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WIRE & CABLE NEWS – Issue N° 39 • Autumn 2008 • 1
WIRE & CABLE NEWS ISSUE N° 39
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL WIRE & MACHINERY ASSOCIATION
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Nexans has been awarded a contract
worth an estimated 24 million Euro to
supply the submarine export cables for
the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind
Farm project, located approximately 20km
offshore from Sheringham, on England’s
north Norfolk coast.
The full execution of the cable contract,
awarded by StatoilHydro, is subject to
offshore development consent from the
UK government and the project’s final
investment decision, expected during the
2nd half of 2008.
The contract includes engineering,
procurement and construction of two 22
km145kVXLPE (cross-linkedpolyethylene)
submarine export cables, and a spare cable
with associated equipment.
An optical fibre cable manufactured
at Nexans site in Rognan will also be
included.
The power cables will be manufactured
at Nexans’ factory in Halden, Norway for
delivery in mid April 2010. The proposed
wind farm will cover an area of 35 km2 in
water averaging 20m water depth.
It is planned that 88 wind turbine
generators, with a unit rating of 3.6 MW,
will be connected via a network of infield
cables to two offshore substations.
The total installed generation capacity
will be 315 MW and, in an average year,
approximately 1.1 TWh of power is
expected to be available for export to
the regional distribution network at Salle
substation.
Completion and start-up of the wind farm
is planned for 3rd quarter 2011.
Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm
will be developed by Scira Offshore
Energy Ltd, established specifically for
this development and owned 50% by
NorwegiancompanyStatoilHydroand50%
by the Dutch company Evelope Project, a
subsidiary in the Econcern BV group.
Nexans – France
Fax: +33 15669 8484
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Sheringham Shoal Offshore wind farm project secures its submarine cables
An artist’s impression of the completed Sheringham Shoal Offshore wind farm, off the Norfolk coast ▲ ▲
The latest 8-pad taping head, deve;loped by Queins & Co ▲ ▲
Queins’ new eight-pad head has it taped
Queins & Co has recently designed a new
high-speed eight-pad taping head, mainly
used for flat conductors and CTC-strands.
The range includes modern concentric
and tangential taping heads for paper,
plastics and MICA-tape.
Machines are also available for armouring
with galvanized steel wires or steel tapes.
Extrusion/sheathing lines are being built
for all types of cables and equipped with
state-of-the-art electrical controls and
measuring instruments.
Queins & Co GmbH– Germany
Fax: +49 2472 3014
Email:
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