Marlinks secures first cable monitoring offshore contract
21/07/2023
Belgium-based Marlinks has secured its first major contract in Taiwan, providing cable health monitoring services for the export and inter-array cables of the 1044 MW Hai Long offshore wind farm.
The contract awarded covers the design, supply, installation and commissioning of monitoring hardware and ongoing provision of integrity monitoring services, including depth of burial, real- time thermal rating (RTTR), distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) monitoring and termination monitoring.
Roel Vanthillo, Co-Founder and CEO of Marlinks, said: “We can only encourage Hai Long’s choice to select a complete cable health monitoring package, covering not only services based on temperature monitoring but also on vibration monitoring. We look forward to working with the Hai Long project team on monitoring its cables in these challenging sea conditions to ensure the power cables’ integrity remains intact throughout the operational lifetime.”
As Marlinks continues to invest in the East Asian market it plans to open a branch office in Taiwan in 2023, having set up a representative office in 2022.
The 1044 MW Hai Long development will comprise two offshore wind farms that will be developed in three stages, with Hai Long 2 split into two phases: the 300 MW Hai Long 2a and the 232 MW Hai Long 2b. Hai Long 3 will have an installed capacity of 512 MW.
In July 2022, Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables, was awarded an agreement for the supply of 66 kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE)-insulated inter-array cables and associated accessories for the Hai Long 2 and 3 offshore wind project. A few months later, LS Cable & System signed a submarine cable supply agreement worth $150 million (approximately £119 million) for the offshore wind project.
