Subsea Cable

Cables specialist Nexans Norway AS has won a comprehensive design, engineering, production and installation contract to supply high-voltage transmission cables both offshore and on land for the Seagreen offshore wind farm under development off Scotland.

Ailes Marines in charge of the development, construction, installation and operation of the offshore wind farm in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, has awarded Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry with a contract worth of about €80 million to provide the submarine inter-array cable systems for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France.  

Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI)’s Project Management Team, in partnership with Speedcast Communications, Inc has announced the successful completion of Phase 1 (Engineering) for a private communication cable system offshore East Africa. This marks an important milestone for the Speedcast communications project.

Prysmian Group has been awarded by ARIADNE INTERCONNECTION, a company fully owned by the transmission system operator for Greece’s power grid (IPTO), a contract, worth in total €270 million for submarine interconnections between the island of Crete and mainland Greece (Attica region). 

North Shields based manufacturer, Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) recently handed over a purpose-built pre-lay plough to marine service providers Boskalis, for use at Ørsted’s offshore wind farm Hornsea Two.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has finalized a contract for a project awarded by Vattenfall, a leading European energy company, to provide the submarine inter array cable systems for the Hollandse Kust Zuid III and IV offshore wind farm in The Netherlands, following Vattenfall’s successful bid for the permit to develop these non-subsidized wind farms.

Matt Ogden, Cable Gland Product Specialist at Hawke International, the leading manufacturer of glands for harsh and hazardous conditions, talks to us about the importance of implementing a cable gland strategy in these environments and what factors need to be considered beforehand.

Seaborn Networks (Seaborn), a leading developer-owner-operator of transoceanic subsea fiber optic cable systems, and Jacksonville’s Network Access Point (JaxNAP), servicing specific needs datacenter needs and local area networks in Northeast Florida, announced today that the JAX NAP (Jacksonville Network Access Point) will host Seaborn as their endpoint for the AMX-1 Subsea cable between Jacksonville, Florida and Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI)’s Cable Operations and Maintenance Support division has announced the successful Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for an offshore oil and gas fiber optic connection in Colombia.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, launches the world’s first commercially available 180µm fiber cable.

Trelleborg’s applied technologies operation supports windfarm development with NjordGuard, an innovative integrated cable protection system specifically designed and developed to protect offshore windfarm power cables.

NOVACAVI reports an increasing demand of purpose-built cables for drones and robotic vehicles.