Aberdeen loses floating wind crown as Norway opens world’s largest project
Aberdeen’s floating wind crown has been passed to Norway today as the world’s largest project, Hywind Tampen, officially opens.
Aberdeen’s floating wind crown has been passed to Norway today as the world’s largest project, Hywind Tampen, officially opens.
Green energy is now flowing from the Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm to a second oil and gas field.
Mammoet has shared footage of its efforts to support assembly of Equinor’s Hywind Tampen project, currently the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm.
Research firm Westwood Global Energy Group has delivered its forecasts for the offshore wind market in the coming year.
Equinor has pressed pause on the installation of the final few turbines for the Hywind Tampen project, a floating wind boss at the company has confirmed.
Six contracts have been awarded to five shipowners worth a total estimated value of over £210 million by Norwegian energy group Equinor (OSLO:EQNR).
Equinor is close to first power from Hywind Tampen, the world’s first floating wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms.
Aberdeen-headquartered Wood has hailed its $230 million business on the other side of the North Sea.
Oil and gas accounts for 25% of CO2 emissions from Norway. Quite simply, if the industry doesn’t step up then the country cannot meet its climate targets.
Equinor will only install seven of the 11 floating wind turbines planned for its Hywind Tampen project this year, as supply chain issues force commissioning to be pushed back.
The first of eleven turbines has now arrived at Equinor’s Hywind Tampen project off Norway, as installation begins in earnest.
The upcoming INTOG offshore wind round is among a raft of “different opportunities” Equinor (OSLO: EQNR) is chasing in Scotland.
The first of 11 turbines bound for Equinor's Hywind Tampen floating wind project in the Norwegian North Sea is now standing tall, ahead of installation later this year.
A floating offshore wind farm could be used to supply power to Equinor’s 300 million barrel Rosebank field.
Equinor has launched a study to better understand how fishers can safely operate around and within floating offshore wind farms.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor is the latest company to confirm its involvement in Scotland’s offshore wind leasing round.
CNOOC has teased plans to electrify its North Sea platforms through floating wind and “build a new energy business” in the UK.
Stage one of construction of the Hywind Tampen concrete foundations was completed this week at Aker Solutions’ yard in Stord, Norway.
The scale of the challenges posed by the energy transition make tackling it a daunting prospect.
A boss at Equinor has said the firm is hopeful of bringing floating offshore wind costs in line with those of bottom-fixed by the end of the decade.
Construction on what will be the world’s first floating offshore wind farm to power offshore oil and gas platforms has got underway.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has received the go-ahead for its plans to build a floating wind farm able to power oil and gas installations in the Northern North Sea.
The UK needs to see floating wind projects power North Sea oil and gas installations “as soon as possible”, according to Scotland’s energy minister.
Aberdeen-headquartered firm Wood has agreed a multi-million pound deal with Equinor to support its plans to power North Sea oil and gas platforms with offshore wind.
Equinor made a final decision to invest in floating wind turbines to power offshore oil platforms off Norway after the government agreed to subsidize a large part of the cost.