J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. has begun work on a significant dredging project along the Providence River, reports the Providence Foundation. The project is being done jointly by the City of Providence, the Nature Conservancy, the Coastal Resources Management Council, 195 Redevelopment District Commiss
Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, entered into a long-term time charter with Gunvor for its LNG newbuild.
Nexans Skagerrak, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexans Norway, has declared a charter extension for the CSV Polar King with GC Rieber Shipping. The five-month extension makes the charter firm until July 2020. This comes after the previous charter extension by four months, announced in October. The ex
Shearwater GeoServices has secured a seismic acquisition contract by Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) in the Black Sea. The survey covers an area of approximately 600 sqkm in the western Black Sea. The one-month project will start in Q4 2019 and will be conducted by the Polar Empress. “We are very pleased
The Dutch oil and gas firm ONE-Dyas has concluded its negotiations with the Gabonese authorities to extend its participation in the Kowe offshore block.
Polarcus has secured an award of an XArray marine seismic acquisition project in Malaysia. The project is planned to start late December 2019. It will have a duration of approximately four months. Following this award, the Polarcus core fleet is fully booked to early Q2 2020, the company noted. Pola
Maersk Supply Service has secured an integrated FPSO tow and mooring installation project for an operator in the North Sea. The work scope includes project management, engineering and offshore execution involving six anchor handling tug supply and subsea support vessels. Maersk Supply Service will p
The Hague-based LNG giant Shell has signed a deal to supply liquefied natural gas to Teekay’s LNG-fueled shuttle tankers in Europe.
Energinet has contracted Ramboll to carry out the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and environmental investigations for the Thor offshore wind project in Denmark. Ramboll will provide a SEA of the plan for the Thor project, as well as a number of surveys and technical reports on specific env
Rolls-Royce and VPower Group have signed a landmark deal for the supply of high-efficiency gas power generation equipment of the MTU brand.
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock LLC has restarted sand-placement operations along the Virginia Beach oceanfront. According to the Army Corps’ Norfolk District, the contractor is pumping sand at 57th Street with construction advancing north toward 70th Street. USACE also added that this week, 57th to 65th
DOF Subsea said it has secured several contracts in the Asia Pacific region, securing 130 days vessel and resource utilisation into Q1 2020. The contracts, for undisclosed clients in New Zealand and South East Asia, will see Skandi Hercules start operations in December 2019 for a major operator. In
Osbit has been awarded a contract by Sapura Energy to design and build an offshore wind turbine pile gripper system. The pile gripper will initially be used to support the development of WPD’s Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The system will be installed on Sapura Energy’s heavy lift vessel and
Electrical installation company Correll Services has recently been awarded a contract by Jan De Nul for the subsea & land cable termination & testing works on the Changhua Demonstration offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This is the company’s second job only weeks after completing its first project in Ta
