Aberdeen firm Canyon Offshore will carry out trenching work on the North Sea Link Interconnector project.
The subsea system linking the UK and Norway will be the world’s longest subsea interconnector.
It will be installed between Blyth in England and Kvilldal in Norway at a cost of 1.5billion to 2billion euros.
Canyon will trench about 900kilometres of seabed to make room for the cables.
Prysmian PowerLink awarded the multi-million pound trenching contract to Canyon.
The project will be managed from Canyon’s offices in Dyce, Aberdeen.
Euan Roberts, commercial and sales director, Canyon, said: “We have successfully trenched hundreds of kilometres of interconnector cables around Europe in recent years, building upon our already established and successful oil and gas trenching market.
“This is our first contract with Prysmian and we are proud to have been selected for such a prestigious and historical project.”
Carol Webb, project director at Prysmian PowerLink, said: “We are pleased to welcome the Canyon Offshore team to this ground-breaking project, and look forward to working together to safely and successfully deliver the project over the next few years.”
Canyon is a wholly-owned UK subsidiary of the Helix Energy Solutions Group, headquartered in Houston, Texas, which is an international offshore energy services company focused on well intervention and robotics.
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