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Projects

 

Successful Projects

Global Marine Systems Energy has a history of involvement in successful subsea projects in the Energy market such as:
  • Gjøa Power Cable: The Gjøa semi-submersible platform in the North Sea is the first floating production platform to be supplied with electrical power via a submarine power cable running from the mainland. It is the world’s longest alternating current cable to be installed in one piece.
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  • Horns Rev: One of the first offshore wind farms in Europe involving the installation and burial of 80 inter-array cables.
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  • Kentish Flats: One of the first major offshore wind farms operating in the UK, providing power from the Thames Estuary to the coast in Kent. Global marine installed and buried 3 export cables and 27 inter-array cables.
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  • Blyth Offshore Wind Farm: The first of its kind in the UK and constructed in 2000, the site is located one kilometer off the Northumberland coast and is subject to the full environmental forces of the North Sea. Global Marine mobilized a locally based barge to install the 11kV power cables linking the wind turbines to the shore.
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  • Beatrice Demonstrator Wind Farm: The installation and burial of the cables connecting the world’s first two offshore 5MW turbines and the Beatrice Alpha production platform.
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  • EstLink: An HVDC inter-connector link between Estonia and Finland comprising of some 77 kilometers of bundled power cable, installed and buried by the CS Sovereign.
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  • Barrow Wind Farm: Remedial works carried out on the inert-array cables using the Sovereign and Atlas 1 trencher ROV.
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  • OWEZ Wind Farm: Reburial of the export cables and the inter-array cables using the Sovereign and the Atlas 1 trencher ROV.
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  • Horns Rev 2: Global Marine systems successfully completed the installation and burial of all the 91 inter-array cables using two cable lay barges namely the Pontra Maris and the Stemat 82. The burial of the cables was performed by the powerful Atlas ROV onboard the CS Sovereign. The joint venture also successfully completed the burial of 175 flexible pipes, the installation of 175 concrete mattresses and over 100m of cable protection.
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  • London Array: Contract to install four offshore export cables and installation and burial of 175 array cables as part of the building of the first 630MW phase of the London Array offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary.

  • Nord E.On 1 (BorWin 1): The installation and burial of the 110kms HVDC windfarm export cable in Germany using the Team Oman to install the cable and the Excalibur trenching system to post-lay bury it.

  • Gwynt y Môr: The installation of export cables 13 kilometres off the North Wales coast, in water depths of 12-28 metres, for a 576MW offshore windfarm, one of the largest currently in construction in Europe.

  • BritNed: The power interconnector cable between the UK and The Netherlands is currently being installed by Global Marine Systems Energy. Utilising the Team Oman and the North Ocean 102 to install the bundled HVDC system, the cable is being buried by the Excalibur trenching system. Completion is due early Q3 2010.


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With well over a century of experience, Global Marine Systems Energy helps utilities and renewable energy companies build new capacity, increase efficiency, reduce risk and deliver energy in a more environmentally friendly manner.