NeuConnect, a new interconnector between the UK and Germany, has received permits from the relevant Dutch authorities for works offshore the Netherlands. A section of the project’s subsea cabling route will pass through Dutch waters in the North Sea, requiring a Water Permit and a Nature Permit, whi
Singapore-headquartered subsea engineering company G8 and South Korean industrial business group Holim Tech have entered into an agreement to develop a 1.5 GW of offshore wind project paired with lithium-ion energy storage system in South Korea. “We are pleased to initiate the commercial execution o
The gas-in procedure for the second string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been completed, according to a project update from 29 December. The string is filled with circa 177 million m3 of so-called technical gas, reaching a pressure of 103 bar in the pipeline, said to be as planned and in line wi
Jan De Nul and Samsung C&T consortium has secured a contract, regarded as the biggest cable installation contract in Jan De Nul’s history, to deliver an HVDC cable and convertors package for the $3.6 billion ADNOC-TAQA Lightning Project.
Norwegian Electric Systems (NES), part of HAV Group, has secured a contract with ship engineering company Peak Marine Tech to supply the battery and control systems for the converted Fjord Connector cable lay vessel (CLV) to enable zero-emission operations.
Transmission system operators 50Hertz Transmission and Svenska kraftnät have issued a tender seeking a contractor for submarine cable for the Hansa PowerBridge project, a 300-kilometre HVDC interconnector between Sweden and Germany.
Sevan SSP has revealed its concept was chosen for the Equinor-operated Wisting field development in the Barents Sea.
Offshore cable solutions provider Oceanteam has secured a contract with a Chinese client to transport subsea cables from China to the Netherlands.
SSEN Transmission and the National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) have submitted a Final Needs Case (FNC) to Ofgem for the first of two subsea electricity transmission HVDC links that will connect Scotland and England. If the Final Needs Case is approved, it will be followed by the Project Ass
Hitachi Energy has won a major contract for what is said to be the first-of-its-kind high-voltage, direct current (HVDC-VSC) subsea power transmission system in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. As part of the order from Samsung C&T Corporation, Hitachi will connect ADNOC’s offshore op
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has commenced an eight-week public hearing for the Baltic Pipe environmental impact assessment (EIA) report and a draft of the new environmental permit. To remind, the Danish Environmental and Foods Appeal Board repealed the environmental permit for Baltic
Taiwan’s Dong Fang Offshore will convert the Construction and Flex Lay vessel, Polar Onyx, purchased from GC Rieber Shipping, into a cable laying vessel. Polar Onyx is the first flexible lay vessel owned by a Taiwanese owner, and will be the first vessel of its kind to fly the Taiwanese flag once re
Nexans has won a turnkey contract with Ocean Winds to design, manufacture, install and protect the 220kV subsea and onshore export cable system for the Moray West offshore wind farm. The Moray West project is an 860 MW offshore wind farm in the outer Moray Firth, located off the northeast coast of S
Prysmian Group has secured two offshore wind cabling projects in the US for a total of approximately $880 million. Both projects have been awarded by Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The first cabling project will connect the 80
