News 2015

On the 19th of October 2015 Energinet.dk suffered a fault on the 42 kilometer long Export Cable connecting Horns Rev 2 Offshore Windfarm to the landfall at Henne Strand. After weeks with continuous bad weather JD-Contractor together with jointers from Nexans completed the repair late in the evening of 17th of December allowing for the Windfarm to go back in operation.

JD-Contractor successfully replaced two sections of the Anholt Export cable. The two sections were the shore end section including shore end landing operation and the section at the platform including pull up on the platform. The work was carried out during difficult weather conditions with focus on minimizing power distribution loss.

AHTS Sima was chartered for several months to levelling out and smoothing the seabed for the approach of the Russian cities of Sabetta and Sct. Petersburg.
The task was carried out after sand pumping vessels had removed enormous amounts of sand.
Simultaneously with Sima levelling out the seabed in designated sectors numerous survey vessels carried out surveys while sand pumpers removed sand in other sectors.

After each levelling run another multibeam survey was carried out before Sima went back in to carry out another run till the designated water depth was reached. This process was continued till the Client was satisfied with the depth and smoothness of the seabed in the areas.

Once in a while we get to try something entirely new and different. Like this november when we where asked to assist The Holstebro city chamber of commerce, erect a huge christmas tree in the middle of Holstebro in the stream running thorugh the city.

JD-Contractor assited in putting up the foundation for the tree in the fast running stream before the tree itself was put up.

JD-Contractor carried out a 31 km long multibeam cable route pre-survey for SEV between Sandoy and Suðoroy in the Faroe Islands. The survey was needed for the planning of a new cable route.

In the beginning of September 2015 MS Vina installed four new transmission cables at the Faroe Islands. All four lengths were installed over a period of only five days incl. eight pull-in operations on the rocked coastline. The installation also included both ROV-footage and Multibeam survey of the installed cables.

Sea War Museum Jutland is the first museum in the world dedicated to tell the dramatic stories from the war in the North Sea during the First World War. The new museum is initiated by JD-Contractors founder Gert Normann Andersen and are in part made and funded by JD-Contractor sponsorship.  JD-Contractor is proud once again to have contributed to the creation of a new International Marine Archeological attraction on the Danish west coast.

For the last year or so our website have been through a thorough redesign. One of the major new features is that the homepage is now responsive.

Wavepiston and DanWEC were looking to deploy an anchor system, which will perform as the backbone of Wavepiston’s testing facility south west of Hanstholm Harbour.

JD-Contractor A/S, our Vessel M/S Cable One and her crew assisted in the deployment.

The Danish Road Directorate plan to build a new bridge across Storstrømmen, connecting Sealand and Falster via Masnedø. The bridge will be about 4 km long and have a budget around 4.2 billion. Danish kroner.

The German submarine U-78 have been disappeared for 97 years. JD-Contractor and Sea War Museum Jutland have now located and documented the find.

Two new remotely-operated underwater vehicles (ROV’s) have been added to JD-Contractors fleet inspection ROV’s from Ocean Modules. Seven years after Ocean Modules introduced the original “six degrees of freedom ROV” they are still the only ROV with a control system that allows a full 360 degrees with maintained platform stability.

The replacement of a 12 kV transmission cable to the island of Fur has just been completed by JD-Contractor. The contract was awarded beginning on the 3rd of March 2015. Four weeks later all work was completed and the cable was handed over to the owner.

JD-Contractor A/S have made a small contribution to connecting Lithuania to Northern European Grid by performing Pre-lay Grapnel Run operations along the NordBalt cable route. The start of operation of the new NordBalt cable is scheduled for December 2015.

On 21st of February 2015 Energinet.dk suffered a fault on the Anholt Export Cable between the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm and the shore end landing at Grenaa. The cable fault resulted in loss off power distribution from Anholt OWF towards shore and the Island of Anholt as well.

The final task of the overall assignment of replacing and installing the new Konti-Scan cable is now complete.

JD-Contractor have taken delivery of its new jetting ROV "Subjet IV". The ROV is purpose built for burial of subsea cables and pipelines by our supplier ASME A/S. We have been closely involved in the development of the ROV, and the design is based on the know-how and experience, which we have gained with burial of cables and pipelines throughout the years.