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Global Offshore secures cable agreement with Equinor

By: Tom Russell 02/03/2021 Global Offshore

Cables General Vessels Windfarms

Global Offshore, part of the Global Marine Group, has announced a multi-year cable maintenance and management framework agreement with Equinor.

The framework agreement will see primary contractor Global Offshore supply cable management services and perform associated call off services, comprising active cable maintenance and unplanned repairs. Global Marine Group will utilise its fleet of cable ships and crew transfer vessels, including Global Symphony and Normand Clipper, equipped with the company's Q1400 jet trenchers.

The framework agreement covers the onshore and offshore export cables at Equinor’s Dudgeon wind farm, as well as the offshore export cables at Hywind and Sheringham Shoal, with the potential to cover other wind farms in the future.

The Complete Cable Care solution is designed to proactively maintain cable assets and respond quickly to power cable damage. The service is supported by a maintained stock of universal power joints, as well as access to jointers, prepared to respond rapidly to a fault or incident.

Director of Power Cable Maintenance at Global Offshore, Andrew Lloyd, said: “We have been providing an unsurpassed cable care service to the offshore renewables industry since the very first European wind farm installation 20 years ago. In the present day, we manage multiple framework agreements, covering over 2,500km of subsea power cable as part of our Complete Cable Care solution, utilising pre-engineered scenario plans alongside access to the right cable spares, joints, jointers and assets, to support our clients’ operations.”

Lloyd continued: “Though our first to include the maintenance of onshore cables, our framework agreement with Equinor is one of many Complete Cable Care contracts we have in place with OFTOs and wind farm owners across the globe. Being chosen as Equinor’s primary contractor further cements our position as the number one cable care provider in the industry.”

The framework agreement will mark the second contract for Global Offshore at Equinor’s Hywind offshore wind farm. In Autumn 2017, Global Marine Group carried out the survey and trenching activities, involving cutting and jetting techniques, of the subsea export and four inter-array cables at the Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, a five turbine, 30 MW floating wind farm, located 25-30 km off Peterhead, North-East Scotland.

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