In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos yesterday challenged the effectiveness of EPA’s remedy to cleanup PCBs from the Upper Hudson River. With unacceptably high levels of contamination still l
Following successful completion of the sand pumping activities at the Sea Pines Resort, the Hilton Head Island’s contractor, Weeks Marine, restarted beach renourishment activities in South Forest Beach on August 21. According to the town’s latest update, the active construction zone is currently loc
ConocoPhillips’ plan to sell its stake in an oil find off Senegal to Woodside Petroleum hit a speed-bump on Tuesday as a junior partner attempted to buy time to pre-empt the deal at the same time it announced an increase in the size of the field.
Weeks Marine Inc. recently won a $15.7 million USACE Galveston District contract for the maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel, Redfish Reef to Morgan’s Point. According to the Corps, the contractor will remove approximately 2.3 million cubic yards of shoal material from the channels usin
James Fisher Subsea Excavation – part of James Fisher and Sons – has brought the world’s most powerful tool to the market to support clients with large scale excavations. The SP12000 produces more than 6 tonnes of thrust at full power and a significant volume output of 12,000 liters of water per sec
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, recently awarded a contract to Manson Construction in the amount of approximately $5.2 million for maintenance dredging within the Entrance Channel of the Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas. A hopper dredge will remove around 3.15 million cubic yards
Singapore-based BW, signed a 15-year agreement with Pakistan GasPort Limited (PGPL) to provide LNG regasification services utilizing a newbuild floating storage and regasification unit for the second Pakistan LNG terminal.
Fugro will be undertaking a survey for unexploded ordnance (UXO) on behalf of Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), across its wind farm development zone. The UXO survey is scheduled to start during an appropriate weather window following September 1, 2016, and will continue over a planned minimum
GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a multi-million dollar frame agreement by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). Under the agreement, GE will provide an estimated 55 subsea wellheads over next three years for the operator’s offshore drilling campaign, in shallow to medium waters offshore Indi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, is soliciting contractors for Morro Bay Harbor Maintenance Dredging project. According to the FedBizOpps (FBO), the project includes dredging of material from the federal navigation channels in Morro Bay Harbor, San Luis Obispo County, CA. The
ROVOP is set to increase its Houston workforce as a result of further business growth including recent contract wins in the Gulf of Mexico region, the company informed on Monday. The growth follows the successful completion of a pipeline installation campaign in Mexico with Drebbel de Mexico, which
Offshore Energy Today last week reported that the giant Pioneering Spirit offshore vessel was nearing the Yme platform in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea, in a move to lift the Yme topside. Our report was based on the Pioneering Spirit’s AIS data, as seen on Marine Traffic website, but now we
The government of Gibraltar on Monday signed an agreement with Shell for the supply of liquefied natural gas for use in power generation.
Construction to implement flood risk management improvements to Natomas Basin levees is one step closer to reality after leaders from the Department of the Army, State of California and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency signed a project partnership agreement August 18. The partnership agreeme
