788 results found for 'undersea cables'

788 results found for 'undersea cables'
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  • Vesper Marine Solution for Long Island Sound Cable Protection

    2 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Vesper Marine has provided its virtual automatic identification system (AIS) to New York Power Authority (NYPA) to protect submerged power cables in Long Island Sound. The WatchMate Asset Protection System is the first U.S. installation of a system combining virtual AIS technology to mark subsea cables in conjunction with software for monitoring vessel traffic patterns […]

  • XSite Builds PNG Landing Station for Coral Sea Cable System

    22 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    XSite Modular has been awarded a contract by PNG DataCo to design and build a modular cable landing station (MCLS) in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. To be completed in Q3 2019, the landing station will be part of the Coral Sea Cable System (CSCS), a 4,700 km subsea network connecting Sydney, Australia to Port […]

  • Southeast Asia-Japan Cable System Operational

    28 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The SJC Parties announced that the Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) system is now operational. The system, supplied by TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. Company, and NEC Corporation, provides connectivity to key destinations to meet the growing bandwidth requirement in the region and allow for cost-effective and resilient connectivity to other submarine cable systems. Operated […]

  • WASACE Seeks Cable System Supplier for Atlantic Basin Project

    9 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    WASACE Cable Company announced that it has begun the procurement process to select a cable system supplier for the construction of its undersea fiber optic cable system, which will create new and unique communication routes to support the communities around the Atlantic Basin. WASACE will develop, operate and build a new network connecting Africa to […]

  • Sweden Tackles Offshore Wind Grid Connection Costs

    21 March 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Storage

    The Swedish Energy Agency has, on behalf of the government, examined two different models to remove the grid connection costs for offshore wind power.

  • BioWAVE demo unit built and tested onshore (10 photos)

    29 June 2015

    Australian wave and tidal energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), has completed the construction and onshore testing of a 250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit. The structure is scheduled for deployment at Port Fairy in the state of Victoria in November. The data collected from the $21 million project, combined with the experience gained, is expected to help drive down […]

  • Sierra Club: “Block Island Wind Farm Is Our Apollo 11 Moment” (Gallery)

    28 April 2015

    Yesterday, Deepwater Wind launched the construction phase of its offshore wind project at Block Island, Rhode Island. Sierra Club said that this was a watershed moment for American clean energy development.  “The importance of this day cannot be overstated. The Block Island Wind Farm is our Apollo 11 moment,” said Emily Norton, Director of the Massachusetts Chapter […]

  • Study: North Sea Rocks as Future Renewable Energy Stores

    22 January 2019
    Research & Development

    Rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production, new research by the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde suggests. An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using electricity from renewable technologies. The pressurised air could […]

  • China: PCCW Global Upgrades Submarine Cable with Ciena’s WaveLogic

    11 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    PCCW Global, an operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications provider, and network specialist Ciena® Corporation announced a capacity upgrade to the carrier’s subsea network with Ciena’s industry-leading WaveLogic™ coherent optical 100G networking solutions. This upgrade will significantly increase the capacity beyond the original design of PCCW Global’s North Asia subsea routes, which span […]

  • Apollo South System Field Test Successful

    30 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent have successfully completed a field trial on the existing Apollo South system, which connects France to the United States, achieving the transmission of 7.2 terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) of data per fiber pair, based on 100 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) technology. Made possible by Alcatel-Lucent’s advanced optical coherent technology, the field trial demonstrated a nine fold […]

  • Inter-Array Cabling Done at Nordsee Ost Offshore Wind Farm

    13 June 2014
    Storage

    A network of more than 60 kilometers of underwater cable now spreads over the construction field of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. This is almost the length of the Eurotunnel that connects the UK with Continental Europe. The inter-array cabling was completed in altogether less than four months. “We divided cable installation into two campaigns. The first […]

  • PHOTO: Prysmian Completes Operations for SE Asia’s Longest Subsea Cable System

    14 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, has completed operations for the construction and execution of the submarine power cable link to connect Phu Quoc Island to the national power grid in Vietnam. The turnkey project refers to a contract awarded in May 2012 by the Vietnamese utility EVNSPC […]

  • RWE: Nordsee Ost OWF Inter-Array Cabling Finished

    13 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A network of more than 60 kilometres of underwater cable now spreads over the construction field of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. This is almost the length of the Eurotunnel that connects the UK with Continental Europe. The inter-array cabling was completed in altogether less than four months. “We divided cable installation into two […]

