Spanish grid operator Red Electrica and its Moroccan counterpart ONEE have completed the works to seal the leak in the reserve cable of the link between Spain and Morocco. The leak incident took place in Moroccan waters 21.6 kilometres off Spain at a depth of 208 metres. The companies advised the Sp
The NordLink interconnector has transmitted the first power between Norway and Germany. According to Nexans, the system is under testing and electricity with a capacity of 70 MW was transferred between the two countries last week. NordLink is the world’s first interconnection that will enable two co
Siemens Energy, lead contractor for the construction of National Grid’s Viking Link interconnector project in Lincolnshire, has installed a zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell to provide off grid power to the project’s construction site for the first time. Off grid power is necessary as this site won’t
Offshore surveyor EGS will conduct a marine route survey for a proposed new submarine communications cable between Ireland and Iceland. In 2019, the Telecommunication Fund of Iceland and Farice ehf, the operator of two submarine cables to Iceland, signed a DTS work agreement. The deal involved selec
Subsea vehicle specialists Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has secured a new contract working in collaboration with a subsea cabling company. As part of the contract, SMD will supply the next-generation MD3-XT Plough. The plough is capable of trenching up to 3.3 metres with jetting, at depths of up to 1
Subsea protection specialist Tekmar has recently secured a number of contracts with an aggregate value of over £6 million due for delivery in 2021 financial year. During August, Tekmar Energy and Pipeshield International won multiple contracts to supply subsea asset protection and stabilisation tech
Maritime Developments MDL has carried out transpooling of a flexible jumper for TechnipFMC in Norway. The complete scope of work consisted of project engineering and onshore execution of transpooling of a 6-inch flowline from a storage reel onto the quayside using the MDL second-generation RDS. This
Vattenfall has issued a tender for installation works on two wind farms in the Danish North Sea – Vesterhav Syd and Vesterhav Nord. The tender is divided into three lots and covers the installation of the foundations, the cables, and the wind turbines. The contracts are scheduled to run from July 20
JDR Hartlepool has completed the manufacturing and load-out of inter-array cables for the Danish Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm, the company reported via social media. Vattenfall awarded JDR with the inter-array cable contract in 2019. The company is supplying 170 kilometres of 33 kV cables for th
Cable pull-in for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm’s export line has been completed at the project’s landfall site at Lincolnshire’s Horseshoe Point beach. The operation, carried out by Boskalis’ cable laying vessel Ndurance, involved installing 2.4 kilometres of cable under water and toward the c
All turbine foundations and export cables have been installed at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. According to project developer RWE, the installation of the 90 monopile foundations and two lengths of 50km export cable was completed this week. Seaway 7’s Seaway Strashnov and DEME’s Inn
JDR, owned by the TFKable Group, has signed a contract with Boskalis to provide the termination and testing of 100 array cables and two offshore substation interconnector cables for the Moray East offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland. This award secures further UK content for the project and
DEME Offshore has signed a contract with Dogger Bank Wind Farm to provide the inter-array cables for Dogger Bank A and Dogger Bank B offshore UK. Under the EPCI contract, DEME will in total supply, install and protect 650km of 66kV inter-array cables and all related accessories. Production will star
Eco Wave Power has secured the engineering coordination permit from the Municipality of Tel-Aviv Jaffa for the deployment of the grid connection works of the EWP-EDF One wave energy project in the Port of Jaffa, Israel. This permit allows Eco Wave Power to proceed with the path towards electric cabl
