wiredinUSA August 2015

Refinery contract

French connection

Nexans SA has been chosen to supply low voltage cables to Iraq’s Karbala refinery project. The contract was awarded by HDGSK, a joint venture of four Korean EPCs: Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Hyundai Engineering, GS Engineering & Construction, and SK Engineering & Construction. The contract calls for 3,500km of LV cables. In-Koo Kang, CEO at Nexans Korea, said: “We are pleased to be a part of a major overseas project with HDGSK. A long-standing relationship with our customer, and our solution to optimize the total cost of ownership of the installation, were key to winning this contract.” Nexans’ low voltage cable system will be equipped with PVC hydrocarbon resistance. Thecableswill bemanufactured in Nexans’ plants in South Korea and Turkey and supplied to the refinery between January 2016 and March 2017. The Karbala refinery project, from Iraq’s state company for oil projects (SCOP) is to date the largest contract won by Korean EPCs, worth over $6 billion. The plant is expected to be completed by 2020.

Europe’s largest solar farm will be connected with Nexans’ Energyflex ® photovoltaic cables after Eiffage Energie awarded Nexans the contract to supply 90 percent of the necessary cables. Nexans will manufacture and supply approximately 5,000km of medium and low voltage photovoltaic cables and data cables to the Cestas solar farm in France. The solar farm, located near Bordeaux, will generate over 350GWh per year with a peak capacity of 300MW. Eiffage Energie operates on behalf of Clemessy, which pilots a consortium of several investors including Neoen, formed to build, operate and maintain the farm. Approximately one million solar panels will cover 250 hectares of land divided into 25 solar plants. The farm is expected to be connected to the grid in October 2015. Nexans’ Energyflex cables will provide durable, high-performance in-field connections between the PV panels and the inverters that will transform the solar energy into usable AC electricity. The cables were developed specifically to meet the demand for reliable, efficient cables in the specialized photovoltaic market.

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