Subsea Cable

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.

Global Marine, a leading provider of subsea fiber optic cable installation and maintenance solutions to the telecommunications sector, and part of the Global Marine Group, has been awarded a contract extension of SEAIOCMA (Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean Cable Maintenance Agreement) for another five years, running until 31^st December 2025.

NKT has successfully completed the second repair operation this year on the important cable connection BritNed located in the sea north of the Strait of Dover connecting the UK with the Netherlands. For NKT, the repair operation turned into some creative engineering and craftmanship due to the nature of the repair requiring repair and re-configuration of the cable system on the seabed.

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces today—following the announcement of the award on Monday, 21 June—the finalization of the contract with SOO Green HVDC Link for the supply and installation of high-voltage direct current cable systems for this first-of-its-kind transmission project to be installed underground along existing railroad rights of way.

International Ashtead Technology has entered into a global rental partnership with Switzerland-based Hydromea, the innovative subsea wireless access provider.