The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) has allocated almost $200,000 to 13 applicants to assist their participation in the federal environmental assessment of the Port of Quebec Deep-Water Multipurpose Wharf Project – Beauport 2020 Project, located in Quebec. This funding was made
Reach Subsea has entered into contract extensions with Eidesvik Offshore, the Oslo-listed company said on Tuesday. As a part of the 3-year cooperation agreement, entered into with Eidesvik Offshore in October 2014, Reach Subsea provides ROV and subsea services onboard the Viking Neptun also for the
Eidesvik Offshore ASA has been awarded contract extension from Technip for its vessel Viking Neptun. The contract, including the transit, has secured commitment beyond 2016 for the vessel. Start of the contract is expected in the beginning of April in UK sector. “We are very pleased with the confide
Omantel has signed a supply agreement with Xtera Communications for building a submarine cable from Salalah in Oman to Bosaso in Puntland and Berbera in Somaliland, with a terrestrial extension to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The Gulf to Africa (G2A) cable will be built in partnership with Ethio Telecom
Oil services company Subsea 7 has renewed a contract with Norwegian cranes and lifting operations specialist Westcon Løfteteknikk (WCL), adding 5 years to existing framework agreement. Over the last three years the framework agreement has seen WCL provide operation of Subsea 7’s own pool of lifting
Forsys Subsea, the joint venture between FMC Technologies and Technip, has been awarded a contract from Statoil to provide a subsea front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for subsea tie-back of Trestakk to Åsgard A FPSO. The scope of work includes all systems and related services from the wel
Bhagwan Marine (BM) has secured a multi-year, multi-vessel contract to provide marine support to American company Foss Teras Marine on the oil & gas construction project in the Russia’s Far East. Work will start in the second quarter of 2016, when the number of BM’s vessels comes off charter in the
At its Monday, February 8, 2016, meeting, the Pacifica City Council approved a $450,000 for the repairs of the Beach Blvd. sea wall and promenade. The work that will be done is just to stabilize the area and will not fully restore it to its pre-disaster condition. “The cost to reconstruct the wall a
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (February 8-14, 2016). Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger Named Charlock The naming ceremony of Charlock, Van den Herik’s new trailing suction hopper dredger, took place on February 6th in Harlingen. Subsea Tooling
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 08 – February 13). Aker Solutions will temporary reduce wages of its Norwegian maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) employees, the company said Thursday. Starting in March, senior
Polarcus has secured the three-year extension of the bareboat charter party agreement (BBCP) for M/V Vyacheslav Tikhonov between Polarcus Selma and SCF Sakhalin Supply Limited. The initial five-year agreement between the parties was signed in 2011. This extension was carried out pursuant to SCF’s op
Polarcus has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) for a 4D project over a field offshore Norway. This will be the 8th monitor survey over the field and is part of an improved oil recovery (IOR) plan, Polarcus said. The survey is due to start in May 2016 and will run for approximately eight weeks. Comme
An iron cannon has been recovered during the dredging project that will prepare HMNB Portsmouth for the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. The cannon was found by Boskalis Westminster, which has been contracted by the Defense Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to carry out the £31 million
Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer has signed a long-term deal to supply Pakistan State Oil Company (PSO) with liquefied natural gas. Under the deal, Qatargas 2 will supply 3.75 million tonnes per annum of LNG to PSO for a period of 15 years with the first cargo expected to be delivered in M
