The Environment Agency and Leicester City Council will start work to help reduce flood risk in Leicester on Monday, 22 September. The work will take place on a section of the River Biam near the Great Central Way and will remove a build up of silt from the 2 southernmost arches of the Biam Bridge. [
Searcher Seismic in cooperation with the Philippines Department of Energy, and in conjunction with SeaBird Exploration, has announced that acquisition of the Mialara 2D seismic survey, East of Palawan in the Philippines has started. The ~5,000 km survey over a 10 by 10 km grid in the Mialara sub-bas
Petroceltic International plc has announced that a joint venture comprising Petroceltic and Edison International Spa was the successful bidder for the North Port Fouad Block, offshore the Nile Delta, in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2013 International Bid Round. North Port Fouad (Block 7)
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract from an oil and gas company worth USD 1.0 million for acquisition of 3D EM data in the Norwegian Sea. The Company will be using the vessel Atlantic Guardian. Acquisition is scheduled to be completed early in October, after which the vess
JND Thomas Company, Inc. of Riverdale, CA and Orlando, FL has now been dredging and mechanically dewatering for more than 45 days, averaging well over 1,000 insitu cubic yards of hazardous contaminated sediment removed per day from the Machado Lake. Lake water returned from JND’s dewatering plant ba
Dolphin has received confirmation from the Export Control Division of the Norwegian Foreign Department that the recently announced contract in the Kara Sea is not subject to the current trade restrictive measures against Russia. Atle Jacobsen, Dolphin CEO, stated: “Dolphin is extremely appreciative
Dolphin Group ASA has received confirmation from the Export Control Division of the Norwegian Foreign Department that the recently announced contract in the Kara Sea is not subject to the current trade restrictive measures against Russia. Atle Jacobsen, Dolphin CEO, quoted: “Dolphin is extremely app
Oman Drydock Company (ODC), one of the largest ship repair yards in the Middle East, said it has completed work on the Ibra LNG tanker, owned by Oman Shipping Company (OSC). It is the first membrane containment LNG vessel to be repaired at the yard after ODC passed stringent tests, to be awarded the
Deep Sea Supply, a Cyprus-headquartered owner of offshore support vessels, has announced that on Thursday 18 September the company took delivery of the newbuilding Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) ‘Sea Triumph’. The vessel ‘Sea Triumph’ is a STX 05-L design built at Cochin shipyard in India. Main charac
Short mobilisation and efficiency were the key requirements of a transportation and installation contract recently undertaken in Rio de Janeiro by heavylift specialists ALE. The remit was to install an accommodation module which weighed 1,538t and a service module weighing 702t on the Petrobras P-74
Sevenson Environmental Services, Inc, Niagara Falls, New York, has been awarded a $14.3 million firm-fixed-price contract for environmental dredging of the Atlantic Wood Industries Superfund Site, Portsmouth, Virginia. The contract also includes handling of approximately 330,000 cubic yards of dense
Vroon Offshore has informed that, on Wednesday 10 September, Vroon’s newbuilding ERRV, VOS Famous, was launched in China. This 50‑m ERRV (emergency response and rescue vessel) is currently under construction at Nanjing East Star Shipyard. VOS Famous is the fourth in a ten-vessel newbuilding programm
Secretary-General Nii Odunton accompanied by his Deputy and Legal Counsel, Michael Lodge, had the opportunity to visit the Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) facility in Newcastle upon Tyne on 4 September 2014, to get a look at Nautilus Minerals’ Polymetallic Sulphides Mining Technology. The newly assemble
GE Oil & Gas announced a more than $300 million contract with Petrobras for the first supply of the subsea manifold systems for Brazil’s pre-salt fields, located offshore in water depths up to 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). This award includes eight manifolds that will be designed with retrievable injec
