Viking Link: UXO Client Representative Job Up For Grabs

Energinet and National Grid are looking for a contractor to provide client representative services in relation to UXO risk mitigation activities on the Viking Link subsea power interconnector between Denmark and UK.

The UXO risk mitigation activities include UXO survey, inspection of possibly buried targets, ROV and subsea excavation, and possibly removal of verified UXO items.

According to the tender, the activities are scheduled to last from March 2018 until June 2019.

The deadline for the submission of tenders is November 21, 2017.

Viking Link is a proposed 1400 MW high voltage direct current (HVDC) electricity link that will involve the construction of a converter station in each country and the installation of submarine and underground cables between each converter station.

Viking Link, developed jointly between Energinet and National Grid, will be approximately 760 km long with the offshore part of approximately 630km of submarine high voltage Director Current (DC) cables.