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In an ever-changing market, cable company JDR is at
the cutting edge of business. Innovative and dynamic,
it’s an organisation that’s always thinking ahead
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CABLES & INSTALLATION
OFFSHORE WIND ENGINEERING SUMMER 2010
Well connected
JDR is a leading provider of custom-
designed and manufactured static
and dynamic subsea power cables,
umbilical systems and marine cables for
a broad range of applications through-
out the oil and gas sector, offshore
renewable energy industry, and seismic
and defence markets.
This year JDR Cable Systems
was winner of a Queen’s award
for enterprise in recognition of the
company’s international trade suc-
cess. Over the past five years JDR
has made significant investments in
new people, facilities and equipment
to manufacture larger and longer
subsea umbilicals and power cablesfor worldwide projects. New produc-
tion facilities at quayside locations in
Sattahip, Thailand, Hartlepool, England
and Krimpen, Netherlands have ena-
bled the company to deliver complex
systems to a wide range of overseas
projects. The company opened its
purpose-built factory in the deepwater
port of Hartlepool in July 2009 and is
already expanding into adjacent build-
ings and adding larger machinery to
serve demands from the growing off-
shore renewable energy market. The
Littleport, Cambridgeshire UK factory
provides complete workover control
umbilical and reeler packages to the
majority of deepwater oil and gas
projects worldwide. Service centres in
Houston, Texas, and Bergen, Norway
provide the company’s global service
capability.The Hartlepool facility has two
2,200 tonne carousels allowing the
manufacture of medium voltage sub-
sea and surface power cables for the
offshore renewable energy and oil and
gas markets and their complete offer-
ing of production control umbilicals
used throughout the world in offshore
oil exploration. The expansion will
provide two additional 4,000 tonne
carousels and a Vertical Layup Machine
capable of building the largest offshore
power cables and umbilicals in these
markets.
Pat Herbert, Group CEO of JDR
Cable Systems Holdings, commented:
“The expansion of our operation in
Hartlepool and new factory in Krimpenis designed to triple capacity and
throughput in our major facilities to
meet customer demands”.
“The development of the offshore
renewables industry, combined with
the need to recover more oil and gas
reserves from existing fields, has led
to an increase in demand for highly
specialised subsea power cables and
umbilicals and our customers have led
us to significantly increase our produc-
tive capacity. The site in Hartlepool
was designed specifically to manufac-
ture these products, along with long-
length step-out umbilicals for oil and
gas projects, and the response from
the market has been very positive with
booked orders and an advanced stage
of tendering for many other projects
around the world.”
Patrick Phelan, Managing Director,
JDR Cable Systems Ltd., added that:
“We invested £16million in Phase
1 of Hartlepool and have created a
state-of-the-art factory to producearray cables for offshore wind farms,
and subsea power cables and produc-
tion umbilicals for offshore oil and gas
projects.
“This is very significant because
this factory is Britain’s only purpose-
designed subsea power cable fac-
tory that is located at a deepwater
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quayside. From here, we can load out
single products weighing up to 2,200
tonnes each with our current capacity,
growing to 4,000 tonnes by early next
year.”
JDR Cable Systems Ltd. has
driven UK and international growth
from innovation generated at its
Cambridgeshire powerbase - of which
Phelan is incredibly proud.
He says: “Littleport is where the
business was originally established over
30 years ago and is our headquarters
for R & D. From here, we produce
intervention workover umbilical sys-
tems for control of subsea equipment
at up to 10,000 feet water depth.”
Despite its global reach, JDR has
managed to maintain an engineering
presence in the UK. It has teams of
design engineers who work pre-order,
post-order and in R & D, for umbili-cals, power cables, and for the design
of powered reeler systems. These
engineers specialise in these differ-
ent product groups and are based in
Littleport, Hartlepool, and Newcastle
respectively.
Phelan adds that the company’s
graduate development programme
had been key to ensuring a continuous
stream of new talent. “We also have a
team of design engineers in Bangkok,
supporting our factory on the coast of
Thailand,” he says.
In December JDR was awarded
the contract for the supply of subsea
power array cables for the first phase
of London Array Offshore Wind Farm
by the project consortium of DONG
Energy, E.ON and Masdar on the
back of the array cables for Greater
Gabbard offshore wind far and the
25 km export cable for South West
RDA’s WaveHub projec.
The first phase of the London Array
development, consisting of 175 wind
turbines and two offshore substations,
will be installed in water depths of up
to 23m some 20km (12 miles) from
the Kent and Essex coasts in the outer
Thames Estuary. The wind farm will be
connected by subsea export cables to
an onshore substation at Cleve Hill, on
the North Kent coast. From the substa-
tion, the electricity will be fed into the
existing 400kV transmission network.
The scope awarded to JDR includes
the engineering, design and manu-facture of over 200km of 33kV array
cables complete with proprietary hang-
off and termination systems providing
the essential link between individual
wind turbine generators, wind turbine
generator arrays and the offshore sub-
stations. The cables will be produced in
2010 and 2011.
“We set about taking a leading
role in the offshore wind market back
in 2004 when we participated in the
Beatrice Demonstrator project,” says
Phelan. “That was a very small wind
farm with only two turbines linked
back to the Beatrice offshore oil plat-
form, which already had a power cable
running back to shore.
“However, the turbines were the
first 5MW machines to be installed
offshore, and at 50m water depth this
was deep water as far as wind farms
are concerned.
“That experience was vital in pre-
paring ourselves for the technology
required on Round 2, and will also be
relevant to the deepwater locations
required for Round 3.”
Based in Europe’s major technology
cluster, JDR also deserves recognition
as an innovator in its own right.Phelan says: “Innovation is central
to everything we do. From our prod-
uct design, to factory and machinery
design, we are always innovating.
“Offshore oil and gas constantly
presents new challenges and offshore
renewable energy is a whole new
industry. To take a leading role, you
have to lead in terms of innovation,
from factory processes to large scale
system design.
“Our heritage of 30 years of ever-
deeper oil and gas projects has helped
to create the solid foundation of crea-
tive technology that is enabling us to
lead the way in terms of subsea power
cables and umbilical systems for the
entire offshore energy industry.”
For more information on JDR, visit
www.jdrcables.com.
RIGHT Jim Pricefrom the South
West RDA with JDR’s managingdirector Patrick
Phelan
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