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Cameroon cable

Cable lay contract

Fugro has secured a contract for the installation and burial of 122 array cables at the Rampion offshore wind farm, located 13km off the Sussex, UK, coast. The contract was awarded by E.ON with the UK Green Investment Bank. Engineering and planning will begin immediately with installation to be carried out in two phases in 2016 and 2017. Construction is expected to be completed in 2018. Fugro will lay the cables using its construction and installation vessels Fugro Symphony and Fugro Saltire , and will use one of its two Q1400 trenching systems to bury the cables. The array cables will be pulled-in and laid between the wind turbines and the offshore substation from where the power is transmitted onshore. “The award of this contract has strengthened Fugro’s successful working relationship with E.ON and comes soon after finishingcable-layandburial onE.ON’s recently completed Humber Gateway wind farm,” said Derek Cruickshank, MD of Fugro Subsea Services Ltd. The Rampion offshore wind farm will consist of 116 turbines, each with a generating capacity of 3.45MW.

Nexans will supply approximately 1,100km of its repeatered optical cables (ROC-2) to Huawei Marine for the Nigeria-Cameroon submarine cable system (NCSCS). The NCSCS, with a capacity of 12.8Tbps, will deliver broadband to users in both countries by the end of 2015. Optical repeaters were integrated into the cables by Huawei Marine at Nexans’ facility in Rognan, Norway. The cable system will be the first to be wholly owned by Cameroon. “Nexans has met the needs of our project by not only producing high quality repeatered cable, but also providing dedicated support in the complex process of integrating the repeaters into the cable. The delivery of these cables is a key milestone in the NCSCS project,” said Kevin Zhang, project director at Huawei Marine. Krister Granlie, executive vice president of hybrid underwater cables at Nexans, added: “The NCSCS project represents a key milestone for Nexans in entering the repeatered cable system market, and we look forward to continue collaborating with Huawei Marine in the future.”

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