Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) has completed the installation of the export cable at the China Three Gorges New Energy (CTGNE) Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind project. According to NBO, the installation of two 220kV export cables was finished after 14 months and now the offshore engineering team is
Marine survey for the NO-UK submarine fibre cable between Newcastle and Stavanger is now underway. The vessel Fugro Galaxy has started survey operations in the North Sea. The survey will gather the sea-bed data required to finalise the marine route and selection of the appropriate cable types. This
Subsea 7 has secured a contract for the installation of the submarine cable system at an undisclosed offshore wind project in Taiwan. Project engineering will commence immediately at Seaway 7’s offices in Leer, Germany, and in Taipei, Taiwan, while the offshore activities are expected to commence in
Ireland-Wales Greenlink Interconnector has secured a planning consent from the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority for a portion of the project’s onshore works in Wales. This marks the first step in a series of planning consents required for the 200-kilometre subsea and underground electrici
Crosslake Fibre has started its newest subsea cable project, CrossChannel Fibre, a 550km cable to be built across the English Channel. The cable will connect Slough, United Kingdom and Paris, France. This new subsea cable is designed to support the increase in bandwidth requirements from telecoms, e
Balmoral, a provider of cable protection systems (CPS) for inter array and export cables for fixed and floating offshore wind installations, has created an integrated CPS the company reports is unique. The Discovery Unit, a combination of product R&D, materials and testing specialists, created the i
The construction phase of the Viking Link Interconnector project between the UK and Denmark has commenced. Siemens is mobilizing to start the construction of a 2.4-kilometre long access road for the Bicker Fen converter station site. Siemens Energy is in charge of the UK and Denmark converter statio
All 94 inter-array cables at the Borssele I & II offshore wind farm in the Netherlands are now installed. The installation started in February this year, ahead of schedule, Ørsted and Van Oord said, adding that the cable burial campaign will be completed in August. Van Oord carried out cable install
Hellenic Cables is on track to deliver the 135 kilometres long submarine cable for the electrical interconnection Crete – Peloponnese. The management of ADMIE recently visited the company’s plant in Corinth to check on the project’s progress. The project, with a total budget of 365 million euros, sh
Seaway 7 has selected Greece-based subsea cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables to deliver inter-array cables for the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. Under the contract with Seaway 7, the EPCI contractor for the project’s foundations and inter-array cables, Hellenic Cables will design, manufac
Halliburton and TechnipFMC have introduced Odassea, the first distributed acoustic sensing solution for subsea wells. The technology platform enables operators to execute intervention-less seismic imaging and reservoir diagnostics to reduce total cost of ownership while improving reservoir knowledge
The Carbon Trust has launched four new tenders as part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme. The first two tenders are related to monopile foundations, with the first calling for entries from interested parties to undertake a study to investigate monopile driveability through vibratory p
Offshore energy research and advisory firm Axiom has studied how the electrification of platforms can have a meaningful impact on the carbon intensity of offshore oil and gas production. The above chart highlights Axiom’s view on how the 2020-2024 fixed production market has evolved through February
RTI and NEC have jointly announced the completion of the Japan-Guam-Australia North Cable System (JGA North). JGA North is approximately 2,700 kilometres in length and lands in Minami-Boso, Japan and Piti, Guam. The cable has an initial design capacity of 24 Tbps minimum, increasing further to 30 Tb
