UK’s OEG Offshore has acquired compatriot Pelagian, a provider of consultancy, engineering and installation management services to the submarine cable and offshore renewable energy industries. With the acquisition, OEG stated it was better equipped to support the cable sector across different end ma
Renewable energy company Sun Cable has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with an Australian critical minerals company for the potential offtake of renewable electricity from the planned Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) project. Under the one-year non-binding LoI, Sun Cable will progress commerci
Two multi-purpose interconnector projects that were supposed to link the UK and Norway have been deemed unable to meet the eligibility criteria and have therefore been paused, according to UK energy market regulator Ofgem.
Dutch upstream oil and gas company, ONE-Dyas, has awarded N-Sea with a contract to install a subsea power cable between the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German North Sea and the new, to-be-built N05-A gas production platform. The scope of N-Sea includes the complete scope comprising survey, des
The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Supply has approved Energinet’s application for the replacement of a submarine cable that passes across Øresund connecting Denmark and Sweden. With the approval in place, Energinet can now begin the project to replace System 2 on the 400 kV cable connection
Prysmian’s cable-laying barge Ulisse has resumed cable laying operations at the first U.S. large-scale offshore wind project, located off the coast of Massachusetts. According to the project’s latest mariner update, cable laying operations of the mid-section cable for the Vineyard Wind 1 project wer
In a pressing need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the shipping sector and offshore vessel services providers are certainly the protagonists in the whole decarbonization story. However, although we are seeing an increasing number of initiatives, we still have a long way to go.
England-based CRP Subsea, part of AIS, has secured a contract to deliver cable protection services for an HVDC submarine cable project offshore United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Gulf. More than 6 kilometers of Uraduct will be used at the cable crossings and platform approaches on the HVDC system,
Prysmian and Vard have held the keel-laying ceremony for Prysmian’s new 171-meter cable-laying vessel which is set to start commercial operations by April 2025. The new vessel is identical to the Leonardo da Vinci, which was designed with input from Prysmian’s technicians and engineers. Prysmian exe
Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has been selected by the European Commission to take part in delivering the Infinite project aimed at accelerating industrial-scale floating wind. The Infinite project includes the deployment and testing of a 4.8 MW floating wind pilot system at a 100-meter w
Ørsted has awarded NKT with a supply contract for the delivery of the high-voltage DC on- and offshore export cable system for the Hornsea 3 wind farm offshore the UK. For NKT, the final order has an estimated contract value of approximately €500 million in market prices. The contract will comprise
The UK Government is considering the viability and merits of the Xlinks Morocco–UK Power Project to understand how it could contribute to the UK’s energy security, the government announced in a recent policy paper. The Morocco-UK Power Project is a multi-technology renewable energy project with appr
ZTT Submarine Cable & System has been awarded an engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPIC) contract for the subsea cable for the CGN Huizhou Port II Offshore Wind Power Project in China. Under the contract, 170-kilometre 220 kV three-core subsea cable will be supplied and inst
Italian energy giant Eni has created a new venture called Enivibes, dedicated to increasing the market value of its proprietary vibroacoustic pipeline monitoring system technology. The establishment of the new venture comes as Eni wishes to enhance the market value of its proprietary technology call
