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Nord Stream 2 AG started the offshore preparatory works for the subsequent pipelaying in the Bay of Greifswald, Germany, today, the company said in their latest announcement. The Nord Stream 2 project concerns the construction of an offshore natural gas transmission system comprising of two 1,220 km pipelines from the Russian Baltic Sea to the German Baltic […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels
Van Oord has ordered a new subsea rock installation vessel. Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group Shanghai will build the vessel at its Ningbo yard in China. The vessel will be delivered in 2016. Subsea rock installation is a proven technique for the protection and stabilisation of offshore structures and pipelines, and is one of Van Oord’s main activities […]
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Boskalis Offshore has been awarded in joint venture a contract by the international energy company Statoil for various rock installation works up to 600 meters water depth in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The work comprises preparing the seabed for the installation of pipelines and other structures on the sea floor as well […]
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Saipem has signed new E&C Offshore contracts in Angola, Kazakhstan and North Sea, worth approximately $950 million. In Angola, Saipem has been awarded an EPCI contract by CABGOC for the Congo River Crossing Pipeline Project, to be developed off the coasts of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The scope of work includes the […]
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Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group company, has recently been awarded a $5.2m contract to supply a 12 MAN ABS Classed saturation system and 3 air diving systems for the Leighton Offshore diving project, based in the Middle East. Unique Maritime Group will provide their 12 MAN ABS Classed saturation system, complete with SPHL […]
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Business & Finance, Research & Development
The Dutcham Trade Award 2010-2011 is dedicated to Van Oord Offshore for best business achievement in Brazil. The trophy was assigned to the Dutch dredging company for their succesfull merits in the Brazilian offshore industry. At the ceremony on May 17 in São Paulo the jury of the Brasilian-Dutch Chamber of Commerce was […]
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Saipem has been awarded new offshore contracts worth approximately 700 million euro. In Nigeria, Saipem has been awarded a subcontract for the Critical Crude Pipeline Replacement Project. The awarded scope of work encompasses fabrication, transportation, installation and testing of the replacement of 6 pipe lines (having a diameter ranging between 10 and 24 inches) connecting […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels
Over the past few years, Van Oord has developed a new technique for dredging at great water depths. This Deep Excavation System (DES), patented by Van Oord, is an innovative method to prepare a sea bottom profile for installing offshore pipelines. Uneven sea beds are traditionally prepared for laying offshore pipelines by installing large volumes […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a world record. During a period of four weeks, Stornes placed rock in water depths of up to 1,277 meters. The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Aasta Hansteen gas field and Polarled pipeline in the Norwegian Sea. Van Oord […]
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Godwin Eton is joining Coastline Surveys as a Geotechnical Engineer responsible for preparation of geotechnical reports from offshore and nearshore geotechnical projects, running the soil logging facility and increasing the company portfolio to include pipeline geotechnics and soil-structure interactions. Godwin is a Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist with over seven years industry experience. He holds a BSc […]
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Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has taken delivery of a backhoe dredger with a BA 800 excavator from De Donge shipyard in the Netherlands. The backhoe dredger, DCI Dredge BH-1, cost Euros 18.5 million. The dredger was delivered on November 22nd. The Head Office of Dredging Corporation of India is strategically located on the eastern seaboard of […]
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Dragflow’s webinar on Hight Depth Dredging is set to take place on September 30, 2020. Offshore extraction and energy production activities represent a constantly evolving technical challenge. The use of wind and wave energy will make the installation of plants on the high seas more and more frequent, said Dragflow. Proper maintenance of offshore platforms […]
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FSUE Hydrographic Company and Mordraga have signed an agreement for reconstruction of the Gulf of Ob seaway canal where the Novatek’s Utrenny terminal is being built, IAA PortNews reports. The limit price under the agreement is $504 million. According to IAA PortNews, the works will last for three years – from 2020 through 2022. FSUE […]
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Union Dredgers and Marine Contracting (UDMC), a Dubai based coastal marine contracting company, has been awarded the offshore project works for a new desalination facility at Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. According to their official announcement, the scope of works will include dredging, HDPE welding, concrete block fabrication, sheet piling, installation and launching […]
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UniSite Group, a Ningbo based company involved in dredging, land reclamation, offshore projects, marine, mechanical engineering and green remediation projects, took part in some very significant projects all over the world during the last months. Just in the third quarter of 2019, UniSite successfully supported maintenance of world famous trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) and […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock’s hopper dredge Liberty Island yesterday delivered the last load of sand to eastern Emerald Isle, marking the completion of dredging/pumping activities for Phase I of the post-Florence Renourishment Project. Following the completion of the works, GLDD’ dredge Liberty Island departed the site yesterday afternoon for her next project. The project […]
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Baltic Connector Oy said in its latest release that the excavation works for the Balticconnector project were completed earlier this week. According to the official announcement, in the following days, the operations will continue with blasting work in the outer archipelago, around 20 kilometers from the shore. “By beginning preparatory work in July, we were able to save enough time […]
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Baltic Connector Oy, established to implement the Finnish part of the Balticconnector gas pipeline project between Finland and Estonia, said that the preparatory work for the offshore pipeline will proceed to the next phase, in which excavation work will be initiated on the site of the offshore pipeline. The first excavation work will be carried out […]
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Weather and mechanical factors permitting, a $10.6 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Emergency Beach Renourishment Project is scheduled to begin the week of October 2 in North Myrtle Beach. Sand will be dredged from offshore and piped on to the beach to renourish those sections of beach that do not have adequate protection. […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
Royal IHC, a Dutch company specializing in shipbuilding and equipment for maritime construction, is currently building two 895kW container booster stations for stock and rental. According to the company, the move follows high demand for immediate delivery of high-quality dredging equipment in the market. “The large demand for standardized cutter suction dredgers proves that immediate […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
James Fisher Subsea Excavation (JFSE) has developed the world’s most powerful M/CFE tool capable of trenching large diameter pipelines in a single pass – Twin T8000. This piece of equipment was developed to support SapuraKencana Mexicana’s trenching requirements, JFSE said in its latest release. The offshore construction company needed more than 14km of a 36” pipeline […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels
In the last two months of 2016, IHC saw an increase in the sale of its vessels, equipment and engineering packages. Almost half of the total order intake over 2016 was secured in this period. “We see market recovery in the dredging and renewables industry, and are positive that this will continue in 2017,” says […]
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The booth of Mordraga LLC at the exhibition “Transport of Russia – 2016” was visited by RF Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, who was told about the work performed by the company under numerous maritime infrastructure and offshore projects across the Russian Federation. According to IAA PortNews correspondent, Mordraga LLC General Director Evans Dafydd and Technical Director […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders, Technology
Following successful delivery of recent cable-lay and trenching projects for the sector, Fugro has secured three more contracts for its trenching services. The contracts will see its high performance Q1400 trenching systems deployed in the North Sea over the next 12 months. At the Wintershall-owned Maria development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
The Navarre Beach renourishment project is now officially underway, according to the Santa Rosa County, Florida. The project kicked off two weeks ago when the contractor Weeks Marine Inc. began with the mobilization of equipment. Two submerged pipelines, traveling from the Pensacola Bay staging area to Navarre Beach have made landing near the Beach Colony Resort and just east of […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology
Global Marine Systems Limited has extended its subsea capability with the acquisition of a powerful jet trenching ROV, the Q1000 Jet Trencher. The new submersible compliments the existing burial equipment portfolio and is designed for pre and post-lay trenching as well as simultaneous lay and burial in the offshore subsea cable sectors. With 1000hp of total […]
