Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

There have been questions in telecomunmications circles on a pledge in the SNP manifesto of an extra subsea fibre telecommunications cable to increase resilience to Shetland.

It is pointed out that there is probably sufficient backup capacity of telecommunications cables to Shetland and that the issue in recent years, including the two extended outages for some customers last year, was not due to lack of backup capacity but instead it was certain service providers either failing, or refusing, to buy backup on alternative cable routes for their customers, something that might not change with another cable in place.

SSEN Transmission has confirmed the completion of the new £23 million, 22 kilometre, 132 kilovolt electricity transmission link between the Kergord sub-station and the Gremista grid supply point, including the soon-to-be-completed battery park and the Gremista soon-to-be-standby power station.

The floating production storage and offloading vessel the Petrojarl Rosebank, due to be anchored in the Rosebank field 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst, is heading through the English Channel, passing north-west Guernsey, accompanied by its support vessels.

White fish box landings: 9 boats landed about 1400 boxes. The landings so far this week are about 6000 boxes.

It has been announced that mussels that are rope grown in Shetland, and elsewhere, and have been certified to a Marine Stewardship Council standard since 2012, are contained in a new premium product launched this week by Asda.

Aberdeen based Adura, the 50:50 joint-venture of Shell and Norwegian state energy company Equinor in oil and gas fields off Shetland, has indicated that a buy-in to the Cambo field, 85 nautical miles west Unst, is not an area of focus.