C-Innovation and Grand Isle Shipyard Awarded P&A Work
C-Innovation (C-I) and Grand Isle Shipyard, LLC (GIS) have been awarded a plug and abandonment contract by Helix Alliance Decom, LLC to provide pre-feed services for the decommissioning of three offshore platforms for a major deepwater client.In Phase I of the project, C-I provided ROV services to deliver marine water inspection and integrated the data within MODS software to provide live operations for the client operating fixed leg platforms in 165 - 200 feet of water. The GIS Aerobotics Drone Division provided aerial inspection services. The joint technical innovations aim to determine the current
Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Smaller than Usual
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium during a research cruise from July 24 to 28 aboard the R/V Pelican.“Persistent winds from the west and northwest in the few weeks preceding the cruise likely pushed the low oxygen water mass to the east and piled it towards the central shelf and towards Grand Isle. Additional winds and waves at the beginning of the cruise in the area to the immediate west of the Mississippi River delta to the area off Barataria Pass, likely mixed oxygen into these shallower waters and reduced the hypoxia,” said Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., professor at LSU and LUMCON, who
Years After BP U.S.Oil Spill: Compensation Battle Rages
Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colourful houses on stilts, says he has not found a single oyster alive in his leases in the area since the leak and relies on an onshore oyster nursery to make a living. He and others in the southern U.S. state say compensation has been paid unevenly and lawyers have taken big cuts. The British oil major
February 2024
