Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has held the keel laying ceremony for what is said to be a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that will serve the Japanese offshore wind market. VARD is building the vessel for Toyo Construction, a Japanese general constructi
JDR Cable Systems, part of TFK Group, has set up its new shop in Brazil as part of its strategic expansion in pursuit of further growth opportunities in light of the South American country’s ambition to triple clean energy capacity by 2030, which puts the rise in offshore wind projects in the spotli
NKT, alongside other players hired for work on an underwater high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable project between the U.S. and Canada, is continuing to make inroads in putting all the subsea marine infrastructure in place.
The 600 MW Gemini wind farm offshore the Netherlands is once again fully operational after experiencing a failure in one of the export cables between the wind farm and the shore. A group of cable and energy specialists, including a repair team from NKT, helped Gemini with a fast repair during the su
NKT has made inroads in the construction of a new cable extrusion tower for a power cable factory in Karlskrona, Sweden, which is expected to be the world’s largest high-voltage offshore power cable factory after completion.
Saipem has won another such deal for work at an oil and gas field off the coast of Saudi Arabia, which the country’s energy giant Aramco operates.
Four transmission system operators (TSOs) have pooled resources to create a joint venture (JV) company that will bring a subsea cable link between Azerbaijan, Romania, Georgia, and Hungary to life for a price tag of €3.5 billion, sending renewable electricity from the South Caucasus region straight
UK-headquartered CRP Subsea has secured a contract from Norway-based ocean services provider DeepOcean to supply cable protection systems for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in the German part of the North Sea. Under this contract, CRP Subsea will supply 96 NjordGuard cable protection s
Saipem has won a multibillion-dollar deal for an offshore project designed to help maintain natural gas production from the biggest field off the northern coast of Qatar.
Nexans and Ulstein have held the grand block ceremony for the new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra, bringing the vessel closer to realization. The ceremony was celebrated on September 10 at CRIST, Poland, with the remaining processes such as engineering, outfitting, system integration, equip
Following the capacity reservation agreement signed in November 2023, French subsea power cables manufacturer Nexans has officially been awarded a contract by SSEN Transmission to connect the Orkney Islands and the UK mainland. The Orkney Transmission Link will exchange up to 220 MW of renewable ene
DEME Group has laid the first export cable for Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, while also reaching a milestone by installing the 70th monopile foundation at the site off Virginia Beach in the U.S. As previously reported, Dominion Energy selected the consortium
Equinor has shifted its carbon footprint reduction efforts into higher gear with the partial electrification of two offshore platforms at a giant North Sea field off the coast of Norway.
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) is getting ready for its first project with the pick up of inter-array cables destined for a UK offshore wind farm. Calypso, Van Oord’s second CLV which will mostly be used for installing inter-array and export cables for offshore wind projec
