Wind Energy – Inter Array Cables
DEME’s cable-laying vessel (CLV) Viking Neptun is scheduled to begin installing the first inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm site in the UK this weekend.
The vessel will lay the inter-array cable onto the seabed, where the cable will remain exposed until trenching is performed, which is scheduled to be carried out in September/October.
The Viking Neptun will be assisted by the walk-to-work (W2W) vessel Norside Cetus in deploying cable pull-in teams.
In 2021, DEME Offshore won the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the inter-array cables at the Dogger Bank C, having previously been awarded the same work on Dogger Bank A and B.
For this third phase of the UK’s Dogger Bank Wind Farm project, DEME’s scope of work includes supplying approximately 250 kilometres of 66 kV inter-array cables and all related accessories, as well as installing them.
