Geco Orion Sets New Towing Record
Schlumberger announced Geco Orion has become the first seismic vessel in the industry to tow 3,281 ft. spread unassisted. The spread was accomplished by deploying six 26,246 ft.
Fred Wahl to Build Again
Fred Wahl, whose Oregon yard built two Bering Sea aft-house crab boats last year, is starting in on a quite different pot fishing boat to work off the U.S. west coast.
Donjon Awarded Navy Salvage Tug Lease
The U.S. Navy has awarded Donjon Marine Co. Inc. a five-year lease of tug USNS Powhatan. The multi-purpose tug can conduct long-distance tows and when augmented with additional crew and equipment…
Guido Perla Provides Design for Crowley Tugs
Guido Perla and Assoc., Inc., has recently completed contract design for Crowley Maritime Corp.'s subsidiary Vessel Management Services' series of three PRT Class…
Snohomish Starting to Take Shape
The new passenger-only vessel being built at Dakota Creek Shipyard in Anacortes is beginning to look like a real ferry. As January drew to a close, Dakota Creek…
Halter Wins $53.6 Million Contract
Halter Marine Inc. of Halter Marine Group, Inc. Gulfport, Miss. has been awarded a $53.6 million contract from the U. S. Navy to build a T-AGS 60 class oceanographic research ship.
Repowers on The Ohio
James Marine, Inc., a marine service in Paducah, Ky., located at mile 5 on the Tennessee River; operates a diesel rebuilding service, mid-stream, fuel and grocery…
Search and Rescue Boat Passes Rollover Test
MetalCraft Marine Inc. has successfully completed the key rollover test on the first of a series of new severe service search and rescue boats for the Canadian Coast Guard. The 47-ft.
Fab Four
Imagine running your car 20 hours a day, seven days a week, for most weeks of the year. Oh, and your vehicle is at least 18 years old, and has been running the same demanding schedule all those years.
Marine Joiner Contractors
Mark A. Robicheaux, Inc., Marine Joiner Contractors, located in Morgan City, La., provides custom marine joiner services. Two companies have been added to the service…
Marine Deckhead System
Stretch Ceilings (UK) Ltd., suppliers of Barrisol Stretch Ceilings, has intoduced a deckhead system set to revolutionize design, construction and fitting-out techniques…
New Contract for Marine Interior Systems
Marine Interior Systems, an operation of Insulations, Inc., of New Orleans, La., has won the contract to perform the joiner work on a "new generation" 267' platform supply vessel for Halter Marine…
Making Virtual Reality of the Horseshoe Bossier City Casino Riverboat
When commercial designer Bauer Interiors hired the architectural firm of Landry and Lewis in Hattiesburg, Miss. to provide interior drawings of Horseshoe Casino's new riverboat…
Sensitive Site Mapping
The State of California has mandated programs requiring contingency plan holders to identify protective response strategies for environmentally sensitive sites throughout the state.
Dispersants
Government and industry agree chemical dispersants can be combined with mechanical recovery to shorten clean up time and reduce the cost of cleaning up spills. Recent…
Weir Disk Skimmer
Boom has contained the spilled oil while the weir disk skimmer's oliofelic disk passes through the oil. The oil adheres to disks which is squeezed off to a trough…
Advancing Belt Skimmer
An advancing belt skimmer is shown port side aft of NRC Guardian. This skimmer is designed to pick up the oil product on a conveyer belt. The conveyer belt carries…
Eight-Band Rope Mop Skimmer
NRC Guardian demonstrates an Eight-Band Rope Mop Skimmer system. Rope is dragged through the spilled oil. During this process oil adheres to the rope fibers. Just…
Oliofelic Recovery Technology
The use of oliofelic recovery technology has been used to a much greater extent than ever before. Equipment that is presently available necessitates the use of skimmers…
Are They In Synch?
Recent spills in the Gulf of Mexico have demonstrated how tried and true oil spill recovery has combined with chemical dispersant technology to combat oil spills.
