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JDR Cable Systems awards cable protection contract for WindFloat Atlantic JDR Cable Systems (JDR), owned by the TFKable Group, recently awarded Trelleborg’s offshore operation the contract to design, manufacture and deliver dynamic cable protection products for the Windfloat Atlantic project.
It has a total capacity of 25MW in a 100 metre depth area on the Portuguese coast of Viana do Castelo. Set for installation this year, Trelleborg will provide Distributed Buoyancy Modules (DBM), bend stiffeners and Uraduct® for the project. In floating production environments, subsea electrical power cables are used to interconnect floating structures on offshore wind farms and run between the substation and the shore. Trelleborg’s high performance DBMs and bend limitation products are designed to secure, guide and protect power cables from excessive movement and bending that cause fatigue damage. Paul van Es, Renewables Project Manager at JDR, said, ‘We’re delighted to have won this project and to be working with the Trelleborg team. The harsh environment of the Atlantic is a perfect proving ground for floating offshore wind and our technology.’
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KCA Deutag awarded four-year drilling contract on North Sea platform
KCA Deutag’s offshore business unit has been awarded an extension to its existing contract with CNOOC Petroleum Europe Ltd for the Scott platform, which it operates in the UK North Sea. Sign up for the EICOnline newsletter
CNOOC’s Scott platform in the UK North Sea
The contract extension, which is for the provision of drilling operations and maintenance services, came into effect on 1 March 2019. It has an initial term of four years plus a two year extension option. Rune Lorentzen, President of Offshore said, ‘The UK North Sea continues to be an important area of activity for us and we are committed to working with our partners to ensure that we make the most of the substantial reserves we still have in the UK basin. ‘We have been the drilling contractor on the Scott platform since 1992 and are delighted with the commitment to retain us once again.’
The UUV, called Solus-LR, is being designed to be able to travel up to 2,000 kilometres and stay submerged on multi-month missions, supported by an onboard fuel cell power pack. Cellula Robotics has ordered a Micro-Ranger 2 Ultra-Short BaseLine system with optional marine robotics software feature pack, and an AvTrak 6 combined transponder and telemetry transceiver, for tracking the vehicle from the surface, receiving data packets from it and sending mission commands to it, which will be integrated into the UUV.
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Long-endurance underwater drone to be fitted with full suite of Sonardyne technology
Subsea specialist Cellula Robotics has designed a new fuel cellpowered long-range unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) supported by integrated navigation, positioning and communications technology from Sonardyne, for the Canadian defence department.
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Sea trials of the Solus-LR, which are expected to start in late 2019, running through to early 2020, will also be supported using Sonardyne’s Compatt 6 seabed transponders and the company’s BlueComm-200 underwater optical communication instruments. The trials will be held in the Indian Arm fjord, near Vancouver, British Columbia, close to Cellula Robotics’ headquarters.
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For more information: www.sonardyne.com
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