For the first time in several years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed dredging of the Main Channel entrance to the Ventura Harbor. During a three-week project to dredge the entrance to the Harbor, approx. 800,000 cubic yards of sand material was removed from the site. The dredging effo
DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts in the Atlantic region. According to the company, the award will include work on both the Norwegian and UK sector. The work scope includes, among other, installation of flexible flow lines and umbilicals on the Corrib field, operated by Shell Ireland. Fu
Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has secured a data licensing agreement for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’ multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. According to the company’s statement on Oslo stock exchange, the deal is worth approximately USD 3 million. EMGS will book the f
Providence Resources has applied for a 12-month extension to Licensing Option (LO) 13/04 which is located in the South Celtic Sea Basin, c. 125 km off the south coast of Ireland. LO 13/04 is situated in c. 100 metre water depth and is operated by Providence (100%). The company has applied for an ext
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be holding a Project Delivery Team (PDT) meeting for the Loxahatchee River Watershed Restoration Project Thursday, March 19 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Elsa Kimbell Environmental Education and Research Center in Hobe Sound. The Loxahatchee River Watershed Restor
Brazil’s Petrobras has announced the start-up of the early production system at Búzios Field, Santos Basin, on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. According to Petrobras, this will be the first large scale and longest-running production at the Transfer of Rights area and will be performed by FPSO Dynamic Produ
The Duck Town Council conducted a public hearing on Wednesday, March 4th 2015, to consider the establishment of two Municipal Service Districts (MSD A and MSD B) related to the Town of Duck Beach Nourishment Project. Following the close of the public hearing, the Town Council discussed the issue and
ABB has won an order worth around $130 million from DONG Energy to supply a high-voltage cable system that will bring power from the Walney Extension wind park off the northwest coast of England to more than a million people in the United Kingdom. The Walney Extension will provide additional generat
A Greater Sunrise development involving a gas processing plant on Timor-Leste shores is very viable, a senior Minister has told the Australasian Oil & Gas (AOG) exhibition and conference in Perth. The country’s Minister responsible for the petroleum industry, Alfredo Pires, told a special industry l
DONG Energy has signed an agreement with the Jan De Nul Group for the installation of subsea export cables at the Race Bank offshore wind development project in the UK. Race Bank offshore wind farm, when operational, will have a capacity of up to 580 megawatts, enough to power over 400,000 UK homes.
Statoil has chosen Maritime Communications Partner (MCP) to deploy and operate their high speed 4G-network on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Statoil and MCP have signed a six years contract with an option to extend for another four years. With that MCP will immediately start building “the wo
A full scale dredging program at Abell Point is entering its final phase, with significant progress already achieved on the project. By the start of the cruising season in May, the program will have addressed tide access areas in various locations in the south marina including O/P arm and Superyacht
Seaborn Networks, Netell Telecom, and Citatel Dutos e Fibras Opticas announced that Seaborn has acquired backhaul and metro fiber network capacity in the State of Sao Paulo from Netell and Citatel for Seaborn’s Brazil-US subsea cable. This contracted capacity provides a diverse, dark fiber backhaul
Chevron Australia has awarded DOF Subsea Asia Pacific a three years Master Services Agreement, IMR contract to work on projects on the Australian North West Shelf. DOF Subsea will deploy the DP Vessel the Skandi Protector to undertake this work supported by an extensive management, engineering and l
