Colombo Dockyard has ordered an integrated ABB power and propulsion package for Orange Marine’s cable-laying and repair vessel that will support offshore wind farms. The vessel will be delivered by Sri Lanka’s shipbuilder in 2023, joining an Orange Marine France fleet which now accounts for 15 per c
The UK’s hydraulic subsea tools specialist Webtool has launched a new heavy-duty cutter, said to be designed to cut cable, umbilicals and risers in severe working conditions. The Webtool HCV220 can be deployed subsea mounted on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and as a deck-mounted cutter for plann
Van Oord’s underwater robot Deep Dig-It has returned to the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm to connect the HKZ Beta offshore platform to the mainland. TenneT is developing the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore grid for the connection of the 1.5 GW wind farm. Four offshore cables will be buried in the North
The Council of the European Union has approved the allocation of a €100 million grant for the EuroAsia Interconnector electricity interconnector. The announcement comes as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Cyprus to end the energy isolation as it is the last non-interconnected EU member s
Pre-lay trenching work along a number of inter-array cable routes within the Neart Na Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm site are due to begin around 7 August, ahead of the installation of cables at a later date. The inter-array cable routes will be trenched by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which will be d
Ørsted has awarded Prysmian with a contract worth more than EUR 60 million for the design, supply, termination and testing of inter-array submarine cable systems for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. Prysmian will supply more than 150 kilometres of 66 kV XLPE–ins
Italian cabling company Prysmian Group has set up its organisation for the development of the three German power transmission HDVC cable projects SuedOstLink, SuedLink and A-Nord.
Metocean studies for the Erebus and Valorous projects, the first floating wind farms to be built in Welsh waters, are now underway, the developer Blue Gem Wind reported on 27 July. The studies, which will support the design of the two floating wind projects, are being performed by ABPmer, which will
Van Oord has signed a contract with Iberdrola for the installation of monopile foundations and the supply, transportation and installation of inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The offshore construction specialist will deploy its heavy lift installation vessel Sva
SSEN Transmission has appointed Nexans to provide consultancy services to support a business continuity strategy for the high voltage subsea transmission link between Kintyre and Hunterston. The consultancy services will identify the optimum monitoring, repair and restoration regime to keep the link
Prysmian Group has secured a contract to provide deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and specialized offshore and logistic services to Petrobras.
Italian cabling giant Prysmian has set up a target to achieve net-zero for its global operations between 2035 and 2040, as well as for its value chain emissions by 2050. Prysmian announced the commitments as part of its new Climate Ambition and Social Ambition frameworks. In terms of Climate Ambitio
Saipem’s pipelay vessel Castorone has laid more than 100 kilometers of the offshore pipeline for the Baltic Pipe project in the Baltic Sea. The 275-kilometer long Baltic Pipe will create a new corridor supplying gas from Norway to the markets in Poland, Denmark and also neighboring countries. Castor
NKT has begun the installation of the 10-kilometer onshore cable for the 600 MW Shetland HVDC project in Scotland. The onshore cable will run from the converter station at Kergord in Shetland and the Switching Station at Noss Head in Caithness to the subsea cable landfall points. NKT has also starte
