As a result of weather related delays encountered since August 15, including the passage of Tropical Storm Hermine, the Town of Hilton Head Island has revised the schedule for the completion of the remaining segments of the Beach Renourishment Project. Work on the southern half of the central oceanf
After five years of monitoring, the interim results for the Sand Motor pilot project are now available. The results were presented at an international conference ‘The Sand Motor, 5 years of Building with Nature’ in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. The Sand Motor, run by Rijkswaterstaat, the provincial a
Alewijnse Marine Systems is undertaking the complete electrical outfitting of the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Spauwer, developed in-house by Den Herder Seaworks. The works are taking place at Shipyard Trico B.V. in Rotterdam. The TSHD Spauwer is a large and highly sophisticated hopper dre
Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement for the provision of 3D CSEM data from the multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. According to EMGS, the deal will provide net revenue of USD 2.1 million to the company. The revenue will be recognized
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has signed an agreement authorizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, and Horry County, South Carolina, to use up to one million cubic yards of sand from federal waters to renourish the Garden City and Surfside Beach areas of Horry an
