Ezra Holdings, the offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O& G) industry, announced its subsea construction division, EMAS AMC, won a contract by ABB for the installation of subsea power cables. The value of the contract was not stated.
This is part of ABB’s second contract with Statoil, to supply subsea HVDC Light transmission systems to the Troll A platform in the North Sea.
The Troll A concrete deepwater structure is the world’s largest natural gas production platform at 473 meters tall and weighing 1.2 million tons. The platform can produce as much as 120 million cubic meters of natural gas per day and contains 40% of the natural gas reserves on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
EMAS AMC will install one HVAC subsea cable and two circuits of HVDC subsea cables from Troll A to the land station, Kollsnes.
Cable installation operations will be performed during Q2 2014, using EMAS AMC’s  Lewek Connector, currently the world’s largest cable installation vessel in terms of size and payload capacity.
EMAS AMC currently has a long-term agreement with ABB for the  Lewek Connector  in connection with the installation of power cables and related services.