Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (November 15-22) Largest Ever Mandurah Dredging A record amount of sand has been moved in the annual campaign to provide safe navigation at Mandurah Ocean Entrance and to widen Town Beach. Jasper Ocean Terminal
Trailing suction hopper dredger New Era has returned from Lyttelton, where she was undertaking the annual maintenance dredging, and is re-commencing Stage 1 of the Port Otago’s capital dredging works. The dredging, part of the ‘Next Generation Port Otago’ infrastructural program, will allow larger s
French Hydrographic Office SHOM has awarded iXBlue with a 4-year contract to equip their coastal hydrographic vessels and smaller hydrographic crafts. iXBlue is providing ECHOES sub-bottom profilers and DELPH seabed mapping software to SHOM for shallow water hydrographic applications. According to i
The Environment Agency will be hosting two exhibitions during November 2015 to share their latest plans with the community about the Newhaven flood alleviation scheme. The EA, together with Lewes District Council, is working to develop a scheme that will reduce flood risk from the sea and the river
Bhagwan Marine has been awarded a contract with Quadrant Energy Australia for the Diving Program during the Q4 2015. Bhagwan Marine will be providing Diving Services, Project Management and Engineering Services as well as the offshore execution from their Flagship Vessel the “Bhagwan Dryden” DSV. Th
Ophir Energy has wrapped up drilling operations at the G4/50-11 wildcat exploration in the South Western Graben of the Gulf of Thailand. While encountering oil, Ophir said the quantity was not enough to be commercial. The well was the second in Ophir’s 2015 exploration drilling program in the G4/50
Austrian construction company Strabag has just completed deepening of the Klaipeda Seaport Navigation Channel from 14,5 to 15 meters. During the works, around 260.000 cubic meters of soil was removed from the navigation channel. According to representatives of the Klaipeda Seaport, this €4.1 million
Siem Offshore (SIOFF) has once again agreed to postpone the delivery of the Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel (OSCV) Siem Daya 1 to Daya Materials until December 15, 2015. This time the cancelling date was set for December 31, 2015. Other terms and conditions of the agreement will remain valid and
Trailing suction hopper dredge (TSHD) Pelican, operated by Van Oord Australia, is currently carrying out dredging operations on the Lakes Entrance Bar. According to Gippsland Ports’ CEO, Nick Murray, this will be the eighth consecutive year that Gippsland Ports has engaged the services of ‘Pelican’
Anglo/Dutch oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell has confirmed its Kaikias field discovery, located in the Mars-Ursa basin, in the Gulf of Mexico. Namely, the development potential of Kaikias could exceed 100 million barrels of oil equivalent recoverable. The company said that drilling of the Kaikias
FMC Technologies has secured a contract for the supply of Multiphase Pump solution for Shell’s BC10 Parque das Conchas fields in Brazil. The BC-10 is located in the Campos Basin in water depths up to 6,562 ft (2,000m). The development consist of six fields, Ostra, Abalone, Argonauta B-West, Argonaut
SCT&E LNG said it has selected Air Products’ technology for its LNG export projected located on Monkey Island in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, along with five other members of the Ohio Delegation (Marcy Kaptur, Bob Gibbs, Tim Ryan, David P. Joyce, James Renacci) sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressing support for the Port of Cleveland’s plan modification to permanently stop sediment dumpi
Seismic player Polarcus has secured a contract with an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic project offshore Egypt. This is another deal Polarcus scored offshore Egypt, having previously announced a 50-days seismic shoot in March this year. The project, expected to run for approximately two an
