Norway has actually accepted Equinor’s strategies to establish and also run a drifting wind ranch that will certainly supply power to 5 oil and also gas systems in the Norwegian North Sea.

The Hywind Tampen wind ranch will certainly include eleven 8MW drifting wind generators to supply roughly 35 percent of the yearly power need of Equinor’s Snorre and also Gullfaks systems, making them the very first worldwide to get power from a drifting overseas wind ranch.

The wind ranch will certainly lie around 140km off Norway in between the Snorre An and also B and also Gullfaks A, B and also C systems. Water deepness in the location varies from 260 to 300 meters.

By using wind power, Equinor states it anticipated to help in reducing CARBON DIOXIDE discharges by greater than 200,000 tonnes annually, representing yearly discharges from 100,000 personal automobiles.

“Hywind Tampen is a pioneering project and a central contribution to reducing emissions from Gullfaks and Snorre, and I am pleased that both ESA and Norwegian authorities have approved the project. We are experiencing very challenging times, and we are focusing on continuing our transition effort while attending to and developing the value on the Norwegian continental shelf and at the same time reducing the climate footprint from our operations,” states Arne Sigve Nylund, Equinor’s exec vice head of state for Development & & Production Norway.