Installation capabilities

The current pride of the fleet is the C/S Nexans Skagerrak, one of the world’s most advanced cable-laying vessels, with a 7,000 tons capacity turntable, a state-of-the-art dynamic positioning system, touchdown monitoring ROV and Capject trencher. During the years, this cable-laying vessel has installed the longest and deepest cable links around the world, most recently the Monita link between Montenegro and Italy and the NordLink between Norway and Germany. The vessel is also capable of performing both deep water and shallow water repairs of the installed power cable links and can deploy Nexans’ Capjet trenching system for protection. There are multiple examples of the C/S Nexans Skagerrak in repair actions like the repairs of damages to the 400 kV HVAC submarine cables across the Strait of Gibraltar and the 450 kV HVDC cable between Norway and the Netherlands.

The innovative and bespoke Capjet trenching systems have been developed to provide an efficient solution for the protection of subsea cables and pipelines based on the water jetting principle. The Capjet is a deep-water, remote-controlled high power water-jet trenching system and since its introduction has buried more than 8,000 km of cables, umbilicals, and pipelines. Nexans owns and operates three Capjets systems that can be easily transported and mobilized on board a vessel of opportunity.