Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (January 10-17). Deepening Scheme on Delaware River Enters Blasting Phase The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, and its contractor Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company began rock blasting operati
Oil and gas giant Chevron informed it commenced the cool-down of the LNG storage and loading facilities at its US$54 billion Gorgon project on Barrow Island in Western Australia.
RasGas of Qatar said on Thursday it delivered the inaugural LNG cargo to India under the new sales and purchase agreement signed with Petronet LNG. RasGas and Petronet LNG, India’s largest importer of chilled gas, recently signed a revised deal cutting the price significantly and raising the contrac
Royal IHC has just released a video of placing the deckhouse on IHC-built trailing suction hopper dredger Jun Yang 1. The 21,028m³ TSHD, being built for CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., was launched on Saturday, 19 December 2015, at IHC’s shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. When delivered, the vess
Houston-based LNG player Cheniere said Thursday it expects first cargo from the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in late February or March 2016. The first commissioning cargo from the liquefaction and export facilty in Cameron Parish, Louisiana was initially expected to occur by late January. Accord
Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee on Wednesday approved Pakistan State Oil’s 15-year LNG sale and purchase agreement with Qatargas. According to a statement issued by the ECC, PSO has been authorized to execute the SPA. On a proposal of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Resources, the Committ
Peru’s only liquefaction facility has dispatched another cargo of liquefied natural gas to Mexico.
Argentina’s YPF has reportedly closed its tender seeking nine liquefied natural gas cargoes for delivery from January through March.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, has just released a photo of its two vessels working in the Narragansett Bay in Connecticut. For the first time ever, the debris vessel Snell and special purpose vessel Currituck worked in tandem to remove boulders from the Narragansett Bay fede
Teekay, one of the world’s largest owners and operators of liquefied natural gas carriers informed on Tuesday that during December keels were laid for its six LNG newbuilds.
ABS Group subsidiary, Genesis Solutions, has been contracted by Golar LNG to develop a maintenance strategy for the latter’s floating LNG fleet based on the GoFLNG technology.
Van Oord, a Dutch dredging company, has won the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Estuary dredging contract. The dredging operations could start as soon as 21st January – weather permitting, according to the Salcombe Harbor Authority. Adam Parnell, Harbor Master at Salcombe Harbor, said that the type of dred
Energy crippled Pakistan issued a tender seeking a second floating storage and regasification unit that would serve as the state’s LNG import terminal.
TOTE Maritime on Tuesday said its LNG-powered containership, Isla Bella, bunkered liquefied natural gas at Jacksonville Port for the first time.
