Cabling giant Prysmian has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) cable connection in the UK. The news came shortly after it was revealed that the Italian company had been selected for Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2). Great Britain transmission grid owners SP Transmiss
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has completed an audit of the joint venture behind the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project (CCS) and some of its elements. The PSA conducted an audit of the Northern Lights joint venture and the follow-up of pipelines and subsea facilities i
LS Cable & System has signed a subsea cable agreement with Denmark’s Ørsted for the Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The contract announcement follows Ørsted’s final investment decision for the projects, taken in March 2023. The wind farms are now under construction and ar
UK-based XLCC has secured detailed planning approval to build what is said to be the UK’s first HVDC cable factory, located in North Ayrshire, Scotland. North Ayrshire Council Planning Committee granted full planning permission for XLCC’s HVDC subsea cable manufacturing operations in Hunterston, Sco
Prysmian Group has been picked as the preferred bidder for a high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable connection in the UK.
Nekkar, through the recently acquired Techano Group, has been awarded a contract to deliver an offshore crane to a newbuild cable-lay support vessel (CSV) that Sefine Shipyard is building for Norwegian shipowner Agalas. Under the contract, Nekkar will deliver a 70-tonne offshore crane capable of per
Turkish Petroleum has awarded a contract for subsurface solutions for the second phase of what is said to be one of Türkiye’s largest energy projects ever built to four companies. Subsea 7 confirmed the award of the “major” contract by Turkish Petroleum for the second phase of the Sakarya field deve
SSEN Transmission has secured a marine license for its proposed new subsea electricity superhighway along the east coast of Scotland. The Eastern Green Link 2 project, delivered in partnership with National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET), will see the creation of a subsea transmission cable fr
Ever since the first days of the Russia-Ukraine war, energy security has been one of the top global concerns and – with gas supply issues still high on the agenda and another winter coming, accompanied by recent warnings from the Dutch intelligence and NATO on potential dangers to the offshore energ
The final inter-array cable loadout has been completed for Equinor’s Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm in operation. The remaining eleven kilometres of 630mm2 dynamic cabling including accessories were loaded onto the Normand Vision, a construction support vessel (CSV) f
Japanese giants Marubeni Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, and Sumitomo Electric Industries have committed to investing a total of GBP 14.2 billion (approximately €16.3 billion) in offshore wind and green hydrogen projects, and the offshore wind supply chain in the UK. Ahead of the UK Prime Ministe
Subsea 7 has launched applications for its two-year engineering graduate program for next year which takes place in the French capital. According to Subsea 7, the Graduate Engineer Development Scheme (GEDS) involves both on and off-the-job development and exposes graduates to a variety of engineerin
Ocean Winds has signed a contract with the Australian company Sea Global and its Polish subcontractor PGNiG Gazoprojekt to prepare design documentation and obtain a building permit for offshore export cables for the BC-Wind offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The scope of the contract cover
UK-based HVDC cable company XLCC has completed model testing on its new cable laying vessel (CLV) that was announced last year and which will be deployed in the renewable energy sector. The vessel will feature battery energy storage systems and shore power to reduce fuel consumption and has been des
