Van Oord’s next-generation green cable-laying vessel Calypso has been launched at VARD’s Tulcea shipyard in Romania. Van Oord laid the keel for its new 130-metre cable-laying vessel in December last year. The Dutch company placed an order with VARD for Calypso a year before the keel laying ceremony
Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy have secured a five-year service contract with TenneT for offshore grid connection systems and offshore substations in Germany and the Netherlands. The consortium, comprised of Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy, will be responsible for mechanical and electro-technical integ
The EuroAsia Interconnector has entered the construction stage with the launch ceremony held in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 14 October. The EuroAsia interconnector is a Project of Common Interest (PCI) under the 5th Union List comprising a 1,200-kilometer subsea cable from Israel to Crete via Cyprus. As a s
South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed official certification for its 525 kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system. According to the company, the long-term reliability (pre-qualification) test of the HVDC submarine and underground cables
Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has completed a long-term test for its 525 kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE)-insulated high-voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine cable system. The cable system was tested in accordance with the international standard CIGRE-TB496 and a third-party
Russia is considering building extra subsea natural gas pipelines to Türkiye to redirect the flows on the idled Nord Stream pipelines, Bloomberg reported Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow. According to Bloomberg, Putin stated that Russia could tran
The inauguration ceremony for the EuroAsia Interconnector, which will connect Israel, Cyprus and Greece with continental Europe, is scheduled to be held on Friday, 14 October. The EuroAsia Interconnector is a multi-terminal VSC-HVDC scheme that will connect the national grids of the three countries
Commissioning of Baltic Pipe’s receiving terminal in Western Jutland is set to be further delayed due to technical challenges. This, however, will have no impact on the gas volumes sent to Poland. The receiving terminal for gas from Norway’s Europipe II should have been commissioned this Saturday, 8
Nexans has landed a significant contract for phase one of the Empire Wind offshore wind project developed by a 50/50 partnership between BP and Equinor. This contract follows the preferred supplier agreement signed in March 2021 and covers the design and manufacturing, as well as the laying and prot
Prysmian has begun the production of over 725 kilometers of cabling for the NeuConnect interconnector that will link the UK and Germany for the first time, three months after the project reached financial close. Prysmian won a contract earlier this year to design, manufacture, install, test and comm
Gas transmission from Norway to Poland via Denmark has started through the new Baltic Pipe pipeline, Polish gas transmission system operator GAZ-SYSTEM announced on Saturday, 1 October. The flow started at 6:10 a.m. and nominations as of 1 October totaled 62.4 million kilowatt-hours/day. Baltic Pipe
An enormous amount of methane gas has been released into the atmosphere due to the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, according to a report from the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS). The methane emissions are confirmed by ICOS ground-based observations from several
Onshore cable-laying activities have started for the 500 MW Greenlink subsea and underground electricity interconnector that will link Ireland and Wales. The civil engineering work began on 5 September in Wexford, Irelan, along the project’s onshore route. Twenty-three kilometers of underground cabl
Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has won a tender for the supply and installation of a cable system that will run between the offshore and onshore substations at one of Europe’s new offshore wind grid connections. The company was selected by the German transmission system operator (TSO), 50H
