Prysmian has kicked off cable installation of the Elba Piombino project, the new subsea power cable connection between the island of Elba and the Italian mainland. The Italian company will carry out the installation by using its cable-laying vessel Leonardo da Vinci. With a length of 34 km submarine
Nexans has secured a contract to provide subsea cables for the PacWave South site, the United States’ first grid-connected wave energy test facility located offshore Oregon.
Dutch General and Military Intelligence and Security Services (AVID and MVID) have sent a letter to the government together with an update on the latest insights into activities being covertly conducted by Russia, including those that are potentially being carried out in preparation for sabotage of
Celtic Sea Power (CSP) has launched a tender for offshore survey services that would inform its project off Pembrokeshire, where CSP plans to build one or two multi-connection offshore substations to support the deployment and grid-connection of floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea. Under the te
Chinese subsea cable manufacturer ZTT Submarine Cable & System has secured a cable design and supply contract with Hokchi Energy, the Mexican subsidiary of Pan American Energy, for a field located in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract covers the design, supply, delivery, and testing of 33.3 kilometers
UAE-headquartered P&O Maritime Logistics has unveiled plans to convert one of its multi-carrying vessels (MCVs) into a cable-laying vessel (CLV) that would be used to connect offshore wind farms with the mainland. The CLV will feature an ultra-shallow draft, engineering grounding capability, and a 4
After granting three electricity interconnector licenses earlier this month, UK energy market regulator Ofgem has awarded another one, this time for a project that is set to link the UK and the Netherlands. A gas interconnector license was granted to NU-Link Interconnector UK Ltd on 9 February, auth
Seaway 7 has been awarded a contract for the transport and installation of cables on the Hai Long offshore wind farms in Taiwan. Under the contract, Seaway 7 will be responsible for the transport and installation of inter-array cables, the respective cable protection systems, and four export cables.
Offshore construction will soon continue on the South Fork offshore wind project in New York with the installation of the project’s 68-nautical mile (about 126 kilometres) submarine cable to kick off in early 2023. The work installing South Fork Wind’s submarine cable involves six stages: seabed pre
Prysmian has kicked off the construction of its new cable-laying vessel with a steel-cutting ceremony at VARD’s shipyard in Romania. The construction of the sister vessel to cable-layer Leonardo da Vinci began on 16 February at Vard Tulcea in Romania. “Prysmian Group had the honor of hitting the but
Asso.subsea has completed the installation of the 150 kV submarine cable system which will connect a 330 MW onshore wind farm on the Greek island Evia to the country’s mainland grid. The company announced on 16 February the completion of the submarine export cable installation and protection for the
Nexans has reported an all-time high adjusted backlog of €3.5 billion for its Generation & Transmission business in 2022, an increase of 51 per cent compared to 2021, said to be pulled by the Celtic Interconnector project. In the “record financial year” for the French cable maker, Generation & Trans
Seaway 7, the Renewables & Heavy Lifting business unit of Subsea 7, has been awarded a contract worth between $300 million and $500 million for an undisclosed offshore wind farm project. Under the contract, Seaway 7 will be responsible for the transportation and installation of inter-array and expor
Italy-headquartered Prysmian Group has installed thirty inter-array cables at the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The cabling contracts for the 500 MW offshore wind farm were awarded to Prysmian, which is in charge of supplying and installing both the inter-array cables and the export cables fo
