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Subsea Cable Asset Management and Reliability Forum brings together key experts from the wind power community globally to discuss the current challenges in continuous risk assessment for cables, cable burial, route optimization, cost reduction, cable repairs, operation and maintenance, and life extension in order to identify best practices. It will showcase real practical examples on what the industry can do to produce optimized solution across the board with regards to survey, burial, engineering, installation, protection, and repair and explore new areas of innovation and techniques for cost reduction. This event provides a unique platform to exchange ideas, network with key representatives from the offshore wind power community and exchange experience to successfully master offshore power cable and installation, maintenance, protection and repair processes.
The Subsea Cable Asset Management and Reliability Forum will feature the prominent experts in offshore power cable development from the leading European countries and industries, as well as the owners and operators will exchange experience with engineers from nations that have future plans to implement.
This two-day senior-level meeting will offer the ideal opportunities for networking and one-on-one meetings and interaction, making the most out of offshore power cables engineering and reliability.
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Over the past years, renewable energy has become a hot topic all around the world. Europe has been facing a massive growth in renewable energy production, which is forecast to grow twice as fast as the energy from non-renewable resources (coal and gas combined) in the upcoming years. And the offshore wind power is the fastest growing market within the entire renewable energy industry.
The growth of offshore wind and interconnection mean that subsea power cables are an increasingly vital part of our energy system. The growing importance of subsea cables creates new opportunities for manufacturers, installers and services provides but also creates new challenges for cable protection, cable installation, cable inspection and improve cable maintenance. One key challenge for offshore wind generation is subsea cable failure, which can lead to a significant loss of power generation and a huge increase in repair costs. Subsea cable incidents account for between 70 – 80% of the total cost of offshore wind farm insurance losses but only account for around 10% of the overall cost of a new wind farm project. The key to developing innovative solutions for deploying and maintaining cables, which will enhance the sustainability and efficiency of this market, is delving into industry’s unique experience in subsea cables.
In 2020, Leadvent Group will host the subsea cable asset management and reliability forum. The event will be completely virtual and accessible through multiple platforms for you to continue learning & networking. Do you wonder what the prospects and potentials of the offshore power cable industry for the future are? Are you aware of the most notable risks for offshore power cable and know how to tackle them? Are you using cable survey technologies efficiently? Do you want to learn about innovative cost effective tools and techniques for cable burial?
Join the two-day exclusive virtual event and gain the fresh insights from the key industry experts from offshore wind farm operators, subsea cable installation companies, TSOs, UXO, cable manufacturers and experts in repair & maintenance, and learn how to augment cable integrity and manage cost during offshore projects.
Participating in this event will offer you the newest ideas on how to efficiently cope with the changes and keeping up with market trends. Tracking the entire cables lifecycle, the subsea cable asset managemement and reliability conference will also focus on improving subsea power cable maintenance, reducing costs & risks, alleviating cable fatigue and improving subsea power cable efficiency and performance.
Join the attendees, senior and middle level decision makers – Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads, Team Leaders, in sharing the experience and finding the solutions on offshore power cables reliability.
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Panel Discussion with Interactive Q&A
Offshore Wind Subsea Cable Market Trends and Future Outlook
- Global overview: 2030 installation forecast, market updates and O&M demand for cables
- Overview of R&D activities for bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind subsea cables
- Recent developments in the subsea cable market
- The opportunity for cable optimisation through improved monitoring
- The future of cables and future topologies
- Subsea cable O&M strategies: near-shore versus far-from-shore
- Analysis of cable failures: one-off / serial failures, downtime and repair costs
Shimeng Yang
Senior research analyst, Wood Mackenzie
Offshore Wind will be the Largest Submarine Power Cable Segment by 2027
- The outlook of global submarine power cable up to 2027 including interconnector projects, umbilicals for offshore O&G projects and subsea cables for offshore wind
- The outlook of HVDC cables for offshore wind – the demand for HVDC cables will spike in mid-2020s.
- The market size of the global offshore wind subsea power cable market
Michael Brooks
Senior Executive, 4C Offshore Limited
Subsea Cable Asset Management and Reliability
Subsea power cables are essential to meet European energy transfer objectives: overview of current size and future market projection: the issue - critical risk mitigation disciplines essential to address Insurers and Investor confidence arising from current level of installation and reliability failure
- Market intelligence overview - subsea cables
- Inter Array
- Interconnector
- Insurance perspective - current issues
- MBR
- Installation
- other
- Risk mitigation
- expertise to improve investment appetite
- long term asset performance
- balance sheet protection of capital / income
- return on investment
Roberto Longo
Engineering Manager, Longitude Engineering
Nearshore Subsea Cable Installation: Understanding Metocean Characteristics and their impact on Project Operability and Risk
- In most OWF projects, Meteocean data are assessed at early stage and most of time only focussing on the offshore wind farm location
- In the nearshore area the wave and current characteristics can be very different due to the shallower water depth and coastal features
- As a consequence a better understanding of nearshore Metocean characteristics is crucial to optimise the nearshore operations during the engineering phase
- A better understanding of nearshore environmental characteristics can therefore reduce the risks and optimise the operability/performance
Mike McLachlan
Renewables Business Line Director, London Offshore Consultants Limited
Current Installation Risks from an MWS Perspective
- Planning – The engineering and operational planning issues and risks
- Operations – Loadout, installation, protection and repair issues and risks
- Current issues – Effects of Covid-19 restrictions.
