For the HVDC submarine cable project, the joint venture of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), Electricité de France (EDF), and Kyushu Electric Power Japan has been awarded the project. The deal is valued at USD 3 billion.
January 10, 2022
Jan De Nul and Samsung C&T consortium has secured a contract, which will mark as the biggest-ever cable installation contract for Jan De Nul. The project is about delivering an HVDC cable and convertors package for the USD 3.6 billion ADNOC-TAQA Lightning Project.
Being regarded as the first-of-its-kind HVDC submarine cable project in the Middle East and MENA region, the contract has been awarded by the joint venture of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), Electricité de France (EDF), and Kyushu Electric Power Japan. The deal is valued at USD 3 billion of which USD 725 million is reserved for Jan De Nul’s scope.
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The cable clusters will be almost 1,000 km long linking the islands of Al Ghallan and Das in the Arabian Gulf to the onshore converter stations located at Al Mirfa and Shuweihat in Abu Dhabi. In this, the first cable cluster, connecting Das Island to shore, comprises three 400 kV subsea cables of 135 km each. The second cluster, connecting Al Ghallan island to shore, concerns four 320 kV submarine cables of 125 km.
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Wim Dhont, manager of Offshore cables at Jan De Nul, said, “This project will entail many of Jan De Nul’s versatile expertise such as cable laying, dredging, jet-trenching, rock protection, landfall preparation, riser platform fabrication, and offshore installation. With two of the world’s largest cable installation vessels in our fleet (the Isaac Newton and the Connector), we are well prepared for the future works in the DC and AC subsea cable markets.”
Hitachi Energy is going to supply four converter stations, which convert AC power to DC for transmission in the subsea cable and then reconvert it to AC from DC for use in the offshore power systems.
