Services Feasibility / Desk Studies

At the design stage of a project, clients wish to select an initial route or routes for the cable or pipeline. The selection of a suitable route involves research into the following:

• Landing sites
• Shipping patterns
• Fishing patterns
• Permitting requirements for survey and installation
• Environmental constraints
• Existing cables and pipelines
• Meteorology, currents and tides
• Seismology
• Geology
• Geomorphology including seabed types

Once the landing sites are selected, a consultant will visit each one to assess their suitability. Information is obtained locally on the following:

• Beach erosion and the general state of the beach both at high and low water
• Access to the beach
• Local facilities
• Fishing patterns
• Shipping patterns
• Other offshore stakeholders including dredging
• Local permitting requirements including environmental constraints

A complete photographic record is kept.

The desk study report contains all relevant information on the selection of:

• The landing sites
• The route
• Pipe / cable types together with their lengths
• Burial considerations
• Recommendations on survey specifications