Subsea Cable

NKT has finalized the manufacturing and delivery of both the export cable system and array cables for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm located in the North Sea east of Lincolnshire in the UK. The project comprises the manufacture of 100 km of 220 kV HVAC offshore export cables and 144 km of 66 kV array cables as well as installation. 

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces that is all set to supply 770 km of submarine telecom cables for the Norte Conectado project awarded by RNP, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, a Brazilian Internet provider, connecting the city of Macapá to Santarém and Alenquer, which are located in the north of the Amazon region.

NKT has finalized an offshore repair of the 450 kV HVDC power cable system BritNed connecting the national power grids of UK and the Netherlands.

VARD, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels, announces that Orange Marine has again selected ship design from VARD’s extensive design portfolio when expanding their fleet of cable ships. This time specifically designed to its purpose of fiber-optic cable repair. 

Novacavi has recently made its own technological-productive contribution to the mineral growth test started for the platform protection from corrosion and to favor colonization by marine organisms on the ENI "Viviana 1" platform, offshore Pineto (Abruzzo).

SubCom and Google announce that the deployment and testing of the Dunant submarine cable system has been completed and the system is ready for service.

NEC Corporation has delivered a submarine cable seismic and tsunami  observation system to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (CWB) under the  Ministry of Transportation and Communications. This project is based  on a contract between NEC Taiwan and the CWB. 

JDR, a global subsea umbilical supplier and servicer, owned by TFKable Group, has been awarded a contract with UMD Energy to manufacture and supply a 2.7km long subsea production umbilical for the Ledang Redevelopment Segment 2 project, offshore Malaysia.

The answer is that both can cause torsion, meaning the climbing rope or cable will start to twist. Up until now, no one could explain why this happened. However, two enthusiastic researchers, who happen to be rock climbers made it their business to solve the mystery.

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation has been awarded a contract by Torgy LNG AS to provide 190 integrated cable protection systems for Jiangsu Qidong offshore wind farm project, located in Jiangsu, China. Trelleborg’s NjordGuard cable protection system will protect inter array grid power cables on the project from over-bending, abrasion, and fatigue.

NEC Corporation announced the signing of a contract with the National Submarine Cable Utility Belau Submarine Cable Corporation (BSCC) of the Palau Republic (Palau) for the Palau Cable 2 (PC2) optical submarine cable construction project.

World-leading subsea robotics design and manufacturing specialists, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has partnered with Dutch subsea contractor N-SEA to successfully prove ground-breaking new subsea technology that could change the future of cable construction.