Harnessing Strong Winds with The Deepsea Star™ in the North Atlantic
By Andrés Escalante Feb 23, 2024
Categories: Knowledge, Windpower, Floatingwind
Published in Offshore Magazine: Tax incentives as a catalyst for floating offshore wind de-carbonisation projects
By Kenneth Fossøy Nov 15, 2023
The great paradox in de-carbonisation of oil and gas with floating wind
- E&P companies have highly attractive tax incentives available to invest in such projects, but capital is constantly diverted to higher yielding E&P projects.- Renewable energy companies want to invest in these types of projects but do not have access to the same attractive tax incentives that are available to E&P companies.
Categories: Knowledge
Odfjell Oceanwind bringing floating offshore wind power to an industrial scale
By Odfjell Oceanwind Jun 21, 2023
Categories: Knowledge, Windpower, Floatingwind
Is bigger really better? Will floating offshore wind work with 15MW turbines and larger?
Categories: Knowledge, Windpower, Floatingwind
Tax incentives as a catalyst for floating offshore wind de-carbonisation projects?
By Kenneth Fossøy Mar 16, 2023
- UK and Norway have set ambitious targets for reducing emissions from their oil and gas activities
- Both nations desire to develop their respective industries into global leaders in floating wind
- Floating wind is a de-carbonisation solution that could deliver on the emission reduction targets
- Tax incentives could be an effective fiscal tool to incentivise de-carbonisation projects
Categories: Knowledge
With advancements in technology and engineering, and not least political interest, there are now a variety of different floating wind technologies being promoted, each with its own unique design and approach to capturing wind energy. These range from simple floating platforms attached to the seabed, to innovative designs such as semi-submersible and spar-buoy concepts. However, few if any of these designs have so far been proven in full scale for large wind turbine generators. Many of them only exist as computer rendered images at an early stage of development. The designs that have come furthest have begun to involve the classification societies.
Categories: Knowledge
- Oil and gas fields can to a large extent be electrified without power from shore
- Significant emission reductions can be realised with impact already in 2024
- This can lay the foundation for a large export industry based on offshore floating wind for Norway
Categories: Knowledge
We cannot wake up in 2029 and decide to slash emissions by 50% by 2030
By Kenneth Fossøy Nov 4, 2021
- The UK and Norway have set ambitious emission reduction targets for 2030
- Offshore floating wind has been identified as the key tool to de-carbonise the oil and gas industry in both countries
- Policymakers must enable the floating offshore wind industry to deliver on these targets
Categories: Knowledge
- The oil and gas industry in Norway has set an objective to reduce its emissions by 50% by 2030
- Halving the emissions from oil and gas installations means having to shift their power generation systems from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Odfjell Oceanwind’s Mobile Offshore Wind Units (MOWUs) and the WindGrid™ hybrid system allows operators to reduce CO2-emission by up to 70% compared to power generation from gas turbines only
- The WindGrid™ system is developed based on the learnings from the hybridisation and de-carbonisation of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs
Categories: Knowledge
What is required to accelerate de-carbonisation of the oil and gas industry?
By Kenneth Fossøy Oct 5, 2021
- A fit for purpose, predictable commercial framework for de-carbonisation is necessary to accelerate investment decisions and to deliver on the oil and gas industry’s de-carbonisation goals.
- The legal framework needs to be up to date in order to not slow down the green shift.
- Mobile offshore wind can be an efficient de-carbonisation solution for oil and gas.
Categories: Knowledge