Applications
ARCAB's armoured cable and coiled tubing technology serves three application domains where the cost of failure is highest and where conventional products fall short.
1. Strengthening security infrastructure for critical industries
Critical infrastructure faces an unprecedented combination of threats: deliberate sabotage, geopolitical risk, vandalism, accidental damage from civil works, and the slow, predictable degradation of cables and conduits installed decades ago. The cost of a failure in any of these domains is no longer just operational — it is societal.
ARCAB's solid, gas-tight steel armour provides physical protection that conventional cables cannot match. The single-layer interlocking construction is mechanically resistant to crushing, abrasion, and direct attack, and the impermeable sheath blocks the chemical and moisture ingress that drives long-term cable degradation.
Power grid infrastructure
Hardened conduits for high-voltage transmission and distribution lines, especially in regions where buried cables are exposed to civil-works damage, agricultural activity, or deliberate interference. Protected cabling for substations, switchgear, and distribution-network protection systems. Enhanced resilience for cables underpinning the energy-transition build-out of solar farms, wind farms, and battery storage installations.
Telecommunications and data infrastructure
Hardened protection for fibre-optic backbones in remote, exposed, or politically sensitive locations. Cable protection for cellular base stations, especially remote or vulnerable sites where conventional cabling is a recurring point of failure. Resilient conduits for the data-centre interconnects underpinning cloud and AI infrastructure.
Transport infrastructure
Signalling, power, and data cable protection for rail networks, including high-speed lines where the consequences of cable damage are severe. Cabling for tunnels, bridges, and other infrastructure where replacement is operationally impossible without major disruption. Hardened cabling for road infrastructure, traffic management systems, and tolling installations.
Industrial sites
Power and control cabling for chemical plants, refineries, and process industries operating in chemically aggressive environments. Cabling for mining operations where rock fall, abrasion, and crushing forces destroy conventional cables. Protection for cables in marine and offshore installations exposed to saltwater corrosion, pressure, and mechanical damage.
2. Coiled tubing for geothermal heat
Geothermal energy is one of the most predictable, highest-availability renewable resources, but its economics depend on infrastructure that lasts: heat-exchange tubing must survive decades in environments combining high pressure, high temperature, aggressive ground water chemistry, and continuous thermal cycling.
ARCAB's coiled tubing is engineered for exactly these conditions: high-temperature operation up to 280 °C in service (with material capability to +350 °C), chemical resistance to H₂S, ammonia, and sulphuric acid common in geothermal brines, pressure rating up to 450 bar for deep-well applications, single-layer interlocking armour that eliminates the seam-corrosion and weld-defect failure modes of conventional tubing, and a smooth interior for consistent fluid flow without scaling deposition at seams.
The same coiled tubing serves heat-exchange systems for direct geothermal use, ground-source heat pump installations at industrial scale, and deep geothermal power generation.
3. Oil and gas — the heritage application
The technology was originally developed for the most demanding cable and tubing applications on Earth: deep, hot, high-pressure, chemically aggressive oil and gas wells. More than a decade of engineering refinement has produced a product that excels in the upstream sector's most challenging operations.
Well intervention and logging
The semi-rigid, pushable construction is uniquely suited to deep, complex, and horizontal well geometries where the friction of conventional cables limits reach. The smooth outer surface enables faster deployment and retrieval at greater depths.
Electric submersible pump (ESP) installations and downhole equipment
The impermeable steel sheath provides unmatched protection for power and data cables serving electric submersible pumps, downhole sensors, and intelligent completion systems — the cabling that keeps modern wells producing.
Hydraulic fracturing operations
Durable, reusable cable protection in the abrasive, high-pressure, chemically aggressive environments characteristic of fracking operations. The mechanical robustness of the single-layer steel armour withstands cycles of deployment, retrieval, and high-pressure stimulation that destroy conventional cables.
Subsea and offshore
Impermeable armouring resistant to saltwater corrosion, pressure, and mechanical damage from subsea operations — for both power transmission and communication cabling between offshore installations and shore.