Neva River News

Maritime and offshore oil & gas engineering company Harris Pye announce that it has successfully used its 360 degree3D scanner to survey the engine room of Neva River (ex Celestine River), an LNG carrier. The project involved taking a full 3D scan of the engine room in order to ascertain the best system for a ballast water treatment installation. The scan enables Harris Pye engineers to rapidly create three-dimensional images of the entire engine room, and thus create various ballast water treatment models in order to select the best for a client. The entire engine room survey took less than 5 hours, causing minimal disturbance to the crew.

About 10 tons of heating oil reportedly spilled into the Neva River after a tanker ran aground in St Petersburg, Russia, but there was no immediate threat to drinking water or the environment, officials said. The tanker, Nefterudovoz 7, belonging to a local shipping company, was carrying about 5,000 tons of oil when it ran aground on Oct. 9. Officials said the patches of oil in the water are being contained by buoys and then collected by special ships.