METOC

Intertek Metoc supported TuNur Ltd as marine engineering specialists in identifying a dedicated submarine cable route between the project site in southern Tunisia and the Italian coast for the planned 2,000 MW Tunisia–Italy HVDC interconnector. The scope covered the marine engineering aspects of routing the +/-525 kV bipolar VSC HVDC submarine cable system across the central Mediterranean (eventually defined as approximately 661 km of subsea cable) to the chosen landing point on the Tyrrhenian coast at Montalto di Castro. The engagement formed the marine engineering workstream of the project's early cable route engineering activity, complementing parallel work by Italian consultants CESI on the Italian interconnection point. Public disclosure of Intertek Metoc's involvement was made by TuNur in its February 2013 industry article in The Energy Industry Times, alongside the announcement of Terna's grid connection solution. This is an early-development engineering consultancy and metocean engagement; no contract value or detailed deliverable breakdown is stated in the cited source. The marine engineering work substantiated the cable route concept later submitted to ENTSO-E as Project 283 in successive TYNDP cycles.