Primo Marine has been hired by NeuConnect to assist with the Offshore Permit Application for the 1.4 GW interconnector between Germany and the United Kingdom. The scope entails work like assistance to the Marine Permit Application, Route Engineering, Burial Assessment, Seabed Mobility Studies and Ma
GC Rieber Shipping has agreed with Nexans to extend the charter of the construction support vessel (CSV) Polar King. The extension is valid for additional two months, making the charter firm until September 2020. The extended period is in direct continuation of the ongoing charter, which started in
Danish transmission system operator Energinet is seeking client representatives for the 1400 MW Viking Link interconnector project. Viking Link is a joint project of Energinet and the UK’s National Grid Viking Link Limited. The tender calls for consultants working onboard the cable-laying vessels as
Swan Hunter has delivered a full project management, design engineering, and mobilisation support package for Oceanteam. This allowed Oceanteam Solutions to execute a cable transpooling job with its cable transportation and handling barge. Swan Hunter designed a fully flexible deck layout allowing c
Jacksonville’s Network Access Point (JaxNAP) will host Seaborn endpoint for the AMX-1 subsea cable between Jacksonville, Florida and Rio de Janeiro Brazil. This system provides customers with a direct, low latency and high availability route from the southern United States to Brazil. Seaborn will of
Dutch subsea and survey specialist Fugro said it will reduce its workforce by up to 10 per cent due to challenging market situation. The company posted loss before interest and taxes of €26 million for the first quarter 2020, against loss of €19 million in Q1 2019. Fugro recently announced a program
Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) has announced the kick-off of Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) cable. The system is a high-capacity direct link connecting Dakar, Senegal and Praia, Cape Verde. The SHARE system is about 720 kilometres and has a design capacity of 16Tbit/s, using HMN’s com
A comprehensive cost reduction programme is being developed and will be announced in the second quarter.
Correll Services has secured a contract by Subsea 7 US LLC for cable pull, termination and testing works on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) demonstration project. “The award of this contract has provided an opportunity to demonstrate a concept we’ve been considering for a long time,” said
The first inter-array cables at the SeaMade offshore wind farm have been connected to the Mermaid offshore substation (OSS). Cable burial works will commence in the coming days, Otary states on social media. DEME’s cable installation vessel Living Stone started the inter-array works in mid-April. Th
Aker Solutions and Ocean Installer have completed umbilical loadout for CNOOC Liuhua project ten days ahead of schedule. Six umbilicals totaling 115 kilometers have been loaded onto the CSV Connector from Aker Solutions’ facility in Mobile, US. Aker Solutions won orders to deliver dynamic and static
All the grand blocks for Nexans’ cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora have been assembled at the CRIST hull yard in Poland. According to Nexans, work tasks such as some steelwork, outfitting and paintwork now need to be carried out before the hull can be towed to Ulstein Verft in Norway for final
ADNOC and ADPower have issued a joint tender to develop and operate the MENA region’s first HVDC subsea transmission system. The system will connect ADNOC’s offshore production facilities to ADPower’s onshore electricity grid. The project should as a result reduce the carbon footprint of ADNOC’s off
PNG Dataco has landed the Kumul Submarine Cable Network (KSCN) in Kavieng, New Ireland Province, in Papua New Guinea. The cable will provide the much-needed information highway that will connect and expose Kavieng and the New Ireland Province to the rest of the world. PNG Dataco general manager Engi
