Equinor, Partners Study Offshore Wind Option to Power Oil and Gas Fields
June 17 2022 - 4:30AM
Dow Jones News
By Dominic Chopping
Norwegian energy group Equinor ASA said Friday that with its
Troll-and-Oseberg field partners Petoro, TotalEnergies SE, Shell
PLC and ConocoPhillips, it is studying options for building a
floating offshore wind farm in the North Sea, off Norway.
With an installed capacity of about 1 gigawatt and annual
production of around 4.3 terrawatt hours, the Trollvind project
could provide much of the electricity needed to run the Troll and
Oseberg offshore fields through an onshore connection point, it
said.
Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, already serves several of
these installations with power and needs more input to its
electricity grid, it added.
The plan is that the partners will buy as much energy as the
wind farm can produce.
The partners are initiating feasibility studies aimed at an
investment decision during 2023, with startup potentially in
2027.
Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com
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