Farice, a company fully owned by the Icelandic Government, currently owns, and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe, announced this week that the IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway to Iceland and onwards to Denmark and the Nordics, on existing Farice networks is now in its final phase of implementation.
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JDR Cable Systems (JDR), the global subsea cable supplier and servicer, part of the TFK Group, celebrates commencing construction for its new state-of-the-art subsea cable manufacturing facility in Cambois, near Blyth, Northumberland.
With the increasing capacity of renewable energy sources and the necessity of long-distance power interconnectors for efficient use of renewable energy between countries and regions, HVDC cable technology, which is suitable for long-distance power transmission, has been gaining significant attention in the global market.
Nexans, a global organization and key driver for the world’s transition to a more connected and sustainable future, announced the execution of a significant contract for phase one of the Empire Wind Project being developed by a 50-50 partnership between Equinor and bp.
Earlier in the summer Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE) and Suspended Jet Trenching market leader, Rotech Subsea, wrapped up a four-month cable de-burial and re-burial campaign at an offshore wind farm off France’s Atlantic coast.
N-Sea Group have successfully completed a pre-emptive repair to SSEC3. SSEC3 is one of four 132,000 volt export circuits owned and operated by the Gwynt y Môr OFTO, providing the export connection between the Gwynt y Môr Wind Farm and the onshore UK transmission system. The pre-emptive repair was the second stage of a repair to SSEC3 that saw circa 7.5km of submarine cable replaced.
Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fiber optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, announces it has been contracted by the Zemax-Planova Consortium to provide expertise related to the various oil and gas (O&G) aspects of the Petrobras Malha Óptica project in Brazil.
Submarine Networks World (SNW), the largest annual gathering of subsea communications leaders in the world will once again convene in Singapore on September 7-8, 2022. This is the first in-person edition of the event since 2019 and marks the first time that the subsea communications community has been able to gather at scale since the pandemic.