Subsea Cable

SubCableWorld (SCW), the definitive data and information source for the submarine cable industry, has published a new report and forecast for the US offshore wind cable market.

Global Offshore, a leading provider of cable installation, repair and trenching services to the offshore renewables, utilities and oil & gas markets, and part of the Global Marine Group, has been awarded a contract for the installation and burial of 27 array cables at Parkwind’s Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm.

Global Marine has completed the initial subsea fiber-optic cable route survey scope for the Scottish Government’s Reaching 100% Program (R100), being delivered by Openreach on behalf of BT. The project covers inter-island connections between Orkney, Shetland, and the Inner Hebrides as well as two connections back to the Scottish mainland.

HIGHVOLT Prüftechnik Dresden GmbH and JDR Cable Systems, part of the TFKable Group, announces the adoption by JDR of a state-of-the-art Resonant Test System (RTS) to support its offshore windfarm commissioning projects.

SubCom has completed the deployment process for SPSC/Mistral, and that the new undersea cable system is officially ready for service.

Global controls technology company Proserv Controls has received industrial sponsorship for its disruptive subsea cable condition monitoring system for the offshore wind segment, ECG™, or Electro Cable Guard, from ScottishPower Renewables (SPR).

Controlled flow excavation (CFE) and suspended jet trenching specialist, Rotech Subsea, has completed major de-burial and post-lay trenching works on a key interconnector cable in the southern North Sea for a leading cable player.

Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid Renewables, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), today announced that Jan De Nul Group, together with its subcontractor JDR Cable Systems part of the TFKable Group, had been selected to supply and install the roughly 130 miles of inter-array cables for the Vineyard Wind 1 project. The 66kV inter-array cables connecting 62 GE Haliade-X turbines will transfer electricity to an offshore substation for transmission to the grid.

Prysmian Group has announced the delivery of the record-breaking vessel Leonardo da Vinci.

TPG Telecom and Infinera has announced a major technology upgrade of TPG Telecom’s submarine cable connecting Australia and Guam to significantly boost cable capacity and improve reliability leveraging Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution.

Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract worth above €60 million by Ørsted — the world’s largest offshore wind farm developer— for the design, supply, termination and testing of inter-array submarine cable systems for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms. The completion of both projects is expected by 2024.

Jan De Nul Group’s Cable Laying Vessel Willem de Vlamingh has successfully installed the four export cables with a total length of 34 km on the 376MW Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This milestone marks the next step in the development of the Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm.