Subsea Cable

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SubCom and the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6 consortium (SEA-ME-WE 6) announces that a contract is in force and implementation has commenced for the supply and installation of a new 19,200 km undersea cable system connecting South East Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe at 12 locations from Singapore to France.

Rotech Subsea has completed an important HDD exit de-burial and post-lay burial of a key subsea cable off the French Atlantic Coast. Contracted by a leading submarine cable player, the sector-leader in Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE) and suspended jet trenching mobilized its specialized trenching and sand wave clearance TRS2 tool in late Q3 2021.

Coda Octopus has announced the automation of its solution for real time tracking and monitoring of cable laying operations including the cable touch down point.

Prysmian Group is moving ahead with its project for a new submarine power cable plant in the United States.

Cinia Ltd from Finland and ARTERIA Networks Corporation from Japan announced a joint effort to build a fiber optic cable system linking Europe and Asia through the Arctic region. ARTERIA is joining the earlier announced team of Cinia and Far North Digital as the leading Japanese partner to develop and build the Far North Fiber project.

Global controls technology company Proserv Controls has secured a contract from DEME Offshore, subsidiary of the DEME Group, a leader in solutions for the offshore energy market, environmental and infra marine works, for the provision of the inter-array cable monitoring system, or CMS, for the first two phases, A and B, of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which when complete will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announces that they have finalized financing of €135 million intended to support the Group’s 2021-2024 R&D plans in Europe.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has entered into a Limited Notice to Proceed (LNTP) for the supply of power cables in the context of a landmark HVDC submarine cable project in the Middle East, worth around €220 million.

Active again in subsea power cable IRM, leading excavation and trenching operator, Rotech Subsea, has delivered a critical de-burial, cut and recovery and re-burial project in UK waters. In late Q3 Rotech Subsea’s TRS1 tool was mobilized from Aberdeen to the site of a vital subsea power cable infrastructure project.

Nexans has received the first order under the frame agreement to manufacture approximately 110km of high voltage subsea cables to South Fork Wind, a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource.

HMN Tech has announced that it has realized the marine deployment of the Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) submarine cable system, with landfalls in both Senegal and Cape Verde.