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wiredInUSA - August 2013 43 ASIA / AFRICA NEWS
LS Cable & System has won a $12 million
contract tosupply230kVextrahighvoltage
underground cables and connectors
to SMECO (Southern Maryland Electric
Cooperative). The cables and connectors
will be used in a new power transmission
and distribution network.
The project is to establish an extra high
voltage cable network across 1.5km
of the riverbed of the Patuxent River.
Underground EHV cables are generally
connected in 500m units to prevent
productivity and management-related
problems, but the Maryland project
requires the capacity to produce 1.5km
of 230kV level cables without connectors.
“This contract holds great significance in
that LS Cable & System won it through
competition with leading cable makers
from Japan and Europe based on
our expertise for successful project
implementation and the excellence of
our extra high voltage cable products,”
said overseas energy sales and promotion
division director Heonsang Lee. “LS Cable
& System will be engaged in active
marketing, targeting electricity suppliers
and EPC companies in each state of the
USA.”
Korean cables cross the
river
Saudi Arabian power contractor, Saudi
National Contracting Co (NCC) has won a
contract worth around $98 million to build
the first major power transmission line in
Musandam Governorate.
The project is key to major infrastructure
schemes being implemented by the
government in this strategically important
Omani enclave.
The transmission line will be built in tandem
withthegovernorate’sproposedfirstnatural
gas based power plant. Electricity from the
power plant, expected togeneratearound
120MW, will be supplied to towns and
villages in Dibba and Khasab, supplanting
diesel-based electrical generation for the
first time in the governorate.
According to officials, the 132kV overhead
transmission line will start at Tibat in Wilayat
Bukha, where the proposed power plant
will be located. It will travel 18km to Khasab
and extend a further 80km to Dibba.
As part of theproject, 132kVgrid stations will
bebuiltat Tibat, KhasabandDibba.Officials
explain that the project’s substantial cost is
attributable to the extremely rugged terrain
through which the transmission line will run.
First major power line in
Musandam