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FEATURE FLOATING POWER BARGES

In Norway, ‘going greener’ has pushed bewildered politicians into supporting the electri? cation of oil platforms from land. That has helped jack-up power bills, as the raw, equivalent diesel power required by an offshore oil? eld can be equated to the power needs of a city. The solution, says a coalition of companies in Norway, is ? oating gas-? red power plant, or FGPP, that captures and injects carbon-dioxide into subsea reservoirs and can send power to shore.

tions,” Ronglan says. “There’s a discussion in Norway right

Floating Gas Plant now on power from shore to sites offshore, but this is an alter-

Yet, there’s much more to the idea’s potential than meets the eye. A Sevan SSP engineer Maritime Reporter spoke to says native and a better way of utilizing electricity and producing the concept is very scalable for shoreside power production if it locally and using it locally.”

Launched two years ago, the combined Ocean GeoLoop desired. Conceived by Erling Ronglan (who studied at Nor- carbon capture storage and utilization tech, or CCSU, and way’s answer to MIT, NTNU), the project’s heart is technol- the ? oating offshore or nearshore GPP attracted shareholder ogy from a “start-up” called Ocean GeoLoop, part of a greater alliance that includes Siemens Energy and others under the Chevron in September. Yet the plan — to power the platforms and, possibly shore — offers the chance to produce “blue H2”

Blaa Stroem umbrella. “The business model is to connect with (offshore or grid) and “blue power”. Hydrogen is central to an EU scheme to get largescale (but very modular) H2-electrolyzers produc- operators in order to provide offshore power to their installa-

Dual-use:

An engineer’s design of an

SSB GPP able to supply electricity to both offshore installations and onshore population centers while sequestering carbon-dioxide.

Illustration: Sevan SSB

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