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Oceanteam Solutions has been awarded
a long-term contract to supply an offshore
transmission owner (OFTO) with port
facilities, loadouts and storage of cables
at Oceanteam’s own cable storage
facility in Velsen Noord, Netherlands.
Oceanteam’s cable handling crew will
transfer the cable to a 120-tonne liftable
cable basket, designed and engineered
by Oceanteam Solutions, where it can be
stored for up to 20 years.
The Oceanteam facility benefits from
skilled cable handling crew and engineers
with specialist cable transfer, storage and
installation equipment readily available.
Cablestorageunits (statictanks, turntables,
cable baskets and reels) can be placed
at any required position and in any size.
“We are very pleased with this contract
and to have the opportunity to welcome
another client to our storage facility. With
our support on this long-term project it
again shows the demand of a cable
storage hub, with direct access to the
North Sea, and the fully integrated range
of services Oceanteam Solutions offers,”
said Lex van Doorn, managing director of
Oceanteam Solutions.
Storage secured
New connection between SIPA and Dura Vermeer
BP Exploration (Delta) Ltd has ordered
approximately 100km of static umbilicals
and associated accessories from Nexans
for the next stage of the West Nile Delta
project. The umbilicals will help BP, and
its partner Deutsche Erdoel AG (DEA),
develop the Giza, Fayoum and Raven gas
condensate fields and other resources
in the BP and DEA concessions located
between 65km and 85km from the coast
of Alexandria.
The electrical cables will bemanufactured
at Nexans’ plants in Rognan and
the umbilicals will be developed,
manufactured and tested at Nexans’
Halden, Norway plant. Delivery is
scheduled for 2018.
BP and Nexans are working together on
phase 1 of the West Nile Delta project.
Delta development