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protection systems. The company will also be responsible for the installation and trenching of a coupling cable between the Nobelwind and Belwind I offshore substations. Ottar Maeland, DeepOcean’s executive vice president, greater North Sea, said: “ This award of array cables installation for Nobelwind is the first commitment for DeepOcean’s new chartered cable lay vessel, currently being constructed by Damen Yard for delivery early 2016.” DeepOcean will use its own fleet of vessels, including Deep Helder and Volantis , to carry out the trenching and cable laying.

DeepOcean Group's subsidiary, DeepOcean 1 UK, is to install inter-array cables for the 165MW Bligh Bank Phase II offshore wind farm. The 50-turbine project, 45km off the North Sea coast of Belgium, is under development by Nobelwind. The turbines will be connected in strings with 33kV inter-array cables, linked back to the Nobelwind offshore high voltage substation which, in turn, will be linked to the existing 220kV Northwind offshore substation by an export cable. DeepOcean will be responsible for pre-lay surveys, pre-lay grapnel runs, installation and trenching of 50 array cables, as well as design and supply of the cable

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