Norway’s Siem Offshore has inked a charter contract with an undisclosed international construction diving and subsea engineering company for the MRSV Siem Marlin. According to Siem’s Oslo Stock Exchange filing, the agreement is made at market terms and is firm for a period of five years with a purch
Some of the world’s largest dredgers will arrive in Egypt over the next few weeks where they will join the crews that are already working on the expansion of the Suez Canal, reported the Middle East News Agency (Mena). According to Engineer Wagdy Zaki, executive manager of the project’s dredging wor
A century-old practice to drop dredge material in the Great Barrier Reef area has been put to an end. Regulations to implement the Coalition’s historic ban on the disposal of capital dredge material in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park have been signed off by the Government. “This is another major
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation informed it has selected a consortium consisting of CB&I, Chiyoda Corporation and Saipem (CCS JV) for the initial development of the onshore LNG park in Mozambique.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation informed it has selected a consortium consisting of CB&I, Chiyoda Corporation and Saipem (CCS JV) for the initial development of the onshore LNG park in Mozambique.
Anadarko Petroleum, an independent, U.S.-based oil and gas company, have moved a step closer to bringing its offshore gas reserves in Mozambique to production. Namely, the company, together with its partners in Mozambique’s Offshore Area 1, has selected consortium consisting of CB&I, Chiyoda Corpora
Janusz Piechocinski, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, has officially inaugurated the construction of the second deep-water berth in DCT Gdansk (T2). The T2 groundbreaking ceremony took place on Friday, 15th of May, 2015. The inauguration of the construction works was preceded by the round table disc
Isla Grande Terminal Dredging Contract Inked Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc. has further solidified its commitment to Puerto Rico with the execution of a $48.5 million construction contract for a new pier at its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Boskalis Reports Good First Quarter [&
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (May 11 – May 17). Subsea 7 has informed that a programme of cost reduction measures will be implemented including a re-sizing of the fleet and workforce, and the restructuring of its corporate organis
Mermaid Maritime, a provider of subsea and drilling services to the offshore oil and gas industry, has recorded a net loss $15.9 million for the three months period ended 31 March 2015. Compared to the last year, the Group’s net profit decreased for US$21.1 million from net profits of US$5.2 million
Construction works on a new container terminal at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta, Indonesia, are progressing according to schedule and within the budget. The NewPriok Project is expected to greatly increase Jakarta’s port capacity through increasing the port’s water depth to 20 meters in order to accom
Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company that specializes in dredging and land reclamation, in early April deployed its Trailing suction hopper dredger VOLVOX ASIA to the New Suez Canal project. The vessel has hopper capacity of 10,834m³, and along with three stationary cutter suction dredgers and a la
ShawCor informed that its Canusa-CPS division has received notification from Saipem SpA that the suspension of the work on the Saipem contract in relation to South Stream Pipeline has been lifted with immediate effect and that work on this contract is to be resumed. The notification follows Saipem’s
Seatronics, an Acteon company, announced that (GEG) has taken delivery of two Predator inspection-class ROV systems integrated with SeeByte’s SeeTrack CoPilot. Great Eastern Group will use the Predators to provide enhanced capabilities for their survey and inspection tasks. SeeTrack CoPilot will all
