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Fugro has secured a contract for the
installation and burial of 122 array cables
at the Rampion offshore wind farm,
located 13km off the Sussex, UK, coast. The
contract was awarded by E.ON with the
UK Green Investment Bank. Engineering
and planning will begin immediately with
installation to be carried out in two phases
in 2016 and 2017. Construction is expected
to be completed in 2018.
Fugro will lay the cables using its construction
and installation vessels
Fugro Symphony
and
Fugro Saltire
, and will use one of its
two Q1400 trenching systems to bury the
cables. The array cables will be pulled-in
and laid between the wind turbines and
the offshore substation from where the
power is transmitted onshore.
“The award of this contract has
strengthened Fugro’s successful working
relationship with E.ON and comes soon
after finishingcable-layandburial onE.ON’s
recently completed Humber Gateway
wind farm,” said Derek Cruickshank, MD of
Fugro Subsea Services Ltd.
The Rampion offshore wind farm will consist
of 116 turbines, each with a generating
capacity of 3.45MW.
Cable lay contract
Nexans will supply approximately 1,100km
of its repeatered optical cables (ROC-2) to
Huawei Marine for the Nigeria-Cameroon
submarine cable system (NCSCS). The
NCSCS, with a capacity of 12.8Tbps, will
deliver broadband to users in both countries
by the end of 2015. Optical repeaters were
integrated into the cables by Huawei Marine
at Nexans’ facility in Rognan, Norway.
The cable system will be the first to be wholly
owned by Cameroon.
“Nexans has met the needs of our project by
not only producing high quality repeatered
cable, but also providing dedicated support
in the complex process of integrating the
repeaters into the cable. The delivery of
these cables is a key milestone in the NCSCS
project,” said Kevin Zhang, project director
at Huawei Marine.
Krister Granlie, executive vice president
of hybrid underwater cables at Nexans,
added: “The NCSCS project represents a
key milestone for Nexans in entering the
repeatered cable system market, and we
look forward to continue collaborating with
Huawei Marine in the future.”
Cameroon cable