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Duxbury: Public comment period opens for proposed dredging project
(959watd) A proposed dredge of the Duxbury Harbor would remove an estimated 135 thousand cubic yards of sandy and silty material from Duxbury Bay. “The United States Army Corp. of Engineers is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Duxbury Harbor Federal Navigational Project in Duxbury, Mass.,” said New England District spokesman Tim Dugan. Dugan says the proposed ...read full story...
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Recruiting fresh talent for the dredging industry
Within the maritime infrastructure industry, the companies that comprise the International Association of Dredging Companies are known for their high-levels of expertise. But outside the industry dredging in general is often little known and undervalued. Important progress is being made to communicate the dynamism of the dredging sector to a new generation and to underscore how essential dredging is to improve a country’s socioeconomic well-being and living standards.
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Important Australian contract
(Van Oord) Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 3rd September 2010 – Van Oord was recently awarded the dredging works for the Cape Lambert Port B Project by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. The project comprises the construction of a new port facility adjacent to the existing Cape Lambert Port facility in Western Australia.
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Offshore firm IHC hopes for return to profit
(nebusiness) Offshore engineering specialist IHC Engineering Business (EB) is “absolutely” confident of being back in profit this year after investment in new technology and the opening of a new site pushed it into the red. Figures just published by the Northumberland-based business show it made a pre-tax loss of £2.8m in the 12 months to September 30 last year, compared with a £2m profit in ...read full story...
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Flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes launched
(Van Oord) On 20 August 2010, flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes was launched at the CIMC Raffles yard in Yantai, China. A naming ceremony will be held at a later date. Final building operations will be conducted at the same yard. The ship is scheduled for completion in 2011 after which it will be operational on the offshore market.
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Orion Marine Group Announces the Christening of its Newest Dredge
(GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Orion Marine Group, a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced the christening of its newest dredge the Linda LaQuay. Orion Marine Group will christen the dredge Linda LaQuay Friday morning, August 27, 2010, in its new north yard in Port Lavaca, TX. The dredge Linda LaQuay, is a 24" cutter suction dredge with the capability of dredging depths up ..read full story...
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Sand berm defense gets $60 million financing installment
(Nola) Louisiana received its third $60 million check from BP on Tuesday to pay a share of the cost of building berms along barrier islands, and the state's coastal czar again defended the controversial use of sand as an effective tool in capturing oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...read full story...
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Jan De Nul is awarded the Pacific Entrance North Access channel works
 On Monday August 16th Jan De Nul NV was awarded one of the last large tenders for the Panama Canal Expansion. Jan De Nul is already very active in Panama and is a.o. working on the construction of the new locks on the Panama Canal, one of the most prestigious infrastructure works in the world.
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ECNEC gives nod to dredging scheme under $ 1b Indian loan
(Thefinancialexpress-bd) he government Tuesday approved a project under the much-talked-about one-billion-dollar Indian credit aiming to procure dredgers for improving river draught on the Kolkata-Ashunganj water route to facilitate transshipment. The government's highest body on project approval -ECNEC-also endorsed the cross-border power transmission grid scheme, which would be ...read full story...
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Manila lawmaker probes Belgian dredger
(Allvoices) MANILA, Philippines- A militant lawmaker wants a Belgian dredging firm to be investigated on the controversial 3-million dredging contract in Laguna Lake. Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano last week filed House Resolution No.203 directing the House Committees on Oversight and Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources to conduct an investigation on the P 18.7 billion loan agreement between the ...read full story...
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Two new offshore windfarm contracts signed by Nordsee GeoSea |
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 |
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(DEME) The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh - GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the Trianel West Borkum II wind ...read full story... |
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Trelleborg supports worlds first full scale floating wind turbine |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 |
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(Subseaworld) Statoil’s innovative new offshore floating Hywind wind turbine, now successfully moored in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast, is demonstrating how Trelleborg Offshore’s syntactic foam buoyancy technology is contributing to the future of offshore power generation. “It is subsea technology that has already been extensively proven,” commented Gary Howland, Renewables ...read full story... |
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France: 10bn Euro offshore wind plan sets sail |
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Friday, 27 August 2010 |
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(businessgreen.com) The French government is set to announce plans for a €10bn (£8.2bn) offshore wind farm building programme that will see 600 wind turbines erected at 10 sites off the coast of France over the next five years. An unnamed official told reporters yesterday that ministers were putting the finishing touches to the plan and would launch a tender for contracts to build and operate the wind ...read full story... |
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Teesside switched on to wave power |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
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(nebusiness.co.uk) SUBSEA trenching boss behind a world leading wave power project says Teesside could be to tidal energy what Aberdeen is to oil and gas. Daryl Lynch, managing direct of Darlington’s CTC Marine, said the area could become a powerhouse for tidal power technology and other offshore renewables. His comments come as the massive cables for the £42m Wave Hub - the world’s ...read full story... |
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First turbine installed at Walney offshore wind farm |
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Monday, 19 July 2010 |
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(New Energy Focus) Energy giant DONG Energy has announced that the first turbine has been installed at its Walney 1 offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Cumbria. Walney 1 is one half of a two wind farm project being developed by Danish company DONG in the Irish Sea, which is intended to have a combined capacity of 367.2MW when it becomes fully operational in 2011. The first of 51 turbines was ‘jacked-up' in ...read full story... |
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Floating offshore wind farm planned for Scottish coast |
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 |
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(windpowermonthly) UK: Norwegian company Statoil is planning to build an offshore wind farm using floating turbines developed for its HyWind project off the northeast coast of Scotland, according to reports. The move follows last year's installation of a test turbine in Norwegian coastal waters with a depth of 220metres. The turbine is a Siemens 2.3MW machine ...read full story... |
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DONG builds 400 MW offshore wind farm in Denmark |
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
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(Renewable Energy Focus) DONG Energy has been awarded the concession to build the 400 MW Anholt offshore wind farm off the island of Anholt in the Kattegat, Denmark. The offshore wind farm represents a total investment of around DKK 10 billion (~€1.34bn). The offshore wind farm could provide around 4% of Denmark’s power consumption. Siemens Wind Power will provide 111 of its 3.6 MW offshore ...read full story... |
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ScottishPower awards seabed survey contract |
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
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(heraldscotland) Glasgow-based ScottishPower Renewables has kicked off its massive drive into offshore energy by awarding the first contract for seabed surveys at its East Anglian wind farm. ScottishPower, part of Spanish group Iberdrola, and partner Vattenfall have hired Great Yarmouth company Gardline Hydro to survey the site 42 kilo-metres offshore. The first stage of the project will provide ...read full story... |
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Lamprell wins $129 mln wind-turbine vessel contract |
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
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(Reuters) - British oil services firm Lamprell said it won a $129 million contract to construct a wind turbine installation vessel as the company builds on its foothold in the growing offshore wind sector. Lamprell said on Friday the engineering, procurement and construction contract award from Seajacks 3 Ltd would see it deliver the vessel in 2012. The FTSE 250 engineering company primarily operates in ...read full story... |
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Funding deal for up to 60 wind farm support vessels |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
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(Maritime Journal) North Wales UK based offshore wind farm support vessel specialists OWPMS has partnered with the Brook Henderson Group, a leader in mission critical asset services, in order to provide a bespoke package for offshore wind farm operators, focusing on vessel supply during the construction and operation and maintenance phases throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Brook Henderson is ...read full story... |
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