NKT will repair the Skagerrak 2 offshore cable, which was damaged in July due to an external impact. The service is scheduled to begin in late October and is expected to continue in November.
The Skagerrak 2 is a 250kV mass impregnated (MI) high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable is located between Kristiansand in Norway and Tjele in Denmark.
NKT will provide the repair services which will include project management, jointing engineering, marine engineering and supply of jointing material to the full repair operation. For this service operation, the company will use its cable-laying vessel Victoria.
NKT service and accessories head and executive vice president Oliver Schlodder said: “We are very pleased to be working with Statnett to get the link operational as soon as possible so the energy connection between Norway and Denmark is fully restored.
“It is a challenging time of the year to do a high-precision offshore operation but with the technological capabilities of our vessel NKT Victoria and the experienced organisation we can manage the operation and help Statnett reduce the down time of the cable.”
In late September, NKT was chosen as the preferred supplier of export and array cable system for the 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm which will be constructed 33km offshore in the UK North Sea.
For the offshore wind farm project, NKT expects to manufacture about 100km of 220kV offshore export cables and 144km of 66kV array cables. The value of the contract is estimated to be €115m. NKT expects to supply the cables either in the last quarter of 2019 or in the second quarter of 2020.
Image: NKT’s Victoria vessel will be used for the repair of the interconnector cable between Norway and Denmark. Photo: Courtesy of NKT Group GmbH.
