A major cleanup project restarting this summer will dig up and remove more decades-old contaminated sediments, creosoted pilings and other materials from Port Gamble Bay. Local residents are invited to an April 26 meeting in Port Gamble to get the latest news from Washington Department of Ecology st
Aker Solutions secured a framework agreement from Lundin Norway to provide engineering services for offshore developments in Norway. The agreement covers early-phase studies, pre-engineering (FEED) work, verifications and follow-on engineering for Lundin Norway. It encompasses engineering work from
Byron Energy has completed the drilling of the SM- 71 #1 well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico intersecting hydrocarbon saturated sands in three intervals. This includes the primary D5 target, with a combined gross thickness of 150 feet/46 metres. The company started drilling the well, located at the Sout
Denmark-based underwater technology solutions provider, MacArtney, has supplied a MERMAC S30C winch, cable and termination to IT International of Halifax, Nova Scotia, for their core sampling business group. According to MacArtney, the winch has been supplied with a Focal Model 180 slip ring, 1500 m
Oceanteam Solutions has been awarded a contract to supply 4000T and 1100T turntables and auxiliary equipment for the storage, splicing and multiple loadouts of cables to a client at Oceanteam’s own base in Velsen Noord, The Netherlands. Oceanteam Solutions is supplying engineering services, cable ha
Oil production has started at the Julia oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, ExxonMobil said on Tuesday. The first production well is now online and a second well will start production in the coming weeks, the company said. The Julia development is located approximately 265 miles southwest of New Orlean
French oil major Total is gearing up for exploration drilling operations in the Khan Asparuh licence in the Black Sea, offshore Bulgaria. The country’s Ministry of Energy said on Tuesday that the drillship Noble Globetrotter II was presented in Burgas, Bulgaria on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Namely, No
Italian contractor Saipem has been awarded new E&C (Engineering & Construction) contracts valued at approximately €430 million ($487 million). The first is a contract with Statoil, for the lift and mating operations of offshore floating wind turbines for the Hywind Scotland project. The 30 MW projec
French LNG player Engie on Monday executed a cooperation agreement with the Egyptian National Gas Company (EGAS) for imports of liquefied natural gas to Egypt.
Chevron recently signed a deal with Alinta Energy for the delivery of natural gas from its Wheatstone LNG project currently under construction near Onslow, Western Australia.
Partrac has been selected by Statoil to provide real-time wave and current measurement services for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Partrac has been contracted to manage the deployment and maintenance of the equipment and the delivery of real-time waves and current data over the duration of the cons
Ciena has been selected by KDDI Corporation for the Japan Information Highway (JIH) submarine cable upgrade. Ciena will deploy its GeoMesh submarine solutions on KDDI’s 3,000 km link from Miyazaki-to-Okinawa and Shima-to-Okinawa to enable it to provide 100G services. “Ciena’s cutting-edge optical tr
Australian MEC Resources has informed that a contract for the seismic activities within PEP11 in the Sydney Basin, offshore Australia, has been finalized. MEC Resources reported in March it was carrying out preparatory works for the seismic survey in the basin, including procurement of specialist se
In little over two months’ time, the Inauguration Ceremony of the new Panama Canal will mark the completion of the largest infrastructure undertaking in the waterway since the original canal construction back in 1914. The official opening ceremony of the expanded canal will take place on Sunday, Jun
