EoW September 2012

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Nexans’ subsea saver

Berkeley County, Charleston, South Carolina is the chosen site for Nexans’ first high voltage power cable manufacturing plant in North America. When the first phase of the plant begins operations in 2014, it will focus on the manufacture of underground power cables up to extra high voltage (EHV) levels of 500kV. “The establishment of our first high voltage cable manufacturing plant in North America is a key strategic development for Nexans,” said Fréderic Michelland, Nexans senior corporate executive vice president responsible for the global high voltage and submarine cables business. This new plant will reinforce Nexans’ current product range in North America, adding to the existing medium voltage, low voltage, overhead transmission, industrial, building wire, electrical wire and LAN portfolios. New plant is American first

Statoil has contracted Nexans to engineer and supply a 16.5km subsea power umbilical to connect the Gullfaks C platform (located 160km west of Sognefjorden, Norway) to its subsea compression and processing equipment.

Nexans an early developer of umbilical technology and its power umbilicals integrate the functions of power cables and umbilicals in a single cable, enabling a high-voltage (HV) supply to be provided for deepwater projects. The power umbilical includes a number of steel tubes as well as fibre-optic elements, signal cables for control and monitoring, as well as insulated power cores, all being supplied from Nexans’ factories. By eliminating the need to transport and install separate power and control umbilicals, the power umbilical significantly reduces transportation and installation costs. Nexans – France Website : www.nexans.com ▲ ▲ Nexans will supply a subsea power cable to the Gullfaks C platform in Norway was

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