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On Monday, 9th of July 2018, a fault occurred on TDC cable connection between Rødvig and Rønne (Bornholm). The cable is a Fiber Optic Cable and initial TDR measurements positioned the fault to approx. 17 km from Rønne, in water depths of approx. 45 m.
As part of JDC's agreement with TDC, JDC was called in to do a cable repair spread with supporting tug, equipment and personnel for the exact fault location and subsequently to carry out the repair and re-burial of the cable with divers.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S have built the Nissum Bredning Offshore Windfarm in Nissum Bredning, close to Thyborøn on behalf of the owners I/S Nissum Bredning Vind.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S awarded JD-Contractor A/S with the contract for the cable installation and pull in of the three inter array cables and the export cable as well as associated activities for the Nissum Bredning Offshore Project.

The project was carried out in three rounds with the HDD installation in May/June 2017, HDPE & Cable Installation in December 2017 and January/February 2018.

In April 2018 JD-Contractor together with Sea War Museum Jutland made the sensational discovery of the German submarine U-3523 from WWII.
The submarine was discovered during the continued registration of shipwrecks in the North Sea and Skagerrak.

Sea War Museum Jutland onboard our multipurpose survey vessel M/S Vina continues the elaborate mapping of all the possible wreck sites across the sea and it was when investigating such a possible wrecksite that we came upon the U-3523.

We have successfully registered and mapped more than 450 wrecks at sea and counting.

In a consortium with NOV Flexibles (a supplier of high quality flexible pipe systems), JD-Contractor A/S just completed the installation of two flexible flowlines incl. PLEM-systems. The two flowline systems were installed leading from the Client`s factory on shore to an offshore loading station in the Bay of Dakar (Baie de Goree). Innovative engineering and good cooperation between NOV and JD-Contractor once again proved to be a successful combination.

During an installation project in Senegal JD-Contractor’s Tug Bauge was called out for an Emergency towing of a General Cargo Vessel in distress. A fire on board the vessel had left the General Cargo Vessel “Nofit” drifting and unable to sail under own power.

In the afternoon of the 23rd of December 2017 Energinet suffered a fault on the transmission cable to Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This was the third time in 12 years that the transmission cable for Bornholm was damaged by an anchor during the Christmas period. Luckily the effects of this “Christmas Curse” was remedied in record time as a result of the Emergency Repair Framework agreement Energinet upholds with JD-contractor. 

JD-Contractor assisted the Copenhagen Police with a prompt recovery of the Submarine Nautilus, that sank Friday under suspicious circumstances.

JD-Contractor has been awarded the contract for the cabling of the 28MW Nissum Bredning project in Denmark, where Siemens Gamesa will test a variety of its new offshore wind solutions.

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JD-Contractor are among the first to implement the new ISO 9001:2015 and 14001:2015 standards.

The audit was carried out by Bureau Veritas at our sites in Kalundborg as well as Holstebro in March 2017. The audit was successfully completed with no non-conformities or observations.

Vattenfall AB has awarded a framework agreement to JD-Contractor A/S for the contingency repair of export and array cables for offshore wind farms throughout Northern Europe.
 
The agreement covers all Vattenfall's sites in in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark and covers fault finding and repair of damaged subsea cables.
 
The new framework agreement will run from January 2017 for a fixed period of five years with the possibility of extending the contract.
 

Energinet.dk has awarded a framework agreement to JD-Contractor A/S for the contingency repair of its subsea cables. The agreement covers all Energinet.dk subsea asserts in Denmark, among others the transmission systems and the export cables for all Danish Offshore Windfarms.

The agreement will run from September 2016 for a fixed period of five years with the possibility of extending the contract by a further three years.
 

It has now been determined who will receive Lemvig / Good Life Award 2016. It is the man behind the Memorial Park and Sea War Museum in Thyborøn, Gert Normann Andersen, as decided by an unanimous Award Committee. The Award have existed since 1984, and together with the Award itself the winner receives 10,000 Danish kroner from the Nordea Foundation, which is donated to a charity of the Award winners choice. Gert Normann Andersen will be handed the Award at an event later this year on Sea War Museum.
 

Energinet.dk A/S had projected a plan for reinforcement of the 150 kV electricity transmission grid in the northern part of Denmark. As a part of the plan two submarine cable installations were included - across Nees Sund of approx. 1.2 km and across Salling Sund of approx. 2.6 km. The two submarine cable crossings are located in Limfjorden, respectively west and east of the Island of Mors.

Energinet.dk awarded JD-Contractor A/S the contract for the transport and laying of the submarine cables as well as the protection of the cables.

A devastating collision hit the Wavepiston in 2015.

After it was rebuild our Vessel M/S Cable One was contracted in August 2016 to assist with the reinstallation. 

On the 22nd of June JD-Contractor A/S completed the burial of the entire length of the 33 km Horns Rev 3 Export Cable. From the beach 1.5 km North of Henne Strand to the offshore transformer platform at Horns Rev. The total burial campaign was completed in just 12 days - 9 days of operation and 3 days of standby, waiting on weather.

JD-Contractor continuously work with our suppliers to develop new solutions to improve the handling of cable’s and pipelines.
PKJ recently tested their new innovative Flex Track System at our facilities in Kalundborg.

On the 13th of June, JD-Contractor A/S completed the pull-in of the Horns Rev 3 export cable. This was the third time JD-Contractor successfully pulled in an export cable from an offshore transformer platform that collects power from an offshore wind farm at Horns Rev.
 

New floating dock in place in Thyborøn. It was a case of the mouse leading the elephant when the largest dock on the west coast and the third largest in Denmark was connected in the port of Thyborøn with assistance by JD-Contractors small tugboat Naja on the 13th of April 2016.
The name “Thyborøn Shipyard” is now newly painted onto the side of the large floating dock. The company Thyborøn Slipway last summer bought it from the now closed Götaverken in Gothenburg.

The dock may take ships of up to 6,000 tons and up to just over 140 metres in length and 25 metres wide.
This gives Thyborøn Denmark's third largest docking capacity after Fayard in Munkebo and Orskov in Frederikshavn.
JD-Contractor is pleased to have made a small contribution to the beginning of this exciting new project and wish Thyborøn Shipyard good speed for the future.