The TSHD “JUN YANG 1”, built Royal IHC in 2016 for Guangzhou Dredging Company (GDC), is currently on her maiden voyage from Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, to Guangzhou, China, taking the long way home via Cape Town. The “Jun Yang 1” of 167.5 x 31.0 meters is propelled by two MAN type 9L48/60CR main en
Norfolk Dredging Company of Chesapeake, Virginia, has won a $10.4 million contract for Wilmington Harbor mid-river and military ocean terminal Sunny Point maintenance dredging. The work, to take place in New Hanover and Brunswick counties in North Carolina, will require the removal and disposal of s
Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) on Tuesday said it has been contracted to supply two 5-cylinder dual-fuel engines for LNG duo currently under construction at South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) will hold a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the harbor deepening on Thursday, September 1. Various dignitaries, Congressional representatives and elected officials will gather with leaders from the Co
Van Oord successfully executed the impressive ground improvement project for client Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The project, which started in 2014, involved the reclamation of 65 million cubic meters of sand and extensive soil improvement. The reclamation area of 1,320 ha is intended f
Norway’s oil firm Statoil has brought its Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen (GRD) field on stream. According to the company, the field, located in the North Sea, around 5-15 kilometers southwest of the Gullfaks A platform was scheduled for start-up on Christmas Eve 2016, but the project has worked faster and is
Wood Group has been awarded a new engineering services framework agreement by DONG Energy, to support their oil & gas assets across the Danish, Norwegian and UK continental shelves. Front end development, maintenance and modifications, engineering, and late life and decommissioning services, for bot
Norwegian energy company Statoil is making progress with its UK North Sea Mariner field development, located on the East Shetland Platform of the UK North Sea, approximately 150 kilometers east of Shetland. The company has informed that the Mariner B Floating Storage Unit reached Scotland during the
An $824,764 contract for the next phase of improvements for the ring levee surrounding the northern California town of Marysville was awarded to Patterson Taber General Engineering, Inc. of Marysville, California on August 26, 2016. Expected to begin later this year, the next phase of construction i
Australian energy firm Origin Energy has said that the production from its Halladale and Speculant offshore fields has come on stream. The Origin-operated Halladale/Speculant project, located in the Otway Basin, is expected to boost production at the Otway Gas Plant by up to 80TJ/day and drive growt
BP has informed that the jacket for one of the Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms has sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF), Azerbaijan, for offshore installation in the Caspian Sea. The British oil major, the operator of the Shah Deniz gas field, said that the transport
Chevron signed a binding sales and purchase agreement with ENN LNG Trading Company, for the delivery of liquefied natural gas to China from its portfolio.
Norway’s Statoil and Petrobras of Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate cooperation in the gas value chain.
Wärtsilä of Finland has won a contract to supply a 100 MW dual-fuel plant to Albares Renovables in Argentina.
