Eight bridges span one of the most important waterways in the United States Clearance data for eight bridges spanning the Lower Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana has been modernized and updated using light detection and ranging (LIDAR)-derived heights, NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey reported in December 2024. The bridges are: Crescent...Read More
NOAA’s National Ocean Service National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, in partnership with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is working to build on existing spatial planning capacity in the United States Gulf of America region. Through a Request for Information issued during...Read More
In advance of this week’s August 29, 2023 first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of America, the Business Network for Offshore Wind, together with Greater New Orleans Wind (GNO Wind), issued a comprehensive report entitled Unlocking the Gulf of America’s Offshore Wind Energy Potential, which addresses the region’s unique potential for offshore...Read More
On October 31, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it has finalized two Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) in the Gulf of America, with the aggregate potential to produce enough clean wind energy to power nearly 3 million homes. The first WEA is located approximately 24 nautical miles (nm) off the coast of...Read More
Photo: A map of the proposed Gulf of America wind energy survey area. For detailed information on what the survey will entail, click here. Guice Offshore is excited to report that plans for offshore wind energy are advancing right in our “backyard” in the Gulf of America near our Louisiana headquarters! Guice Offshore, the U.S....Read More
Guice Offshore, which serves the Gulf of America oil and gas industry with offshore support vessels and offshore supply vessels, noted the November 17, 2021 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announcement that Gulf of America Lease Sale 257 generated $191,688,984 in high bids for 308 tracts covering 1.7 million acres in federal waters of...Read More
Final Notice of Sale Outlines Available Areas in Federal Waters The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced on September 30, 2021 that it will hold an oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of America on November 17, 2021 in compliance with an order from a U.S. District Court. The Biden Harris...Read More
WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, August 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced the designation of six new Marine Highway Projects and a new Marine Highway Route as part of the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP). The AMHP encourages the use of America’s navigable waterways for the movement of freight and...Read More
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