oil-filled cable

The fire originated in a cable terminating room on the ground floor and was fueled by a large quantity of oil-filled cables and cable oil.

Oil-filled cable replacement: A small proportion of Power Networks' high voltage cable system is of the oil-filled type.

Closure of part the Erith works by Pirelli was announced in 2002, with production of oil-filled cable transferred to their Eastleigh works in Hampshire.

The high-voltage cable of the Kontek is implemented as paper-isolated oil-filled cable with two copper conductors with a cross section of 800 mm permanently joined in parallel.

Soon afterwards mercury vapor street lighting was installed in London Street and Norton Rd. 33kV gas- and oil-filled cables were laid from 1960 and switched on in April 1974.

For high voltage and extra-high voltage networks underground cables were used (in the form of oil-filled cables) only in exceptional cases owing to their high cost in comparison with the equivalent overhead lines carrying the same electricity flow.