Kuwait Outsources Cable Maintenance: A unique preventive-maintenance approach for a fluid-filled underground transmission system

摘要

RESPONSIBLE FOR KUWAIT'S POWER NETWORK, THE MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY AND WATER used to be able to manage and fulfill, by way of its own resources, the full range of preventive-maintenance practices on the transmission system. However, for the past decade, due to a lack of skilled workers, the ministry has been successfully outsourcing its preventive-maintenance work on transmission lines, transformers and substations. In 2000, the ministry extended the outsourcing to include routine maintenance on its underground-cable transmission system.