Offshore staff
SEOUL, South Korea – DNV has signed a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LS Cable & System to target emerging cabling opportunities in the offshore wind industry.
The MOU comes in response to growing global demand for high-voltage, next generation power cables with dynamic capabilities for near-shore and floating wind farms.
According to DNV, the collaboration represents a new opportunity for it to extend its Dynamic Power Cables Assurance service offering to the cabling market and to leverage the group’s technological expertise in the oil and gas industry for the rapidly expanding offshore wind industry.
For LS Cable & System, this initiative is said to represent one of the early collaborations between a cable-focused original equipment manufacturer and an energy expert and assurance provider.
The MOU will assist LS Cable & System in identifying and reducing risk early in the cable manufacturing process, improving overall decision-making, and helping secure pre-approval for floating power cabling products for offshore wind farm developers.
The MOU will see the companies leverage their collective resources, individual strengths and distinctive capabilities in the following areas:
- Geotechnics: cable protection and burial assessments
- Installation: environmental screening and cable-laying optimization and scheduling
- Materials technology: cable corrosion protection and mechanical testing
- Structural design: dynamic analysis and cross-sectional analysis of cables subjected to floating loads and installation loads
- Forensics: rapid-response investigation into power failures and root cause analysis of third-party cabling.
As part of the MOU, they will develop specific framework agreements to jointly determine their commercial and working arrangements in relation to these various work areas.
05/28/2021
