The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be holding a Project Delivery Team (PDT) meeting for the Loxahatchee River Watershed Restoration Project Wednesday, March 30 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Elsa Kimbell Environmental Education and Research Center at Jonathan Dickinson St
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, informed it has received an order to deliver hatch covers, cranes, deck machinery and steering gear to two new 25,600 dwt LNG-powered bulkers for Finnish owner ESL Shipping.
Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by A2SEA to perform engineering consultancy services for its offshore wind farm installation work at the DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm. Aqualis Offshore’s London-office will provide engineering services including geotechnical and structural site asse
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock of Oak Brook, Illinois is about to start one more season – the third of six – of clearing out sediment from the bottom of Lake Decatur. According to Engineering Services Coordinator Jerry Stevens, crews have been working this week to reassemble the dredge operation as they
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice have announced that a contract has been awarded for phase one of the Long Beach Island Dune Project. The $37.6 million contract was awarded to H&L Contracting and consists of groin rehabilitation and construction of new groins. “T
Dana Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company, has completed drilling operations on the Manatee-1 exploration well in the Bakassi West block in Cameroon. The well is operated by Dana Petroleum with 55% interest, and SDX Energy, an exploration and production company with assets in
The U.S. Coast Guard began temporarily moving aids to navigation in Hilo Harbor, Hawaii, Sunday, to assist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with planned dredging operations. As previously released, the Corps hopper dredge Essayons will conduct maintenance dredging in March and April starting in Nawi
Harkand, an inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) company, has secured a scope of work with TAQA in the North Sea. The company’s Aberdeen office will deliver a pipeline inspection campaign across TAQA’s fields in the Northern and Central North Sea. The campaign is expected to get underway in summ
Offshore marine services provider, Bourbon on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy shipping businesses currently owned by the majority shareholder JACCAR Holdings for a price of US$320 million.
Aker Solutions has won a global framework agreement to deliver engineering and project management services at BP-operated subsea oil and gas fields. The contract has a fixed period of five years and may be extended by two years. It covers subsea engineering services, asset integrity management and o
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has approved the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the development of fields falling under Cluster 2 of the deepwater block KG-DWN-98/2, in the Krishna-Godawari Basin offshore India, with plans to complete the project in 2020. According to the company, t
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reporting that much progress has been made on the coastal storm damage reduction work being performed on both Carolina Beach and Kure Beach. Favorable weather for the last couple of weeks has allowed work to move along steadily. The Phase 1 of this beach re-nouris
Mermaid Subsea Services in Qatar, part of Mermaid Maritime, has secured an additional subsea cable installation and related diving services contract from Saipem. The contract has an estimated value of USD 10 million and is scheduled for completion within three months. According to the email received
The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has provided more than $116 million in grants over the last three years to coastal communities to assist with the nourishment of some of Florida’s beaches. Grants are administered through the Beach Management Funding Assistance Program, which develops
