Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has launched a project in cooperation with U.S. startup Terradepth focused on testing innovative approaches to surveying the seabed for planning environmentally friendly submarine electrical connections. As part of Project Odisseo, the first test was
Minesto has completed the Dragon 12 offshore infrastructure in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands, marking readiness for power production with the achieved connection of the export cable to the foundation. According to Minesto, completion of infrastructure subsea included re-locating the pre-installed jun
Kraken Robotics has completed a cable burial survey on behalf of Asso.subsea along the 16-kilometer export cable that runs from the Gode Wind 3 offshore substation to the Dolwin Kappa platform. The operation was conducted from the MSV Astrea, employing the advanced Sub-Bottom Imager™ (SBI). Kraken R
Elmed, set to become the first direct current (DC) connection between Europe and North Africa, has secured €45 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The €921 million project concerns the implementation of an HVDC link interconnecting Tunisia and Italy across the Strait of Sicil
Aker Solutions and the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) in Norway have signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a pilot project which will see Aker Solutions testing its new power transmission technology at the METCentre’s offshore test area that houses demonstration floati
The Viking Link electricity interconnector between the UK and Denmark has commenced operations, now transporting power between the two countries. Deemed the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector, the £1.7 billion Viking Link started commercial operations on December 29, 2023. The link has
Prysmian has commissioned the inter-array cable system for the Fécamp offshore wind farm located in the English Channel, some 24 kilometers off the French coast, in Normandy. The Fécamp offshore wind farm is comprised of 71 Siemens Gamesa SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines with a total capacity of nearly 500
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has acquired what is said to be Korea’s only cable-laying vessel (CLV) for the offshore wind market. Taihan, which announced the purchase on December 20, bought the vessel for approximately $38.4 million. The CLV, equipped with self-propulsion and a DP2 system, c
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued a planning approval decision for the DolWin4 offshore grid connection in Germany’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the North Sea. DolWin4, the first offshore grid connection system being implemented by German transmission system o
The 216-meter-long heavy lift pipelay vessel JSD 6000, designed by Ulstein and built at the ZPMC shipyard in China, has completed its sea trial and has returned to the ZPMC Changxing Base. The completed sea trial includes the testing of the marine equipment, while the sea trial to test the mission e
Reusing existing pipelines for offshore hydrogen is the best solution that can be used, however, this does come with certain challenges, according to Bart Steuten, Product Development Manager at Strohm, Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) producer. During Strohm’s presentation at The Stage at t
Norway’s PASSER Group has secured a contract to deliver a vertical lay-up machine (VLM) for the first-ever subsea power cable factory in Taiwan. PASSER Products announced it had been awarded the contract for the delivery of the VLM to the new factory in Kaohsiung. The factory, which will specialize
Van Oord has completed the installation of all foundations and inter-array cables at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen installed the final monopile in September and the company has now put all the transition
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the possibility of becoming one of the shareholders in a project to develop a 900-kilometer HVDC electricity interconnection between Greece and Cyprus. Under the terms of the MoU, TAQA will explor
