China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has started the construction of the first of two Asso.subsea’s trenching support vessels (TSV), described as the most powerful TSV ever built. Asso.subsea reported on September 23 that the steel-cutting ceremony was held for the TSV Avra at the CMHI Shenzhen shi
Nexans has started the installation of the underground land cable for an electricity interconnector that will connect the Orkney Islands to the UK mainland for the first time. Orkney Link, developed by SSEN Transmission, will comprise a new substation being built at Finstown, approximately 14 kilome
Netherlands-headquartered Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) has won its first contract with Saipem for cable transportation and transpooling services in the Caspian region, valued at approximately $20 million. Under the contract secured with Saipem Contracting Netherlands BV, SCA will provide engineering, s
DeepOcean and the controlling entity of TFKable Group are planning to establish a joint venture (JV) that will provide integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services for inter-array cable projects in offshore wind, as well as a newbuild, dedicated inter-array cabl
Jan De Nul is further expanding its fleet with the order of a new trenching support vessel, which will be an exact copy of its Isambard Kingdom Brunel, announced in March. With this latest order, Jan De Nul has five vessels under construction for subsea cable installation and protection, including t
WIND, a Dutch subsea cable logistics, cable recovery, and related services company, has acquired a stake in a UK-based firm providing cable testing and termination, fault-finding and repair, among other things, for the offshore wind, power and wider energy sectors. WIND reported earlier this month t
Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has inaugurated its expanded medium-voltage (MV) power cable factory in Asnaes, Denmark, where production has been ongoing since 1965. The expansion works began in September 2024 and included a new production hall, new production and test fac
Norway’s energy company Equinor has awarded Proserv with a contract for the deployment of cable monitoring technology at the 402 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm in the UK. Proserv’s ECG Business Unit will deploy its advanced monitoring technology to provide continuous visibility of cable and terminati
XOCEAN has been tasked with performing geophysical survey operations, starting this month, for the 2,200 MW Western HVDC Link cable route between Hunterston, Scotland, and the Wirral, England. XOCEAN’s uncrewed survey vessels (USVs) X-05 and X-29 will be used for the geophysical inspection survey of
An offshore subsea construction vessel (OSCV) that Norwegian shipbuilder VARD is building for Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has been launched in Romania and will now go to Norway for final outfitting. The 121.3-meter-long vessel of VARD 3 39 design is said to be a highly versatile platform d
first cable pull-ins at Lemóniz in northern Spain, marking what it describes as an important construction milestone on a multibillion-euro interconnector, which will increase electricity exchange capacity between Spain and France from 2.8 GW to 5 GW.
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation player NKT is raising the bar for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power cable technology with a newly qualified 525 kV extruded XLPE subsea cable system for operation at 90°C, boosting transmission capability and the firm’s HVDC port
NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora, which will be able to run on both methanol and HVO/marine diesel oil, has arrived from Romania to Norway for the next phase of outfitting and commissioning. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the
