Sheringham Shoal - windfarm

Nexans assisted in completing protection work.

Project description:

• Complete the protection work of the Sheringham Shoal windfarm – both interarray cables and export cables.

Project challenges:

• Protection work had to be performed at short notice for Statoil.
• Complete the protection work from 5m water depth of the export cables. 

Nexans' solution: The Capjet® was brought in by Statoil to complete the protection work in 2012. Two export cables and 30 inter-windmill cables were trenched and surveyed in less than two months including all weather downtime.  A special shallow-draft vessel was used to perform the trenching from 5 m water depth to the windfarm area.