Grassy Point terminal project, north of Prince Rupert, gains ground as it would steer shipping traffic away from sheltered coastal waters.The Coast Tsimshian village of Lax Kw'alaams north of Prince Rupert could be poised to become a liquefied…
RigNet, Inc., specialitsts in managed remote communications signs reseller agreement with Norwegian maritime & offshore infotainment company SnapTV.'We are at a point in the oil and gas industry when media management systems, including those for crew welfare…
BMT & Adani Mining Pty Ltd (Adani) to design expansion at the Adani Abbot Point Coal Terminal at Abbot Point, north of Mackay, Queensland. The collaboration will involve BMT engineers from Australia (BMT WBM) and India (BMT Consultants (India))…
Heerema Fabrication Group contracted by Marathon E.G. Production to deliver the new Alba B3 greenfield gas compression platform.The Alba Field is a gas and condensate field located approximately 20 miles north of Bioko Island. MEGPL operates…
Inland Salvage successfully delivers salvaged jack-up drill rig which sank last winter in the Gulf of Mexico. In mid-December 2012 a retired jack-up drill rig under tow from Fourchon, LA to be dismantled in Texas began taking on water. Despite being in the crowded waters of the oilfield…
Eclipse Group Inc., of Annapolis, Md. and Seaward Services Inc., New Albany, Ind. awarded Navy contracts by the Deptartment of Defense.The Eclipse contract is valued at US$ 22,879,990, and the Seaward contract at US$ 21,849,824.Both contracts are cost-plus-fixed-fee…
DONG Energy & Siemens AG sign up to supply and service a total of 154 offshore wind turbines (OWT) of 6 megawatt each.The agreements give DONG Energy the option to install the turbines on its Gode Wind projects in Germany from 2015. Utilisation…
After 6 months of charter Marigny Tug LLC of St. Augustine, Florida has closed on the purchase of the U.S. flag tugboat “Leslie Foss”.Prior to the sale, the twin-screw, sheer bow, ocean tug “Leslie Foss” (ex-Caribe Pioneer) had been on charter from Foss Maritime of Seattle…
Increasingly lower oil demand in the U.S. prompts tankship operators to look towards the China market.According to a BIMCO review, the tanker market is doing full steam ahead – not in relation to demand, earnings or actual operating speed…
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sudamericana Agencias Aereas y Maritimas S.A. (SAAM) for joint harbour towage operations.The partnership would involve two joint ventures and is between SMIT…
Plymouth boatyard looks to refit Richard Branson's iconic 'Virgin Atlantic Challenger II' after the boat's 20-year absence from UK shores.Dan Stevens, a merchant navy master who also runs the Mount Batten ferry and harbour cruise vessels in Plymouth…
Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions AS (WTS) acquires Maritime Protection AS, strengthening its safety portfolio for the marine & offshore segments. WTS has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Maritime Protection AS (MP). Subject to certain conditions…
Comtech EF Data of Tempe, Ariz. and BAE Systems Electronics Ltd, Maritime Services Division, Portsmouth, U.K, awarded Department of Defense, Navy, contractsComtech EF Data, Tempe, Ariz., is being awarded a $7,548,254 cost-plus-incentive-fee…
Reef Subsea has secured two contracts for offshore operations in the West Africa region with a combined value of more than US$15-M. The firm’s IMR and Construction division, based in Bergen, Norway, is working with two major oil and gas companies…
AXYS Technologies Inc. deliver 8 oceanographic buoys to the Fisheries & Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland (Marine Institute ).The buoys will expand the existing ocean observing network, known as “SmartBay ”, located at Placentia Bay along Newfoundland’s southern coastline…
