TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, has signed a contract with Chevron USA to connect its Jack & St. Malo offshore facility with an undersea fibre optic communications system in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. Under terms of the contract awarded to TE SubCom in November 2012, the cable system is slated for completion in May 2014. Jack & St. Malo fields are located approximately 280 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana in water depths of 7,000 feet. The fields are supported by a semi-submersible platform which will be connected by 106km of submarine cable, subsea equipment, and a branching unit to an existing fibre network. The branching unit will incorporate SubCom's OADM technology and transmission works will be done by SubCom's submarine line terminating equipment installed on the facility and in landing stations located in Mississippi and Texas. SubCom will be responsible for the installation, testing and commissioning of the cable system, and will be manufacturing all equipment needed for the project in its Newington, New Hampshire facilities. Jack & St. Malo will be Chevron's fourth facility connected to the deep water fibre network in the Gulf of Mexico.

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