Services
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean specializes in the installation and protection of submarine cables and offers services ranging from route selection to maintenance and repair of submarine links, through loading of cable at manufacturing plant and of course submarine cables laying and protection.
We charter support vessels adapted to our projects and we mobilize our equipment on board such vessels worldwide.
Beyond its cable laying and protection activities, Louis Dreyfus Travocean designs and builds equipment necessary for its operations.
Our projects
OUR REFERENCES IN SUBMARINE CABLES INSTALLATION
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean uses its skills and expertise in different sectors of the offshore industry, and performs in particular:
OFFSHORE WINDFARM
Post burial of infield power cables and installation of export power cables between mainland and offshore windfarms
POWER CABLE
Power cables installation between mainland and islands
FIBRE OPTIC CABLE
Shore ends in shallow waters, mainly for fibre optic cables
OIL AND GAS
Installation of cables and umbilicals between platforms, post burial of pipelines in shallow waters, J-tube pulling in Oil and Gas sector
Subsea systems
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF TAILOR-MADE EQUIPMENT
Beyond its cable laying and protection activities, Louis Dreyfus Travocean designs and builds burial machines necessary for its operations (trenchers, vibrating ploughs, jetting sledges, deburial crawler, ROVs etc.)
This capability to design and manufacture tailor-made equipment allows Louis Dreyfus TravOcean to be very responsive and to offer solutions tailored to the needs of its customers.
Support Vessels
From Dynamic Positioning (DP) Vessels to flat barges, Louis Dreyfus TravOcean the most suitable support vessels charters for each project for the working site and scope of work.
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean uses its expertise and experience to adapt/transform chartered vessels by installing on request an anchoring system, accommodation, a cable tank or a turntable, a cable way, a cable chute, the complete burial spread etc.
Who are we?
Since its foundation in Marseille in 1977, Louis Dreyfus TravOcean has acquired over the years a unique expertise in the fields of submarine cable installation and protection covering all types of seabed (from very soft to very hard), working in shallow waters as well as working with all cable types (fibre optic, electric cables and umbilical cables).