Cable contract is largest in Middle East
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 25, 2006
Nexans has been awarded a Eur 100 million contract by the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority to supply and install submarine and land cables.
Nexans has been awarded a Eur 100 million contract by the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) to supply and install submarine and land cables to create a new 132kV power link between Abu Dhabi's mainland network and Delma Island.
The Delma contract is the largest Nexans contract signed this year in the Middle East, and underlines the strength of the high voltage power infrastructures market in an area where industrialisation, energy and communication network interconnection programmes are rapidly growing.
Nexans is very active in these larger projects which require numerous cables.
Almost 80% of Nexans sales in this region are tied to high voltage projects.
Nexans has two production plants in the region located in Lebanon and Egypt.
The 45km2 Delma island is located in the extreme west of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), approximately 30km offshore in the Arabian Gulf.
The new power link will provide an additional 100MW of electricity to meet the growing demand of the islands' 10,000 residents.
The Island's new power supply will be taken from Shuweihat power station on the Abu Dhabi mainland, where a new 220/132kV substation will be established.
From there it will be transmitted through two circuits of Nexans' single core XLPE (crosslinked polyethylene) underground cables and two three-core XLPE submarine cables.
The power supply will connect to the existing 11kV network through a new 132/11kV substation on Delma Island.
Nexans will commence the project by carrying out a mobilisation and route survey for the submarine cables over a route length of 40.5km.
It will then supply and install two three-core 132kV XLPE cables with a cross-section of 300mm2 - a total length of 81km of cable, together with fibre optic cables for the control and monitoring of both circuits.
This is the longest single-length three-core 132kV XLPE cable ever delivered by Nexans.
The waters of the Arabian Gulf are notoriously rough in this region, so the cables will be buried in trenches to provide additional protection.
Nexans is also supplying 50km of single core 132kV XLPE cable for the two land cable sections of the project, each comprising two circuits of three cables.
These sections are - Shuwaihat to shore, a route length of 1.58km and shore to Delma island substation, a route length of 6.75km.
The cables will be manufactured at Nexans' Halden plant in Norway.
The project is due to be completed by the end of 2008.
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