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  • Edwin G.B. Terry has joined the sales staff of Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., a unit of Tidewater Inc., according to Sam S.

    Allgood, vice president of the worldwide offshore marine support company. Mr. Terry, who was previously vice president and director of marketing for TRW Mission Manufacturing of Houston, Texas, will be headquartered in Houston and be responsible for accounts in the Texas Gulf Coast area for the New Orleans, La.- based company.

    Mr. Terry is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. He has an extensive background in marketing and marketing research and communications, especially in the area of petroleum-related drilling and production equipment. Mr.

    Terry joins David Antill in Tidewater's Houston sales office.

  • begins initial operation on August 15, it will become the fourth shipyard owned and operated by the Morgan City, La.-based company. The Central Texas Gulf Coast location was chosen, according to Swiftships president Jerry L. Hoffpauir, for two very specific reasons. "First, tug-supply and large crewboat

  • for new construction, repair, and conversion projects for both commercial and U.S. Government customers. Conrad’s five shipyards along the Louisiana-Texas Gulf Coast provide enclosed fabrication facilities, state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, multiple drydocks, and an experienced workforce to meet the

  • provides the power needed for towing, maneuvering and docking the newer and larger tankers, LASH and containerships calling at ports along the Texas Gulf coast. Fitted with Kort nozzles and twin screws, the C.R. Haden is designed to work equally well under confined harbor conditions, in narrow ship

  • upgrading of the Bay-Houston fleet. Cecil R. Haden. president of the Houston-based firm that is now the largest harbor tug fleet operating on the Texas Gulf Coast, christened the tug Captain W.D. Haden, named after the company's founder. The other three vessels were christened by the family members

  • A Corpus Christi crew boat runs with renewed power and graceMiss Vivian has a commanding presence while plying the waters off the Texas Gulf Coast.Hardworking crew boat Miss Vivian serves offshore oil platforms and large ships moored in Corpus Christi Harbor. Owned by Sea Level Marine, Inc., in Aransas Pass

  • than a couple long days.  Nonetheless, the project met both the Owner and SOFEC expectations. “We were interested in contracting this work on the Texas Gulf Coast,” Signori said. “We were sure the proximity of SOFEC in Houston to a Gulf Coast fabricator would provide an advantage.  And given that the local

  • than a couple long days.  Nonetheless, the project met both the Owner and SOFEC expectations. “We were interested in contracting this work on the Texas Gulf Coast,” Signori said. “We were sure the proximity of SOFEC in Houston to a Gulf Coast fabricator would provide an advantage.  And given that the local

  • , which can operate using the Tier 4 main engines, generators, or both- linked to propulsion motors from ABB, has been doing escort work along the Texas Gulf Coast; a second vessel has also been commissioned.Also under construction at MBB is eWolf, an all-electric tug scheduled for delivery to Crowley later

  • was recently announced; a joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC for a new $10 billion, 1,300-acre plastics manufacturing complex on the South Texas Gulf Coast.   The project is under engineering review and design now, and when it comes to fruition it is touted to be the largest ethylene cracker in

  • was recently announced; a joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC for a new $10 billion, 1,300-acre plastics manufacturing complex on the South Texas Gulf Coast.   The project is under engineering review and design now, and when it comes to fruition it is touted to be the largest ethylene cracker in

  • MT Mar-24#33 regulated industry in the world.” How-
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    regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’

  • MT Mar-24#15 sensor options for longer mission periods.
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    sensor options for longer mission periods. About the Author For glider users working in ? sheries and conservation, Shea Quinn is the Product Line Manager the Sentinel can run several high-energy passive and active of the Slocum Glider at Teledyne Webb acoustic sensors, on-board processing, and imaging

  • MT Mar-24#9 from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of)
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    from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been

  • MR Apr-24#48  Street, 
SONAR TRANSDUCERS 
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    .com , www.siliconsensing.com Anchor Marine & Supply, INC., 6545 Lindbergh Houston, Massa Products Corporation, 280 Lincoln Street, SONAR TRANSDUCERS Texas 77087 , tel:(713) 644-1183, fax:(713) 644-1185, Hingham, MA 02043-1796 , tel:(781) 749-4800, [email protected] [email protected] Massa

  • MR Apr-24#27 RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
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    RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills

  • MR Apr-24#22 INTERVIEW 
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OSW WIND)
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    INTERVIEW WE ARE ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE US OSW WIND DEVELOPMENTS AND SEEING AN UP-TICK FOR CVA, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW AND RISK REDUCTION SERVICES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PHASES. WITH NEW LEASE ROUNDS COMING AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, WE DO NOT SEE A BIG SLOWDOWN FOR OSW DEVELOPMENTS APART FROM THE OBVIOUS

  • MR Apr-24#21 ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND
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    ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea

  • MR Apr-24#18 MARKETS
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    MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China

  • MR Apr-24#6 Editorial
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    Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.

