UK-based C-Kore Systems has recently signed its first contract for delivery of subsea monitoring tools for a Chinese operation. The C-Kore tools will deliver subsea testing on the main umbilical before tying back into the existing structures. Operators and installation contractors use C-Kore’s subse
Oslo-listed Havila Shipping has entered into a charter contract with Nexans Norway for the subsea vessel Havila Phoenix. The contract is for a firm period of 90 days with optional periods of 90 days. According to Havila, the contract should commence during April 2021. Havila Phoenix has since 2013 s
JDR has won a contract with UMD Energy to manufacture and supply a 2.7 kilometres long subsea production umbilical for the Ledang Redevelopment Segment 2 project, offshore Malaysia. The umbilical will provide connection from the unmanned remote platform to the subsea production control system. JDR w
Torgy LNG AS has awarded Trelleborg with a contract to provide 190 integrated cable protection systems for Jiangsu Qidong offshore wind farm project located off Jiangsu, China. Trelleborg’s NjordGuard cable protection system will protect the inter-array grid power cables on the project from over-ben
UK-based Tekmar Energy has secured a new subsea cables protection contract on a ‘major’ operational offshore wind farm project. The contract also includes work for Tekmar Energy’s sister companies Subsea Innovation and AgileTek Engineering. The deal, which follows Pipeshield’s largest-ever contract
CWind Taiwan has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with E&Y Electronics, a Taiwanese power cable service provider specialised in cable testing and termination, to develop its cable maintenance services in the Taiwanese offshore wind market. The services under the cooperation agreement includ
Marine surveyor MMT has recently commenced the geophysical survey operations along the Seagreen offshore wind farm export cable route. The export cable route is approximately 100 kilometres in length and will run from the proposed Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm to a landfall location at the former C
CORRECTION NOTE: The article has been updated to say that the tenders to be launched in March will be for offshore grid connections in the Netherlands. Tenders for 2 GW offshore grids in Germany will follow later. TenneT will launch tenders for at least two new offshore grid connections in the Nethe
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a tender for subsea works on the cable protection systems (CPS) and bolt exchanges at diffusor plates at the Trianel Windpark Borkum project in Germany. The selected company will be in charge of installing 20 preventive CPS retrofits, four corrective CPS retro
Japanese cabling specialist Sumitomo Electric recently won a contract for the Stikine Crossing submarine cable replacement project. Specifically, the project takes place in the Stikine Crossing (approximately 5 kilometres) between Vank and Woronkofski Islands, near Wrangell, Alaska. The purpose of t
Greece and Italy will be looking to build a new subsea power interconnector with up to 1GW capacity, Greek grid operator IPTO said in its 2022-2031 preliminary development plan. IPTO and its Italian equivalent Terna recently teamed up to prepare studies to strengthen the interconnection of the two e
UK-based Dynamic Load Monitoring (DLM) has manufactured two bespoke monitoring systems that have been installed by dive teams on subsea bend stiffeners at an offshore wind farm. The equipment has been commissioned, with the first round of data due to be collected in March 2021. DLM delivered the bes
JDR is loading out its third batch of cables set for Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The TFKable Group company is supplying 170 kilometres of 33 kV cables for the 72-turbine offshore wind farm. As part of this latest load-out JDR is spooling to vessel 57.5 kilometres of inter-arr
The COBRAcable interconnector between Dutch and Danish electricity networks is back in operation, Tennet reported on Friday. The 700 MW submarine interconnector was out of operation due to a failure in the cable since the end of September. The repair operation has been successful, enabling the impor
