Ørsted and Jan De Nul Group have signed the offshore export cable installation contract for the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. This is the first offshore HVDC installation contract awarded by Ørsted in the UK, the company said. Belgium-headquartered Jan De Nul Group will be responsib
The Correll Group has secured a contract with Hellenic Cables for the termination and testing of inter-array cables on the wind turbine generators and offshore substation for the 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The Revolution Wind offshore wind farm is being developed by a joint
Ulstein Verft and Nexans have cut the first steel for Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV), four months after signing the shipbuilding contract. On January 19, on the day four months after signing the shipbuilding contract, Nexans Marine Operations and Ulstein Verft celebrated the start of the cons
Following the delivery of equipment for Nexans Aurora, Ulstein Verft has awarded Red Rock with another contract to provide an upgraded crane package for Nexans’ new cable-lay vessel (CLV). The new CLV will have a deck capacity of 10.000t of cable, an under-deck capacity of 3.500t cable, and will be
After introducing its jet trenching system to the U.S. market, DeepOcean has completed the burial of a fuel support pipeline in the US Gulf of Mexico for Genesis Energy. DeepOcean’s trenching system, UT-1, was utilized for the burial of a portion of the High Island A5 fuel support pipeline. Accordi
London-headquartered engineering consultancy Longitude Engineering, part of ABL Group, has won a contract to deliver design and engineering services for the subsea development at a gas field located offshore Egypt. Longitude Engineering will provide detailed design and engineering services for the s
Japan-headquartered Sumitomo Electric Industries has received approval for its plans to establish a power cable factory in Scotland. The Highland Council’s north planning applications committee approved the planning permission for the new high-voltage cable factory near Inverness last week. The deve
The second Malta to Italy interconnector has reached a major milestone with the approval of the development permit by the Maltese Planning Authority. The IC2 interconnector will consist of a new ~118-kilometer-long 225 MW HVAC electrical cable interconnection through a submarine cable operating at 2
Greece’s Hellenic Cables has signed a contract to supply inter-array cables for the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms in Poland. Hellenic Cables was appointed by Seaway7 as the key subcontractor for the design, manufacturing, testing, and supply of approximately 205km 66 kV submarine inte
Enabling work has started in Peterhead for the proposed converter station for the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) subsea electricity superhighway between Scotland and England. The joint venture project between SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission will see around 440 kilometers of
Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna has launched a project in cooperation with U.S. startup Terradepth focused on testing innovative approaches to surveying the seabed for planning environmentally friendly submarine electrical connections. As part of Project Odisseo, the first test was
Minesto has completed the Dragon 12 offshore infrastructure in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands, marking readiness for power production with the achieved connection of the export cable to the foundation. According to Minesto, completion of infrastructure subsea included re-locating the pre-installed jun
Kraken Robotics has completed a cable burial survey on behalf of Asso.subsea along the 16-kilometer export cable that runs from the Gode Wind 3 offshore substation to the Dolwin Kappa platform. The operation was conducted from the MSV Astrea, employing the advanced Sub-Bottom Imager™ (SBI). Kraken R
Elmed, set to become the first direct current (DC) connection between Europe and North Africa, has secured €45 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The €921 million project concerns the implementation of an HVDC link interconnecting Tunisia and Italy across the Strait of Sicil
