South Korea’s LS Cable and System (LS C&S) announced in a statement that, it has secured a contract for the supply of submarine cables project to connect Bahrain’s Hawar island.
The contract was awarded by Saudi based construction Company, Al-Gihaz. The value of LS C&S signed contract is $85 million. The end user of the project will be EWA (Electricity & Water Authority), Bahrain.
The company said that the deal is on a turnkey basis, to supply the submarine cables needed to connect 25 kilometers between the Bahrain’s main island and its Hawar Islands in the southeast.
The specifications of the cable is three 3-core, 66 kV, XLPE submarine cable with built-in fibre optic cable.
LS C&S Scope of work includes the supply of cables, installations works. The project is expected toc omplete by September 2021
As Bahrain plans to develop the Hawar Islands as a tourist complex, it sought to build a submarine power grid to supply electricity there, in an environment-friendly way instead of constructing a power plant, the notification stated.
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