Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) has extended the contract for the management of its RV Cefas Endeavour with P&O Maritime Services (P&OMS) for an additional two years. The contract is now set to last until March 2019, bringing the full contract commitment to a total
Workers of the Spanish shipbuilder LaNaval in Bilbao, Spain, held recently a keel-laying ceremony for the first of two trailing suction hopper dredgers under construction for Van Oord. Ms Carmen de la Barrera, Van Oord’s Quality Control inspector at the LaNaval yard, performed the ceremony. Undernea
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), now part of Nokia, has been contracted by Statoil to undertake a concept study addressing the integration of ASN’s direct current, fiber optical (DC/FO) technology as subsea control infrastructure for the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. ASN’s DC/FO t
ABB informed it has won a five-year contract to deliver equipment and services for Shell’s giant Prelude FLNG facility to be located offshore Australia. The order includes the delivery of motors, generators, variable speed drives and low-voltage switchgear, Zurich-based ABB said in a statement on We
The city of Schuyler, the Lower Platte North Natural Resources District, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, partnered on a project to reduce flood risks to the city of Schuyler, Nebraska. Schuyler, the county seat for Colfax County, is subject to flooding from three major sources
The dredging of two critical reaches in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway near Breach Inlet, off Sullivan’s Island and the Isle of Palms, and Jeremy Creek in McClellanville has been completed. The Wilco, an 18 inch cutterhead dredge, owned and operated by Southwind Construction, was hard at work in
The Dutch Senate has confirmed TenneT’s role as the developer and operator of the Dutch offshore grid. The Senate approved the amendment of the Electricity Act in connection with the development of offshore wind energy, providing the required legal basis. TenneT CEO, Mel Kroon, stated: “We are very
Mubadala Petroleum has reported that drilling of the first of two development wells on the Manora field in the Northern Gulf of Thailand started on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the G1/48 concession containing the Manora Oil Development with 60% interest, and its par
Orion Marine, a specialty construction company, has secured a contract of approximately $11 million. According to the company, its Heavy Civil Marine Construction segment was recently awarded a contract by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to construct a cofferdam aroun
China Communications Construction Co (M) Sdn Bhd recently awarded a $45.2 million contract to Kerjaya Prospek Group for dredging works in Penang. According to Kerjaya Prospek stock exchange filing from yesterday, the contract is part of the Package One of a project known as “Reclamation For Seri Tan
Veresen said it has finalized commercial terms with Jera for liquefaction capacity at Jordan Cove LNG terminal that has recently been denied its application by FERC.
Norway’s energy giant Statoil has hired Sparrows Group for the supply of cranes and maintenance services on the Mariner field development project in the North Sea. Sparrows will supply crane operator personnel to support drilling, operations, maintenance and logistics, and will deliver maintenance a
Petrobras has informed that the Libra Consortium has concluded the drilling and the evaluation of the well 3-BRSA-1322-RJS (3-RJS-741), located in the block northwest area, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, offshore Brazil. According to the Brazilian company, the well confirmed the discovery of “good qu
As we already reported last week, Royal IHC (IHC) and National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) have signed a contract for the construction of the first custom-build state-of-the-art trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) in the Gulf area. The 6,000m³ TSHD is a tailor-made solution that combines shall
