From 11 March 2014 to 16 June 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips. The audit focused on the company’s preparations and plans for permanent plugging and abandonment of the wells at Ekofisk 2/4 in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The objective of the
Working with Jumbo Offshore since January 2014, IKM Subsea now expands the partnership with Jumbo Offshore. IKM Subsea is contracted to deliver another Merlin WR200 WROVs in addition to the system already onboard. The contract includes personnel, project specific tooling, and survey service onboard
Tullow Oil plc has announced that the Hanssen wildcat well, in production licence 537, offshore Norway, has encountered a 20-25 metre oil bearing sandstone with good reservoir properties in the main target (Stø Formation). The Hanssen well was drilled about 7 kilometres northwest of the Wisting Cent
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District recently awarded a $19.9 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) to provide dredging services to protect Highway 12, the only north-south highway along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. This coastal protection project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District awarded a $1.69 million contract June 30, 2014, to Luedtke Engineering Company for maintenance dredging of Burns Harbor in Portage, Ind. Luedtke Engineering Company of Frankfort, Mich., is certified as a small business concern. The firm-fixed-price
Golar LNG Limited said that, following a successful follow-on equity offering, it has executed and made effective key agreements for conversion of the 125,000 m3 LNG carrier Hilli to a floating liquefaction vessel (FLNGV). The primary contract for the FLNGV was entered into with Singapore’s Keppel S
Genel has failed to find oil at its Hagar Qim 1 well, offshore Malta, a partner in the block has reported.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced the receipt of two dredging contracts with a combined value of $39.6 million to deepen the main channel of t
Polarcus Limited has announced that the Company has received a Letter of Intent for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project for an undisclosed client offshore South West Africa. The project, subject to the execution of a service contract, will start in Q4 2014 and is expected to run for approximatel
Stetson Oil & Gas Ltd., a Forbes & Manhattan Energy Group Company, has reported that the exclusive option agreement entered into with a private company (“Privateco”) for the option to acquire an interest in two prospective exploration blocks offshore West Africa has now been terminated. In connectio
U.S. Representatives Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) and Chris Smith (NJ-04) have strongly condemned the decision by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to grant the necessary authorization to allow a proposed seismic testing survey off of Barnegat Bay and the Jersey Shore to go forwar
A dredging project worth $20 million in the Bayou Lafourche could start in early 2015. As Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District executive director said, the project, second of this type in the last four years, could last between 16 and 18 months. As katc reports, the goal of the project is to increase
The Bronx River Alliance announced that Starlight Park, a reclaimed and expanding park which opened in 2013, has received $4.4 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to strengthen Starlight’s shoreline along the Bronx River. The money will be used to re-naturalize the shoreline, rest
Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) is raising concern about the reclamation area and zoning for ‘Hotel & Resorts’ in Tanjung Aru Beach as shown in the Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (DBKK) Local Plan 2020. The zoned area under ‘Hotels & Resorts’ as shown in the draft DBKK Local Plan for the Tanjung Aru beach ar
