Fault location on land and submarine links (AD & DC)

Paris Session 2018

Tutorial

The increasing number of land and submarine cable assets globally has created a focus on cable fault location capabilities.

The tutorial presents the contents of the Technical Brochure dedicated to this subject, covering fault location methods in a large variety of cable installation, such as direct buried cable systems, ducted land cable systems, cables between GIS bays, cables installed in horizontal directional drills and tunnels, cables at large burial depths, cable systems with different bonding types, very long cables. The presented brochure also includes a part dedicated to “Innovation and Future Developments” that describes cutting edge methods that are emerging in the field of fault location.