  • Estlink 2 damage not considered an accident, Estonia’s minister says as navy protects sister link

    27 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Estonia’s Defense Forces launched a naval operation early today to protect the Estlink 1 interconnector between Estonia and Finland as a response to the damage that occurred on the day of Christmas on Eastlink 2. Finland’s transmission system operator (TSO) Fingrid reported to the authorities on December 25 the possible failure of Estlink 2, prompting […]

  • UK: Pharos Offshore Starts Construction of Newly Designed Remotely Operated Vehicle

    25 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

      Pharos Offshore Group has started construction of a newly designed remotely operated vehicle (ROV) specifically for the offshore wind farm cable market. The new Inter Turbine Array Trencher, the ITAT 800™, is an 800 HP (600 kW) self-propelled trenching ROV that can be more easily manoeuvred by the operators onboard its support ship than […]

  • USA: Scientists to Integrate Scientific Instruments onto Seafloor Communication Cables

    14 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A new agreement between marine scientists and a commercial telecommunications company could dramatically advance scientists’ ability to observe and study ocean processes, provide early alerts for potential disasters and study deep Earth geodynamics. Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and engineers at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) will work with […]

  • US Senators present bill to boost tidal and wave sector

    8 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Five US Senators have introduced a legislation set to increase domestic production of renewable energy from ocean’s waves, tides, and currents.

  • Pharos Offshore Group Develops ROV for Offshore Wind Farm Cable Market (UK)

    16 September 2011
    Technology

      Pharos Offshore Group has started construction of a newly designed remotely operated vehicle (ROV) specifically for the offshore wind farm cable market. The new Inter Turbine Array Trencher, the ITAT 800™, is an 800 HP (600 kW) self-propelled trenching ROV that can be more easily manoeuvred by the operators onboard its support ship than […]

  • UK: Pharos Offshore Starts ROV Construction for Offshore Wind Farm Cable Market

    25 August 2011
    Technology

      Pharos Offshore Group has started construction of a newly designed remotely operated vehicle (ROV) specifically for the offshore wind farm cable market. The new Inter Turbine Array Trencher, the ITAT 800™, is an 800 HP (600 kW) self-propelled trenching ROV that can be more easily manoeuvred by the operators onboard its support ship than […]

  • Maine Aqua Ventus Abandons Port Clyde Landfall Option

    23 January 2018
    Storage

    The consortium behind the Maine Aqua Ventus demonstration project has reportedly decided to stop investigating the Port Clyde route as one of the preferred for the transmission link to the mainland. According to the local media, Maine Aqua Ventus has given up on this route due to concerns raised by local fishermen, who would be banned from operating in the route area. 

  • Work Begin on Expansion of Belgium’s Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm

    22 April 2011

    Installation of the first foundation structures marks the start of works to extend the Thornton Bank wind farm, located off the Belgian coast. In recent weeks, the underwater area has been prepared. Now works are starting to drive the first steel piles into the sea bed. Each pile is about 40 metres long, and four […]

  • Oceaneering to get equipment that ‘dramatically’ reduces subsea geotechnical surveying time

    13 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Safety

    Oceaneering has placed an order with a UK-headquartered company for a next-generation auto-drop piston corer expected to enable time-saving for subsea geotechnical surveying. A piston corer is a long, heavy tube plunged into the seafloor to extract samples of soft sediment, which provide information for developers building offshore installations such as wind turbines, oil & […]

  • Iberdrola Connects First Turbine at WoDS

    25 February 2014

    Via its British subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables, Iberdrola is making progress on its first major offshore wind power project, the West of Duddon Sands wind farm (WoDS), in the United Kingdom. The company is carrying out this initiative in a joint venture with Danish firm Dong Energy. The first turbines at this offshore wind farm have […]

  • Germany: Grid Connection for 3rd Windreich Offshore Wind Farm on Right Track

    13 September 2012
    Storage

    The on-schedule connection with the grid for the offshore wind park ‘Deutsche Bucht’ is now a good deal closer. At the hearing with the Federal Network Agency yesterday, it became clear in intensive negotiations over several hours that both sides – the wind park builder Windreich AG and the network operator TenneT – have a […]

  • Interview: TE SubCom Aims Towards New Acheivements

    16 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    SubCom is global supplier of undersea communications technology and marine services. The company designs, manufactures, and installs fiber optic cable systems around the world. To date, SubCom deployed more than 100 cable systems and enough subsea cable to circle the Earth more than 15 times at the equator. Subsea World News has spoken to Debra Brask, […]