Cable contract for sub-sea experts
DARLINGTON sub-sea firm CTC Marine has clinched a major contract in the wind energy market from an international cabling company.
The work for Germany-based Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) will see CTC involved in the installation and trenching of 80 infield cables on the BARD Offshore 1 Wind Farm Project in the western North Sea.
Once operational, the wind farm will produce 400 Mega Watts (MW) of power and will be the first large-scale offshore wind farm to reach a water depth of 40 metres.
CTC managing director Daryl Lynch said it was the firm’s onshore and offshore management and subsea engineering experience that had led to it successfully securing the new wind farm contract.
He added: “CTC is looking forward to establishing a productive and long term relationship with NSW and BARD Engineering in the offshore wind farm business.”
The order follows a successful 2009 for CTC, which last year completed a 33m euros (£29.6m) contract on a sub-sea construction project for oil and gas firm Petrobel in the North Bardawil Field offshore Egypt.
The Tees valley firm also completed its first subsea pipeline ploughing project in the Ledong field, South China Sea, and clinched a seven-figure contract to work on a power cable project led by US engineering giant McDermott International - CTC’s first project in the Middle East.
In the last 13 years CTC has completed more than 100 trenching and cable installation projects and has worked around the globe in countries such as Australia, China, Egypt, Brazil and offshore Africa.
CTC kick-started its global expansion in 2005 by opening a one-man office in Singapore. Since then it has established outlets in Dubai, Egypt and Perth, Australia.
It has been boosted by the support of its parent company, Trico Marine Group, an integrated supplier of subsea marine support vessels and services headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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