In the last few days, Fugro secured two contracts to perform cable burial and survey operations at two wind farm sites in the UK. Beside the recently announced contract for CT Offshore at RWE Innogy’s Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm off the North Wales coast, the company announced that it had won a s
RTE France has announced a pre-qualification procedure to establish a list of qualified suppliers for subsea cable works. RTE will establish a list of qualified suppliers for manufacture and supply of 225 kV submarine AC cable and associated accessories, including mounting accessories and laying of
Vattenfall intends to participate in the call for bids for the concession of Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm, led by the Danish Energy Agency (DEA). The company has invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) from contractors for the offshore transport of wind turbine generators (WTGs) from the port of pre
Ecofys performed a Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) study for Navitus Bay Wind Park, which identified the most cost-efficient electrical infrastructure design. This takes the development of the offshore wind farm an important step further. The proposed Navitus Bay Wind Park is a joint venture b
RWE Innogy have reviewed their site selection for part of the onshore electrical infrastructure – known as the Intermediate Electrical Compound – for Triton Knoll Offshore Wind farm. The site between Orby and Addlethorpe in the vicinity of Skegness Stadium known as the Red Zone has now been selected
HitecVision has announced the acquisition of GC Rieber Shipping ASA (GCR) shares in Reef Subsea. Through this share purchase HitecVision secures 100% of the shares in the company and enables Reef Subsea to move forward with a strategy to develop Reef along two main business areas – dredging and exca
After succesful cable installation for Northwind offshore wind project, vessel Olympic Taurus started demobilization at BOW Teminal. Olympic Taurus was also the first ship to call at BOW Terminal in 2014, when it collected the last cable reels for installation on the Northwind offshore wind farm. Th
The preparatory onshore work for the Dutch offshore wind farm Eneco Luchterduinen has started. The onshore cable installation is the first step to prepare the later grid connection, and Ecofys is currently in charge of developing and managing the electrical infrastructure. Ecofys will perform qualit
German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and DC Nordseekabel GmbH & Co. KG (NOKA), represented by the grid operator Tennet, want to speed up the planning approval for the proposed subsea cable NordLink from Norway to Schleswig-Holstein. To achieve this, they signed an implementation agreement with
ABB said its fourth-quarter 2013 results were adversely impacted mainly by charges for storm-related project delays and some operational issues in the Power Systems (PS) division. Additional restructuring-related charges were taken in response to the division’s soft order intake in 2013. The company
Vos Prodect Innovations has announced the completion of a new test on the permanent section of the cable hang-off system. With the latest test, the company’s main aim was to determine the maximum axial cable load that the permanent hang-off part can withstand. Vos Prodect has used a 3x630mm² submari
CT Offshore and Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited have signed an agreement, covering free-laying, installation and burial of 63 cables of the in total 161 inter-array cables at one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms. The cable laying and installation will be conducted by the company’s own
DONG Energy has constructed the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, which is one of the largest construction projects in Denmark. The wind farm site is approx. 20km long and approx. 5km wide and covers an area four times the size of the island of Anholt. More than 100 vessels were involved in the constructio
Long distance power cable monitoring specialist, Omnisens was selected to monitor the export cables at Sheringham Shoal windfarm. The two 132 kV cables monitored join the offshore substations to the Sheringham Shoal Salle substation, some 20 km inland, where the Omnisens DITEST interrogator is house
