788 results found for 'undersea cables'

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  • AU: Kangaroo Island explores tidal, wave energy options

    12 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Institute for Sustainable Futures, in partnership with Kangaroo Island Council, is undertaking a study on whether Kangaroo Island in South Australia can switch to 100% renewable energy.

  • Top News of the Week of Sep 09 – Sep 15, 2013

    15 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    1. Fugro Acquires DCN Global LLC Fugro has reached agreement to acquire DCN Global LLC (‘DCN Global’), a company specialising in the provision of subsea engineering and diving services to the offshore civil and oil & gas industry, primarily in the Middle East. 2. BP Awards Over £1 Bln in Contracts for Re-Development of Quad […]

  • TE SubCom Wins MainOne Cable System Extension Project

    21 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has secured a contract from connectivity and data center solutions provider, MainOne, to extend its active submarine cable system into West Africa’s francophone region with two additional branches connecting Senegal (Dakar) and Cote D’Ivoire (Abidjan). These new branches will connect to MainOne’s 7,000km cable system, which extends from Portugal […]

  • USA: CCAN to Hold Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Seminar

    23 May 2012
    Human Capital

    The ‘Offshore Wind Projects in Mid-Atlantic Region’ seminar is scheduled for Thursday, May 24 in Washington. Markian Melnyk (Atlantic Wind Connection) will detail the project of wind farms from northern New Jersey to southern Virginia to be built in phases over a 10-year period. Keith Harrington (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) will focus on the proposed wind farm in […]

  • EUROGATE Wilhelmshaven to Add 50 Pct More Workers

    25 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    European container terminal operator EUROGATE plans to increase its labour force at Germany’s deep-water port of Wilhelmshaven by 50 percent. “The extensive recruitment programme foresees increasing the number of employees at EUROGATE’s Wilhelmshaven location from 400 at present to 600 as part of an agenda for the future,” the company said. The need for more workforce […]

  • NKT to Supply Export Cable for Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm

    19 November 2018
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    NKT has signed an export cable Pre-Construction Agreement (PCA) for delivery and installation of export cable system to the UK offshore wind farm project Inch Cape. The project is being developed by Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Ltd, a subsidiary of Red Rock Power. The PCA is signed in a consortium with Boskalis Subsea Cables & Flexibles. The PCA […]

  • Eidesvik and DEME shake hands for ship management agreement extension

    5 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Eidesvik Offshore has signed an extension to its ship management agreement with DEME for the construction support vessel (CSV) Viking Neptun. Eidesvik has provided full technical management, crewing and operation of Viking Neptun since December 2022 and this agreement extends the firm period to January 2027. The three-year extension agreement also includes a two-year option […]

  • ABB Participates in AWEA Offshore Windpower Expo (USA)

    12 October 2011
    Storage

    ABB, the wind industry’s leading power technology solutions provider, announced its full support for the emerging offshore wind market in North America at AWEA Offshore Windpower Expo, held this week at the Baltimore Convention Center. ABB is demonstrating several of its major technological breakthroughs at this week’s event, held October 11-13. These technologies include ABB’s […]

  • UK: E.ON to Install Humber Gateway Onshore Cable

    4 May 2012

    E.ON is taking the next step in construction of its £736m Humber Gateway wind farm and will soon begin laying the onshore cable, which will be used to connect the offshore turbines to a new onshore substation at Salt End. The wind farm which will be located 8km off the East Yorkshire coast, is due […]

  • Inch Cape Picks NKT and Boskalis for Export Cable Work

    19 November 2018
    Project & Tenders, Storage

    The consortium of NKT and Boskalis Subsea Cables & Flexibles has signed a Pre-Construction Agreement (PCA) for the delivery and installation of an export cable system for the 784MW Inch Cape offshore wind project in the UK.

  • Underwater Power Transmission Projects to Increase Five Times by 2020 (USA)

    7 November 2011
    Storage

      While the high-voltage submarine cable sector remains a niche market, underwater power transmission is becoming more prevalent in the infrastructure plans of countries around the world. The current push for more readily available renewable power has created new opportunities – for grid interconnections and connecting offshore wind farms to nearby landmasses, for example – […]

  • USA: Submarine Electricity Cable Projects Will Increase by 2020, According to Pike Research

    7 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      While the high-voltage submarine cable sector remains a niche market, underwater power transmission is becoming more prevalent in the infrastructure plans of countries around the world. The current push for more readily available renewable power has created new opportunities – for grid interconnections and connecting offshore wind farms to nearby landmasses, for example – […]

