Proper handling of subsea cables during installation is crucial to ensure their integrity and longevity. However, without knowledge of the correct handling procedures, it's easy to make mistakes that can lead to costly maintenance and repairs, causing significant downtime. We have a blog series dedicated to providing you with essential information on cable handling, especially during installation.
Preventative maintenance is a proactive approach to cable maintenance that aims to identify and fix potential problems before they become bigger issues. By detecting and addressing problems early, you can prevent costly downtime and ensure that the cable systems are operating at optimal efficiency.
Proper cable handling is essential for ensuring the longevity and reliability of your cables. Whether you are shipping, moving, unpacking, or storing them, any mishandling can result in damage that can be time-consuming and costly to fix or replace.
In subsea projects, deck equipment should be qualitative and prevent downtime - especially if used offshore for weeks or even months. Deck equipment that doesn’t work properly dramatically impacts customer satisfaction rates. A company that works hard to improve its customer experience is Honghai Marine. Honghai is an integrator and service provider of deck equipment for oceanographic research ships.
Subsea projects sometimes take place in the most harsh conditions of the world. A company that is known for its solutions within these harsh environments is Geomil Equipment. They design and manufacture equipment for cone penetration testing methods - a technique to test the bearing capacity of soil, onshore as well as offshore.
The drive for more fuel-efficient, sustainable solutions, along with technological improvements, is creating a growing demand for unmanned marine vehicles in many applications. In addition to the more common remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), many of these missions are being carried out by uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) or autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Often, an ROV works in conjunction with a USV.
The global trend toward a more sustainable and socially responsible world has accelerated the transition to renewable energy in the ROV industry. Though some smaller electric ROVs have become more commonplace in recent years, larger work-class ROVs have historically relied on hydraulics to power their operations. As a result of the drive for sustainability, however, OEMs are beginning to develop fully electric work-class ROVs, or eWROVs.
Engineers within subsea projects are often unsure of the pros and cons of steel armoured cable or aramid fibre armoured cable. How can you know the most beneficial armouring for your subsea project as an engineer?
Scarce metals and minerals that we will desperately need in the future lie at the bottom of the ocean for us to pick. Therefore, many countries are looking into the possibilities of deep sea mining: harvesting these raw materials at depths of kilometers. An important role is reserved for ROVs and ROV Cables.
The EU aims to reduce dependency on imports of raw materials. ROVs and ROV Cables play an important role in harvesting such materials in European waters.
For a cutting-edge EU Research Project, DeRegt was asked to join an EU-funded consortium of 14 companies. Industry, research institutes and service companies across seven different countries joined forces.
