On November 1, 2022, China's leading submarine cable manufacturer, NBDF Submarine Cable Technology Corporation, issued the bid winning announcement:
NBDF won the bid for the Scottish Pentland Firth East project of Jan De Nul, a European offshore construction company.
The main product of the project is 35kV submarine cable. NBDF will provide the end user with submarine cable design, production and transportation services. The total bid winning amount is about 100 million yuan.
This is also to serve NBDF again after its connection project with SSEN Skye Harris Island in 2020. Long term cooperation has enabled European customers to have greater confidence in Chinese products and NBDF.
As a leading Chinese submarine cable company with high-voltage and ultra-high voltage cable technology, NBDF enables European customers to appreciate the confidence of Chinese manufacturing, and is opening up the international submarine cable industry monopolized by European and American industrial giants, and entering the mainstream international power market.
Up to now, in March 2022, NBDF, together with Boskalis, a European engineering company, won the offshore wind power project of the Netherlands National Grid with a bid winning amount of 530 million yuan.
In 2020, NBDF won the South Scotland Grid Company (SSEN) Island Connection Submarine Cable Project with a bid winning amount of 80 million yuan.
In the same year, NBDF contracted Vietnam Binh Dai 310MW offshore wind farm project, becoming the first offshore wind power EPC project in Southeast Asia for Chinese submarine cable enterprises.
In addition, in China's first Sino foreign joint venture offshore wind power project – Guohua Dongtai 500000 kilowatt offshore wind power project, NBDF has also successively provided a full set of solutions including 220kV transmission line (147km), 35kV power collection line (80km), 220kV offshore field hard joint connection, and online monitoring of the whole submarine cable line, and successfully implemented 220kV three core submarine cable offshore cable inversion for the first time, effectively ensuring the high-quality construction of the project.
Technical breakthrough, product innovation and reliable quality are the fundamental guarantees for NBDF to conquer international customers and enter the international market.
The importance of submarine cables as an engine to promote the development of marine economy is self-evident. Large scale offshore wind power development, power supply in coastal areas, ports and islands, offshore oil development, etc. are inseparable from the connection of submarine cables as energy and information channels.
At the same time, as a special cable with high technology content and working under complex working conditions, submarine cable has always been a representative of a country's technical level and industrial capacity, a real "big country heavy weapon".
In this regard, NBDF has successively invested a large amount of funds to tackle key scientific and technological problems, and has undertaken and participated in a number of major national scientific research projects. It has made a series of major breakthroughs in the research and development of submarine cable technology, and many scientific research achievements have filled the gap in China.
NBDF relies on its own research and development and international and domestic scientific research cooperation to develop ultra-high voltage cable and submarine cable system solutions, which are widely used in large-scale offshore wind power centralized development and high-capacity onshore and offshore power transmission and other fields.
NBDF has the ability to design, manufacture and provide engineering services for high-end energy equipment such as 500kV AC sea and land cable system and ± 535kV DC sea and land cable system, and its technologies have reached the international leading level. This alone has provided effective support for the country to develop the marine economy, develop clean energy and achieve the "3060" double carbon target as soon as possible.
The solution of the far-reaching offshore umbilical cable and dynamic cable system developed by NBDF has overcome many "choke" core technologies, such as ultra deepwater and dynamic design, and injected new momentum into the development of deep-water oil and gas exploration and offshore floating wind power in China's comprehensive promotion of deep-water and offshore energy development.
The offshore and onshore engineering service and operation and maintenance system solutions developed by NBDF rely on China's leading offshore and onshore engineering service platform and first-class operation and maintenance service team to build a full process, multi-dimensional and high-quality service system, complete the derivation and innovation from the internationally leading offshore cable flexible joint to the high-voltage onshore cable fusion joint, and promote the improvement of the reliability of power distribution network and rail transit power line connection in many provinces and cities; A sea and land engineering service system integrating laying, installation and engineering operation and maintenance has been established.
In many fields, such as ultra-high voltage offshore power transmission, deep-water oil and gas development, ultra-high voltage onshore DC transmission, NBDF has achieved engineering applications, helping the development of the South China Sea and the localization of high-end electric equipment.