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The Group has won a major contract from Hyundai Heavy
Industries to design and manufacture energy and telecom
cable connections between four oil platforms in the Barzan
offshore field of Ras Gas, in Qatar.
The Barzan project provides further confirmation of the
validity of the Prysmian Group’s know-how and technologies
used in the oil industry, and also strengthens its market
penetration in a strategic region like the Middle East. The new
contract comes a few months after acquiring other important
Oil & Gas industry projects which the Group is developing in
Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates for Saipem.
In detail, the project includes the design and supply of over 80
km of EPR (Ethylene Propylene Rubber) insulated submarine
cables for distributing power to the platforms, as well as about
28 km of optical telecom cables, plus network components.
All the cables are double wire armoured, which is necessary to
ensure stability on the seabed, and are being manufactured at
the Drammen plant, in Norway.
OFFSHORE OIL & GAS CONNECTIONS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST
MILESTONE