  • MN Apr-24#40  Marshall, the 
Galveston, Texas based dredging contractor)
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    ? eet Callan Marine of dredges including the 32-inch General MacArthur, the 28-inch General Bradley, the 18-inch General Marshall, the Galveston, Texas based dredging contractor Callan Ma- rine christened its newest cutter suction dredge (CSD), 18-inch General Pershing, the 16-inch General Patton

  • MN Apr-24#37 Feature
Electric Tugs
could change down the road. “What do)
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    Feature Electric Tugs could change down the road. “What do we really need an In San Diego, eWolf’s transits will typically run 20-30 engineer to do? There are no moving parts. So, how does minutes, “not the optimal operation to really see a lot of that [role] change? How does that change where we work?

  • MN Apr-24#33 Feature
Electric Tugs
ing tug design. ABB was brought on)
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    Feature Electric Tugs ing tug design. ABB was brought on as systems integrator, and Coden, Ala. shipbuilder Master Boat Builders began building the vessel later that year. The result of these efforts is the 82-foot-long tug eWolf, built to ABS class and is compliant with U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter M

  • MN Apr-24#31  AmFELS), in 
Brownsville, Texas on Charybdis, the 
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    . Port Angeles, Wash. shipyard Platypus Marine is building a CTV on spec. Work continues at Seatrium Am- FELS (formerly Keppel AmFELS), in Brownsville, Texas on Charybdis, the sole Jones Act compliant wind tur- bine installation vessel (WTIV) un- der construction in the United States. The most recent announceme

  • MN Apr-24#30  deepening project in Freeport, Texas), and 
will enter a long-term)
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    Shipyard in late 2023 (and is working on a multi- vessel (with a Norwegian design proven in the North Sea) year harbor deepening project in Freeport, Texas), and will enter a long-term charter to turbine specialist Siemens Amelia Island, being constructed by the same shipyard Gamesa Renewable Energy

  • MN Apr-24#28 Feature
Shipbuilding 
WindServe Marine
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    Feature Shipbuilding WindServe Marine you don’t have the sustained backlog.” Previous editions of Marine News’ U.S. Shipbuilding re- port have noted the increasing concern about what ABS’s Bleiberg (moderating the Marine Money panel) called “the big push for sustainable” shipping”, adding that: “What we

  • MN Apr-24#27 Feature
Shipbuilding 
Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast)
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    Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies

  • MN Apr-24#26 Feature
ECO Edison, the ?  rst U.S.-
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    Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also

  • MN Apr-24#25 though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns)
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    though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar

  • MN Apr-24#24 Feature
Navigation 
cables, 9 miles of cables connecting)
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    Feature Navigation cables, 9 miles of cables connecting substations and up to blurred, undependable information for vessel crews. two export transmission cables with “associated secondary In the fairways Notice, the USCG references the NAS cable protection” (text is from the permit) within a 42-mile-

  • MN Apr-24#22 Feature
Navigation 
inside the approved lease area as a)
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    Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along

  • MN Apr-24#21 Feature
Navigation 
“Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the)
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    Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so

  • MN Apr-24#19 • Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing)
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    • Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing

  • MN Apr-24#17 OpEd
Shipbuilding
can industrial base. building, repairing)
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    OpEd Shipbuilding can industrial base. building, repairing, repowering and local communities at a time in which Second, the Congress must pri- maintaining ships, not to mention our maritime strength is needed more oritize stable and predictable budgets the massive supply chain that sup- than ever

  • MN Apr-24#14 Insights
tion on a couple of issues, including engine room)
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    Insights tion on a couple of issues, including engine room crew- For AWO, as an organization, what is its top ing on ATBs with automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Gua