Offshore Wind Power Limited (OWPL) – a consortium consisting of TotalEnergies, RIDG and Corio – has awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to Danish architecture, engineering and consulting company Ramboll for its 2GW West of Orkney wind farm project, located around 30km from Orkney’s western shoreline and 25km from Sutherland’s northern coast.
With the net zero transition looming ever closer and the eyes of the world turning to the UK ahead of COP 26, the time is now to put in place an integrated, detailed energy strategy. The long-awaited Energy White Paper published by the Government late last year gave impetus to many priority actions, but momentum has to continue to build to answer the urgent questions and detailed aspects to delivering these bold visions in the run-up to the COP.
It is estimated that there are around 201 small pools containing more than 1 billion barrel of oil equivalent in the North Sea. These pools may be marginal, but they have the capacity to stimulate the much-needed economic recovery of the UKCS.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate wants unmanned wellhead platforms to be considered more often as an alternative to subsea tie-back in connection with development decisions.