Patent ID: 8270793

Claim:
A power cable, or power umbilical, comprising: a number of electric cables for transfer of large amounts of electric power/energy; filler material in the form of stiff elongate plastic elements located at least partially around and between the number of electric cables, the number of electric cables and stiff elongate plastic elements being gathered in a twisted bundle by means of a laying operation; a protective sheath that encompasses the electric cables and the filler material; and at least one load carrying element at a predetermined location in the cross section of the power cable/umbilical, wherein the number of electric cables, the stiff elongate plastic elements and the at least one load carrying element, are alternately laid, i.e. by continuously alternating direction, in the entire or part of the longitudinal extension of the power cable/umbilical, to form a bundle, and the laid bundle is kept fixed substantially torsion stiff by the protective sheath.