Under the contract, the DeepOcean Group subsidiary will be responsible for pre-lay survey, pre-lay grapnel run, post-trench survey and trenching of over 560km of HVDC cable in water depths up to 165m.
The company will leverage its Power Cable Plough 2 (PCP2) to trench approximately 425km of cable, which will be deployed from the Go Pegasus vessel.
DeepOcean UK managing director Tony Inglis said the company’s large portfolio of advanced trenching assets was a key enabler to win the contract, and involves both cable ploughing and jet trenching.
"This project also secures backlog growth for DeepOcean and demonstrates the trust that customers place in us, to perform complex multi-year projects", Tony added.
The company will also perform jet trenching of approximately 135km of cable from one of its permanently mobilized trenching support vessels.
Offshore works are scheduled to start in the second half of 2014, with campaigns continuing into 2015 and through to 2016.
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