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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2015
Industrynews
JDR Cables has been awarded a
contract by Nigerian oil and gas
service firm Royal Niger Emerging
Technologies.
JDR will supply the components to
house hydraulic controls, chemical
hoses, low voltage signal cables and
chemical supply lines, and deliver them
to the Abo field in early 2015.
The umbilical will connect an existing
subsea distribution unit to a new well
through the use of two umbilical
termination units.
JDR will manufacture the umbilical on a
9.2m installation reel at its deep water,
quayside facility in Hartlepool, UK.
The project will provide a training
ground for Nigerian nationals in the
integration, testing, installation and
commissioning of umbilicals. Nigerian
trainees will travel to Hartlepool for the
project.
A statement from Royal Niger said:
“We see this contract as the first step
in a bold move to domicile umbilical
technology and services in Nigeria
through the effective collaboration with
JDR to deliver the umbilical product
and technology transfer to the Nigerian
market.”
Abo is Nigeria’s first deep water oil
field located in the south eastern part
of Oil Mining Lease 125, in water
depths up to 780m.
JDR Cables – UK
Website:
Umbilicals in deep water for JDR Cables
Filipino grid operating company NGCP (National Grid Corporation of the
Philippines) has contracted Prysmian group for the design, supply, installation,
and commissioning of a submarine power cable link between the Negros and
Panay islands.
The connection project, known as CNP-1 (Cebu-Negros-Panay phase 1), is the
first stage of a larger development plan by NGCP, aimed at connecting the Cebu,
Negros and Panay islands to each other and at strengthening the country’s
power transmission network.
The submarine cable will back-up an existing 138kV oil-filled cable circuit,
currently the only connection among the islands.
The 22km CNP-1 cable connection comprises three HVAC 230kV single core
cables with XLPE insulation and single wire armouring.
Prysmian will also supply and install underground cables for the land portions of
the link and will erect the two cable terminal stations.
Cables will be produced at Prysmian’s Arco Felice facility, with delivery and
commissioning scheduled for the first half of 2016.
The group has supplied submarine cable links throughout the Asia Pacific region,
including the Penang Island in Malaysia, the Java-Bali link in Indonesia, the Cheju
Island in Korea, the Ha Tien-Phu Quoc in Vietnam and the Basslink
interconnector in Australia.
The CNP-1 project is the group’s first turnkey in the Philippines.
Prysmian Group – Italy
Website:
Making the link Extrusion tooling
Guill Tool, a West Warwick, USA,
designer and builder of extrusion
tooling, offers an assortment of
literature for machine builders and
extruders at its website at www.
guilltool.com
Individual brochures are offered,
depicting the wide array of tooling
possibilities from straight inline
heads, rotary heads and
crosshead dies, available to suit
any extrusion machine.
Guill Tool and Engineering Co
Inc – USA
Website:
❍ Guill extrusion tooling is available
for all popular materials and
applications
❍ The shipment from JDR is loaded onto ships ready for delivery