European JV-owned vessel brings in cable from South Korea to two Senegalese links

A cable-laying vessel (CLV) owned by a joint venture of UK’s Enshore Subsea and Belgian Herbosch-Kiere has brought 31 kilometers of subsea cable to the project site of two links that are part of a program that aims to revolutionize Senegal’s power infrastructure and provide sustainable electricity to millions of people.

Under a $200 million contract, the partners are delivering onshore and offshore works for the two links for the Senegal Power Compact program, financed by the U.S.-based Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Senegalese Government to contribute to the global fight against poverty.

The joint venture’s DP2 CLV CMOS Installer on May 31 collected a shipment of 31 kilometers of 225 kV subsea cable from LS Cable & System’s Donghae shipyard in South Korea.

On September 30, 122 days later, the vessel arrived at the Bay of Dakar in Senegal, where two 15.5-kilometer cable lengths will be used to provide an underwater link across the bay, from Rive Bel Air to Cap Des Biches.

Enshore Subsea and Herbosch-Kiere manage the full EPCI contract for the project on behalf of the client Millennium Challenge Account Senegal II (MCA-Senegal II).

Eiffage Sénégal is responsible for the onshore civil engineering works near Rive Bel Air, while Eiffage Énergie Systèmes will install the onshore cables.

The Senegal Power Compact is a grant agreement between Senegal and the U.S., managed between MCA-Sénégal II and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent U.S. government development agency.