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Project advancing - milestone achieved
Medium Impact
Significant progress or notable issue
On 15 October 2015, DONG Energy (now Ørsted) awarded DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd a contract covering route engineering plus installation and trenching of approximately 136km of offshore export cables and a 23km subsea interlink cable for the Walney Extension project, with the offshore works to be carried out using the new cable installation vessel Maersk Connector, which was due to be available for offshore installation activities during 2016; this marked the planned start of offshore export and interlink cable installation for the Walney Extension transmission link connecting the two offshore substations to shore near Heysham.