Panama Canal Expansion Program Update – March 2014 (VIDEO) The Panama Canal expansion project will double the capacity of the Panama Canal by 2015 by creating a new lane of traffic and allowing more and larger ships to transit. Maldives: Boskalis Wins Massive Land Reclamation Deal A contract signi
The Ocean City beach renourishment project is currently underway. The dredger R.N. Weeks is one of the two boats used for dredging in Ocean City, Md. During renourishment the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers typically places 800,000 cubic yards of sand on the beach at Ocean City every four years. Dredgi
Portugal’s Port of Sines will receive a shipment of liquefied natural gas from Algeria this week, port data shows. The GDF Suez Global Energy, with a capacity of 74,500 cubic meters, is expected to arrive at the Sines LNG import terminal on March 20. The terminal is held by REN Atlântico and has a n
This week Italdraghe will deliver a newly-built cutter suction dredger and booster station to Guyana, South America, as part of a complete dredging equipment package. The SGT 180 B cutter suction dredger and SGT 180 booster have been custom-designed and built by Italdraghe in its main shipyard to sp
Petronas of Malaysia has reportedly purchased around eighteen LNG cargoes from Galp Energia of Portugal in a recent tender. Galp Energia has recently issued a tender to sell up to 30 liquefied natural gas cargoes from Nigeria’s Bony terminal over a five-year period. Petronas has won three years of t
The Al Marrouna LNG tanker, with a capacity of 151,700 cubic meters, is expected to arrive at Belgium’s Zeebrugge LNG terminal from Qatar on March 29, port data shows. The Port of Zeebrugge recently said that the terminal’s LNG volumes fell down 21.5 percent in 2013, compared to the year before. 58
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured a US$316 million (339.3 billion won) order from Sovcomflot to build an ice-class LNG tanker to transport liquefied natural gas produced at the Yamal LNG project in Russia, DSME said in a filling to the stock exchange. DSME pla
UK’s South Hook liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG on March 22, port data reveals. The Al Kharsaah LNG tanker, with a capacity of 214,198 cubic metres, is transporting the cargo from Ras Laffan, Qatar. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a
Van Oord Nabs EUR 500 M Land Reclamation Contract (Kuwait) Van Oord has been awarded a land reclamation project in Kuwait. The client is the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and the contract value amounts to approximately EUR 500 million. IHC Merwede Launches Dredger ‘AL BAHAR’ C/D HUTA 12
Mexico has received a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Peru, ship-tracking data shows. The Sevilla Knutsen, with a capacity of 173,400 cubic meters, docked on Thursday at the Manzanillo LNG import terminal on Mexico’s west coast. The 500,000 Mc/d terminal, built and owned by a consortium of Samsu
HollandMT has developed a Plain Suction Dredger (PSD) for the purpose of dredging and deepening of inland lakes, estuaries and mining & tailing ponds. The PSD350 Plain Suction Dredger is fitted with a 350 mm dredge pipeline system and is designed for dredging up to –40 m below water level. Reduced d
Louisiana LNG Energy (LLNG) has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export two million metric tons of LNG per annum for a term of 25 years to nations without a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. The company filed an application on Febraury 5 for authoriza
Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) obtained approval in principle (AIP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the design of a 2000 cubic meter LNG combination bunkering barge. “At ABS our goal is to help designers, shipyards, and operators bring new and novel concepts to the marketplace in a s
Cott Oil and Gas said that it has received an Expression of Interest (EOI) from Wison Offshore and Marine in supporting the development of the Pandora Gas Field, in which Cott has a 40% interest, with a floating LNG. Cott has engaged Wison to deliver a concept study for an FLNG that would be suitabl
