General – Route Survey
Italy-headquartered Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has begun seabed surveys along the cable corridor route for the second electrical interconnector between Malta and Italy.
The IC2 interconnector will link the Terna substation at Ragusa, Sicily, and the Enemalta terminal station in Maghtab, to be laid in parallel to the existing HVAC cable link.
InterConnect Malta reported that the survey vessel had completed mobilization and was set to begin seabed mapping operations from Sicily towards Malta, covering a 50-meter corridor along the 100-kilometer route.
The Detailed Marine Survey (DMS) uses ROV-mounted multi-beam, side-scan, sub-bottom, image capture, and /UXO checks to de-risk the corridor and confirm burial and protection strategies, and will cover an area of about 5 square kilometers, InterConnect Malta said.
