Ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed trenching and survey operations at a US offshore wind project under a contract awarded by what it says is a global provider of engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI). DeepOcean’s scope of work included trenching and surveying of
Norway-headquartered subsea services provider OMS Group has signed contracts with Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein for the design and construction of two cable-laying vessels (CLVs). Designed by Ulstein Design & Solutions, the ULSTEIN SX252 vessels will be 130 metres long and 22 metres wide and will ha
National Grid Ventures (NGV) has published updated proposals for the LionLink interconnector, which will connect the future Nederwiek 3 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to the UK and Dutch grids. NGV, responsible for building and operating the UK side of LionLink, has now opened an eight-week p
Cable-laying vessel (CLV) Seaway Aimery is en route from the US to Europe for work that the vessel has scheduled on the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm in the UK. According to a Notice to Mariners from the East Anglia Three project, inter-array cable installation is set to commence around 12 Ja
Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has received approval in principle (AiP) from compatriot classification society ClassNK for the basic design of specialized vessels for subsea power cable jointing and burial. MOL is working with Sumitomo Electric Industries, Furukawa Electric, and N
NjordIC has been awarded the UXO Consultancy Services Contract for the Doordewind 1 & 2 Grid Connection System, commissioned by TenneT and forming part of TenneT’s offshore HVDC program supporting the Netherlands’ ambition to deliver 21 GW of offshore wind capacity. Under the contract, NjordIC will
ScottishPower Renewables has selected Nexans as the supplier of 66 kV accessories for the East Anglia Three offshore wind project in the UK. Under the contract, Nexans will deliver T-connectors, bushings, junction boxes and cable lugs, and pre-terminated power cables, which the company says are all
Jan De Nul has installed three HVAC subsea cables, delivered by Hellenic Cables, between TenneT’s offshore converter station DolWin kappa and Nordseecluster 1 and 2 sites in the German North Sea. The two locations make up the 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm, which itself is part of a bigg
ZTT Submarine Cable & System has commenced the production of the export cables for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland, owned by a joint venture between Ørsted and PGE. The project’s export cables will be delivered by the Chinese cable manufacturer and Hellenic Cables, a Greece-based s
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a EUR 300 million financing package for Prysmian that will support the Italian cabling giant’s research and development (R&D) activities with the ultimate goal of accelerating energy security and digitalization in Europe. The financing will support Pry
Taiwan-based Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has signed a shipbuilding contract with Norwegian shipyard Westcon for the delivery of a subsea and cable laying vessel (CLV), a move said to come due to the need for installation capacity in Taiwan, as another DFO vessel will be working in Europe until the end
Indeximate, a UK-based provider of fibre optic sensing technology for predictive maintenance of offshore wind subsea cables, has received a DNV Statement of Feasibility for its Scattersphere cable health monitoring platform, the company said on 3 December. The platform was granted the Statement of F
UK-based Enshore Subsea has secured three initial projects for offshore grid systems in Germany under a six-year framework agreement with French cable systems designer and manufacturer Nexans. Enshore Subsea is responsible for installing the Wadden Sea sections of the submarine cable system for the
A joint venture (JV) between Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT and Taiwanese cable company Walsin Lihwa has inaugurated Taiwan’s first offshore power cable factory. Operated by the JV Walsin Energy Cable System (WECS), the factory was inaugurated on Saturday, 6 December, in K
NKT has completed a turnkey repair of one of the 220 kV high-voltage AC subsea export cables connecting the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Scottish Moray Firth to the Aberdeenshire coast. In April 2025, an unplanned transmission outage occurred on one of two of Beatrice’s Transmission Capital Pa