  • Ground for COBRAcable Broken in Denmark

    10 October 2016
    Storage

    Danish Energy Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt and Chairman of Energinet.dk, Kim Andersen, broke ground for the COBRAcable today, thus marking the start of works on the subsea interconnector between Denmark and the Netherlands.  The groundbreaking event took place at the site of Energinet.dk’s high-voltage station in Endrup at Esbjerg. From 2019 onwards, two parallel 325km long cables will send power […]

  • Jumbo, BBC Chartering Team Up in Global Project Alliance

    17 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Dutch heavy lift shipping company Jumbo and Germany-based BBC Chartering are joining forces in a strategic co-operation, the Global Project Alliance, effective immediately. Under the agreement, the parties would combine heavy-lift expertise and fleet capacity in an effort to “provide comprehensive solutions to customers on a global scale.” The partners will focus on offering their combined solutions […]

  • New Zealand: Royal Boskalis Takes Part in CRP’s Undersea Mining Project

    30 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) will take a 20 percent shareholding in Chatham Rock Phosphate and assume a seat on the board, in a world-first for the undersea mining industry. It is the first time a major dredging company has taken a substantial equity position in an undersea mining project. Boskalis has been issued shares […]

  • Swathe Services Becomes AUV-S UK and Europe Distributor

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Advanced Undersea Vehicles and Systems (AUV-S) LLC based in Houston, Texas has appointed Swathe Services as exclusive sales distributor for the UK and Europe. AUV-S combines up to the minute technology and state of the art engineering to provide the offshore industry with safe and reliable autonomous products including the highly versatile Multi-purpose Unmanned Surface […]

  • Celtic Array Launches Consultations for Rhiannon OWF

    21 March 2014

    Celtic Array has yesterday launched the second round of consultation for the proposed Rhiannon offshore wind farm. With an estimated capacity of up to 2.2 GW, the Rhiannon wind farm would be located some 19km off the coast of Anglesey and would be capable of producing enough energy to serve the needs of around 1.5 […]

  • Maersk Group Delivers Best Result Ever

    23 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Maersk Group today presents a profit of USD 5 billion. “Our people have done a truly great job,” says Group CEO Nils S. Andersen. In 2011, the Group will focus on expanding business and maintaining high profitability. Thanks to increased competitiveness and a rebound in the global economy, the Group delivered a profit of […]

  • ASN to Build Cable Infrastructure for Subsea Laboratory Off Sicily

    30 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has signed a contract with Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucelare (INFN) for the construction of a subsea cable infrastructure  for the IDMAR project. The IDMAR project involves the construction of a multidisciplinary underwater laboratory distributed for scientific and technological research in the marine environment, hosted by the KM3NeT project, the […]

  • Hydro Group Appoints President of Its US Subsidiary

    14 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Subsea cable and connector specialist, Hydro Group, has appointed William (Bill) Mildon, as president of newly formed Hydro Group Systems – a wholly owned subsidiary in Pinellas County, Florida. With nearly 40 years’ experience in undersea product development, Bill has most recently held the position of a technical director at Nest Technical Services. In his new […]

  • Top Interviews of 2017

    2 January 2018
    Equipment

    In 2017 Subsea World News team spoke with some of the biggest names in this large industry which is now expanding to deliver its technology know-how to other sectors while it expects the new oil market environment to start picking up in the near future. As the activity shifted for oil, subsea power and telco […]

  • SubCom Starts Upgrading SJC Submarine Cable System

    13 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, and the SJC Consortium have announced that SubCom, the supplier that will perform the upgrade for SJC, has begun implementation of a network upgrade to the Southeast Asia-Japan Cable submarine cable system. The upgrade to the 8,986 km system brings […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent, Quintillion to Build Subsea Cable in Alaska

    29 July 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and Quintillion Subsea Holdings LLC have entered into a turnkey contract for the design and construction of a submarine cable system from Prudhoe Bay to Nome. ASN has started marine route survey and installation activities for the implementation of the system. With a capacity of at least 10 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) per fiber […]

  • Maersk Oil 2010 Profit Soars on Oil Price Increase (Denmark)

    23 February 2011
    Business & Finance

      Maersk Oil made a profit for 2010 of USD 1.7 billion compared to a profit of USD 1.2 billion in 2009. The main reason for the improved result was a 29% increase in the average oil price. The oil production declined, but “we are making significant investments to replace our oil reserves,” says Nils […]

  • Siemens Converter Stations for Channel Tunnel Power Link

    24 February 2017
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Siemens has been awarded a contract worth approximately EUR 315 million from ElecLink, a subsidiary of Groupe Eurotunnel, to supply a link between the French and British power grids. The ‘ElecLink’ high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link will enhance power supply in both countries. Siemens will supply the two HVDC converter stations at both sides of the DC power […]