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happening Dynamic cable ready to connect floating to fixed wind turbine
Horisont Energi’s Barents Blue ammonia project gets new partners Norwegian energy firms Horisont Energi, Equinor and Vår Energi have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of Barents Blue, Europe’s first largescale blue ammonia production facility. The Barents Blue project is based on using natural gas from the Barents Sea to produce ammonia. It promises to provide Europe’s first large-scale clean ammonia production, located in Finnmark in Northern Norway. Once operational, the facility will have a production capacity of 3000 tonnes of ammonia per day. During the production process, the project will capture carbon and permanently store it in the Polaris reservoir. Horisont Energi has now teamed up with the two largest offshore oil and gas producers in the Barents Sea region. Equinor and Vår Energi will be among the natural gas suppliers to the Barents Blue ammonia plant.
China’s first offshore carbon capture project launched
Chinese oil and gas company CNOOC has launched the country’s first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the South China Sea, Reuters reports. The plan is for the project to store more than 1.46 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The CCS facilities will be located at the CNOOC’s Enping 15-1 oilfield in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the South China Sea. To be precise, the location is about 190 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong. The project is designed to reinject as much as 300,000 tonnes of CO2 per year into seabed reservoirs.
Orient Cable (NBO) has completed works on the dynamic subsea cable at China’s Yangxi Shapa III offshore wind project that will connect a floating wind turbine to a fixed unit for the first time. Commissioning tests of what is said to be the world’s first anti-typhoon floating wind turbine were completed on early September, representing the end of offshore work and that the unit is ready to connect to the 400 MW project. According to NBO, due to the extreme weather conditions in the South China Sea, the dynamic cable is necessary to meet the requirements operating under even 17-class typhoon conditions. This set a lot of challenges in terms of the whole engineering work, including tensile, anti-bending, anti-fatigue, as well as adopting distributed buoyancy and ballast to keep the configuration in shallow water, the company added. ‘‘We see this project as a typical case by working closely with the stakeholders engaged from the very beginning, to clear up challenges in different scenarios and interfaces and select the best solutions for this project. A long-standing partnership, as a driver and commitment of NBO, does help to make a great success,’’ said Zhou Zewei, chief engineer at NBO.
