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Corporate
September 2012
Berkeley County, Charleston, South
Carolina is the chosen site for Nexans’
first high voltage power cable
manufacturing plant in North America.
When the first phase of the plant
begins operations in 2014, it will focus
on the manufacture of underground
power cables up to extra high voltage
(EHV) levels of 500kV.
“The establishment of our first
high voltage cable manufacturing
plant in North America is a key
strategic development for Nexans,”
said Fréderic Michelland, Nexans
senior corporate executive vice
president responsible for the global
high voltage and submarine cables
business.
This new plant will reinforce Nexans’
current product range in North
America, adding to the existing
medium voltage, low voltage,
overhead transmission, industrial,
building wire, electrical wire and LAN
portfolios.
Statoil has
contracted Nexans to
engineer and supply
a 16.5km subsea
power umbilical
to connect the
Gullfaks C platform
(located 160km west
of Sognefjorden,
Norway) to its
subsea compression
and processing
equipment.
Nexans was an
early developer of
umbilical technology
and its power
umbilicals integrate
the functions of power cables and umbilicals in a single cable, enabling a high-voltage
(HV) supply to be provided for deepwater projects.
The power umbilical includes a number of steel tubes as well as fibre-optic elements,
signal cables for control and monitoring, as well as insulated power cores, all being
supplied from Nexans’ factories.
By eliminating the need to transport and install separate power and control umbilicals,
the power umbilical significantly reduces transportation and installation costs.
Nexans – France Website:
Nexans’ subsea saver
▲ ▲ Nexans will supply a subsea power cable to the Gullfaks C platform in Norway
New plant is
American first