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On 20 December 2011, Red Eléctrica de España (REE) awarded Nexans a turnkey contract worth in excess of €90 million for the first 132 kV AC submarine circuit of the Mallorca–Ibiza interconnection (Rómulo 2). Scope covered design, manufacture, supply, installation, protection and commissioning of approximately 115 km of three-core XLPE-insulated submarine cable with integrated fibre optics, plus 24 km of single-core HV land cable and accessories. The 100 MW circuit was designed to set world records as the longest 3-core HVAC connection and the deepest installation, reaching 750 m water depth. The submarine cable was to be manufactured at Nexans' Halden facility in Norway with fibre optics from Rognan, while the land cables came from the Charleroi factory in Belgium and accessories from Nexans Cossonay in Switzerland. Nexans' own cable-laying ship C/S Nexans Skagerrak — with a 7,000-tonne turntable — was contracted to install the cable as a single continuous length, eliminating subsea joints, with burial via the CapJet jetting system and mechanical trenching. Installation and commissioning were originally scheduled for 2013–2014.