Victoria Phillips
Director ERW (Marine), RPS Energy
UXO Risk Management and Cable Installation
- What are the risks from UXO to cable projects and how to assess them
- Determining the risk horizon in relation to cable burial and finding the correct tools to mitigate the risk.
- The effects of site conditions on how UXO can be mitigated and how long for
- Effective design strategy and management is key to safe and efficient UXO mitigation implementation, to ensure cable installation projects can be completed safely and without unnecessary delay or costs.
Daniele Caruso
Subsea Cable Project Manager, Offshore Wind Consultants Ltd
Dynamic Power Cables - Understanding Risks from Installation to O&M
- State of the art of dynamic power umbilical technology for floating offshore wind applications
- Failure mechanisms associated with the dynamic power umbilical’s installation and operations
- Critical elements to be addressed from catenary configuration, installation and O&M
- Possible mitigation and future studies to be conducted to address the current gaps.
Etienne Rochat
CTO, Omnisens SA
Offshore Cable Condition Monitoring and Load Management using Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing
- Principle of Distributed fibre optic sensing (DFOS)
- Use of DFO for condition monitoring, operation and fault finding
- Load management
Daniele Cerizza
Head of HV and Submarine Asset Management Services, Prysmian Group
The Future of HV and Submarine Asset Management Services
Jakub Vastmans
Senior Manager Product Development, Service & Installation, NKT
HV Submarine Cable Repairs – Minimizing Downtime with Preparedness
- Importance of addressing potential impact of cable failures
- Repair timeline and critical pit-falls
- Quick-win strategies for minimizing outage duration
- Securing a suitable cable repair vessel and spare parts
Charlotte Strang-Moran
Electrical Engineer, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Subsea Cable Failure Trending: Benchmarking Cable Failure and Defects
- Benefits of industry benchmarking
- Limited availability to lessons learned and benchmarking available to the cable sector.
- ORE Catapult’s goal to support the drive for progression in the cable sector and improve insight across the wider industry.
Alex Gauntt
Commercial Director, Irish Sea Contractors
Innovating Subsea Cable Repairs
- Subsea power cable failure trends
- Considering repair methods
- Why Lift? Enabling in-situ subsea cable repairs
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Panel Discussion with Interactive Q&A
Smart Subsea Cable Operations and Maintenance – Creating Value from Big Data & Data Analytics
- How can we manage the O&M data?
- How data & digital innovation can be a game changer for offshore cable O&M
- What can we do to leverage the value from O&M data?
- What is the state of the art of offshore wind O&M data analytics?
- How can we define big data needs for offshore wind O&M?
Saul Matthews
Commercial Director, Synaptec Ltd
New Techniques to Avoid Damage and Premature Cable Ageing
- Everyone wants to make cables last longer, avoid outages and replacements, and in day to day operation, unlock the maximum potential capacity of cables without causing damage.
- We are the only technology which is scalable and reliable enough to do all of this across an entire windfarm, permanently and affordably
- Benefit to operators; reduced outage, increased availability and lifespan of HV assets, optimised O&M costs and ultimately, the insight to design-out the causes of PQ damage
- We will explain how this works and what the benefits are
Mark Finch
Managing Director & Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Ternan Energy
It’s the Soil Stupid…
- Survey once (maybe twice), trench and go home
- 5 things we all know (but don’t always remember)
- 2 things you (maybe) don’t know
- Thoughts after 30 years in the business
- Questions (and hopefully some answers)
Johnny Soerensen
Technical Product Manager, Siemensgamesa A/S
Innovative Offshore Cable Solution
- Ability to use standard onshore cables
A wider range of cable suppliers, enable local sourcing of cable and pipe - No losses from steel armoring in the cable
- Cost saving
- O&M advantages
Sean Kelly
Founder, Transmission Excellence Ltd
Optimising the Design of Array Cables Configured as Loops
On recent projects wind farm developers have used optimisation software to refine the layout of the array cables that connect the turbines to the offshore substation. Recently a new approach has been developed which offers a number of improved features, especially for projects where the array cables are configured as loops in order to provide a degree of robustness against cable failures. This presentation explains the new approach and presents validation studies showing that it enables substantial cost reductions.
Chas Spradbery
Operations Director, Peritus International
The Effects of Liquefaction on Subsea Cables
- What is liquefaction and should I be worried?
- How does liquefaction affect cables on slopes
- The effects of liquefaction on cable entry systems and pull out potential
Steven Rossiter
Chief Technology Officer, Tekmar Group plc
Developments in Cable Modelling and Protection Design
- Cable component stress modelling including metallic screen wires
- Bend stiffness modelling and the effects of temperature and tension
- Integration of cable design to protection design
- Next generation cable protection designs
Kevin Black
Technical Director, Partrac
Towards a Unified Industry Guidance for Seabed Mobility Assessments
- The apparent lack of cross-sector guidance
- Results of an industry workshop
- Development of a Joint Industry Project
- Publication of guidance under a suitably esteemed body
Roel Vanthillo
CEO, Marlinks
Thermal Modelling of Cables
- IEC 60853 vs reality
- How to test?
- Experimental behavior vs finite-element modelling
- Impact on Real-time Thermal Rating
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