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Global Marine Systems has placed an order
for Nexans’ fiber optic cable to fulfill three
major telecommunications projects. The
contract covers the supply of approximately
1,050km of Nexans URC-1 fiber optic cable.
The URC-1 cables are an unrepeatered
design, capableof connecting land stations
up to 500km apart without the need for
amplification by subsea repeaters.
Global Marine will deploy two 250km
fiber optic cables to connect the Ny
Aalesund observation station on the
Arctic island of Svalbard to Longyearbyen,
the administrative capital. Since the
satellite station at Longyearbyen is
already connected to mainland Norway
this extension, headed by UNINETT, an
organization serving communication
solution for universities, research institutes
and high schools in Norway, will provide Ny
Aalesund with high-speed access to the
international network.
A
second
project
will
provide
communications for oil platforms in the
North Sea. The third project is part of the
ongoing expansion of broadband services
to isolated communities in Scotland, funded
by a partnership of Scottish government,
Highlandsand Islands Enterprise, Broadband
Delivery UK and BT.
More fiber
for Europe
DONG Energy is increasing its offshore
wind power capacity in Germany, and
has signed a contract with Nexans for
the delivery and installation of 140km of
34kV cables. The inter-array cables will link
individual turbines at the 582MW capacity
Gode Wind 1 and 2 wind farms and
connect them to an offshore transformer
platform, off the Lower Saxony coast.
The new agreement is part of a larger
contract between DONG energy and
Nexans for the supply of a total 900km of
medium voltage cable for internal farm
cabling.
Trine Borum Bojsen, MD of the German
wind sector at DONG Energy, said: “The
order for Nexans shows that the German
supplier industry already occupies a
key position in the international offshore
business, as the outline contract with
Nexans not only includes the supply of our
German projects Borkum Riffgrund 1 and
Gode Wind, but also the supply of our UK
wind farms.”
Offshore boost for
German power