NKT has successfully completed the project of the power from shore cable system for the Martin Linge oil and gas field in Norway for the end client Equinor.
March 20, 2019
NKT has handed over the 163 km long high-voltage cable system powering the Norwegian oil and gas field Martin Linge from the shore. The cable solution is the world’s longest submarine HVAC cable installed and will help save 200,000 tonnes CO2 annually.
The cable system solution from NKT plays a key part in making the field more carbon-efficient as is it powered from shore by the record breaking 163 kilometers long 145 kV high-voltage alternate current (HVAC) power cable. The project has been successfully executed in the challenging environment of the North Sea on behalf of Subsea 7.
NKT has specially designed, engineered, manufactured and installed the cable order comprising the 145 kV three-core XLPE HVAC submarine cable including fiber optic links with a 55 MW capacity. Furthermore, a 3.5 km long, 17.5 kV infield cable was installed – including 500 meters of dynamic cable. The dynamic cable that connects the platform to a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) anchored outside the platform was intensely engineered by NKT to withstand the dynamic motions.
