Shoreside power supply to halve CO2 emissions
Siemens Energy will supply power to the Goliat floating offshore platform in the Barents Sea north of Norway via a 106 kilometre long sub-sea cable, a strategy it says will reduce CO2 emissions from the oil and gas operation by 50 percent.
The Goliat floating offshore platform for the production, storage and offloading of oil and gas will not, as is customary practice, be supplied with power generated by onboard gas turbines and generators but from the shore via a 106-kilometer-long subsea cable. This will result in a 50-percent reduction of CO2 emissions, Siemens writes in a press release.
Siemens signed the contract with Eni in November 2010, as BarentsObserver reported. The contract has a value of NOK 243 million (€29.9 million) and is the biggest Siemens has ever concluded on this field.
The company will supply a turnkey shoreside power supply system, which essentially comprises a substation located in Hammerfest in northern Norway, overhead transmission lines, buried cable and a state-of-the-art reactive-power compensation system.
Operator of the Goliat field is Eni Norge as (65%) together with partner Statoil (35%). The development of Goliat will be the first development of an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.
The shore side power supply to the platform is scheduled to come on line in 2012; the start of production in the Goliat field is planned for late 2013, the company said.
