Nemo Link, the first electricity interconnector between the United Kingdom and Belgium, has performed very well during its first two years in operation, Belgian TSO Elia said. The Nemo Link cable – which connects Bruges, Belgium to Richborough, UK – is the result of a joint venture between National
Seabed survey has started in the Baltic Sea as part of the construction of Harmony Link, a new subsea power connection between Poland and Lithuania. The project is being implemented by PSE and Litgrid, electricity transmission system operators in Poland and Lithuania. Harmony Link is one of the larg
Prysmian has selected Tekmar Energy’s Generation 10 cable protection system (CPS) to protect export cables on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. The award follows the array cable scope in 2020, meaning that Tekmar’s CPS will guard the entire subsea cable system for the first commercial-scale wind
Ofgem and its French counterpart the Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (CRE) have published a decision to discontinue public consultation for the AQUIND interconnector. The AQUIND Interconnector is a proposed 2GW subsea and underground high voltage direct current power transmission project betwe
Tekmar Energy has secured a contract to provide its Generation 10 TekTube cable protection system (CPS) for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the contract secured with Prysmian, Tekmar’s CPS will protect the wind farm’s subsea export cables. The systems will be delivered
Subsea services player DeepOcean has completed the restructuring and wind down of its UK cable lay and trenching business. The restructuring process, which started in November last year, involved DeepOcean 1 UK, DeepOcean Subsea Cables and Enshore Subsea. Deepocean said that through the completion o
Prysmian is taking a step forward on its path to improve the sustainability of its operations, by making its Finland submarine cable plant, the company’s excellence centre also for green energy consumption. The Pikkala plant is strategic for Prysmian because it is a centre of excellence for producti
MAATS Tech has secured a contract with VARD to deliver cable lay equipment for Van Oord’s new cable laying vessel (CLV). “I am immensely proud of the team effort that has gone into winning this contract and continues our track record in providing this type of equipment in the cable industry, already
Interconnexion France-Angleterre 2 (IFA2), electricity interconnector linking the UK and France, is now able to flow low carbon electricity between the two countries at full capacity. IFA2 is 240 kilometres long subsea power cable, which stretches along the sea floor between Fareham, Hampshire in th
Oceanteam has extended storage contract for over 100 kilometres of subsea cable with one of Europe’s biggest cable manufacturers. The 6-months extension follows a three years of storage of client’s subsea cables in Oceanteam’s 5300Te carousel at its cable storage facility in Velsen, the Netherlands.
Oslo-listed shipowner Solstad Offshore has secured four contract awards for three of its subsea construction vessels (SCVs). Normand Energy will support a project for a client in the Pacific Ocean with an estimated duration of 5 months, including mobilisation and de-mobilisation. Solstad said, the c
Oslo-listed Havila Shipping has entered into a charter contract with Nexans Norway for the subsea vessel Havila Phoenix. The contract is for a firm period of 90 days with optional periods of 90 days. According to Havila, the contract should commence during April 2021. Havila Phoenix has since 2013 s
UK-based Tekmar Energy has secured a new subsea cables protection contract on a ‘major’ operational offshore wind farm project. The contract also includes work for Tekmar Energy’s sister companies Subsea Innovation and AgileTek Engineering. The deal, which follows Pipeshield’s largest-ever contract
Marine surveyor MMT has recently commenced the geophysical survey operations along the Seagreen offshore wind farm export cable route. The export cable route is approximately 100 kilometres in length and will run from the proposed Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm to a landfall location at the former C
