CNOOC links Wenchang offshore wind platform to China’s grid
Offshore staff
HONG KONG – CNOOC has connected its Wenchang deepsea floating wind demonstration project to the Chinese grid for power generation.
The project is located close to the Wenchang oil fields in the western part of the South China Sea, 136 km offshore in a water depth of 120 m.
The main production facility, the semisubmersible Haiyou Guanlan, is China's first deepsea floating wind power platform supplying power to offshore oil fields in a challenging environment, according to the company.
The platform, with an installed capacity of 7.25 MW, can produce up to 22 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to saving nearly 10 MMcm of natural gas and reducing CO2 emissions by 22,000 t annually, the company added.
05.22.2023
