Electrification of Offshore Oil & Gas Assets using Renewable Offshore Wind Energy

Motivation:

Project Neos is a pre-FEED study investigating the technical and commercial aspects of establishing an electrical connection between an offshore wind farm and an offshore oil and gas installation. One of the key deliverables is the public domain report summarising the study outputs prepared by a consortium of Ørsted, Neptune, and Goal7. This study was supported by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), which managed a £1 million decarbonisation competition for the electrification of offshore oil and gas installations (NSTA news). The motivations behind contributing to this project are:

• An alignment of the project ambitions with the Goal7 values to develop and implement energy solutions that work in balance with the world around us
• Support NSTA in achieving their decarbonisation targets by identifying the essential technical and commercial requirements of windfarm connection
• Enable a cross-industry collaboration of people and technology and develop approaches to coexistence
• Demonstrate concept feasibility to form a basis for future electrification projects

Our Approach:

Goal7's role on the project is as a partner in conjunction with Ørsted and Neptune, taking on a coordination and oversight role for the delivery of the project. Goal7's approach to deliver mainly covered:

• Funding application support from drafting to submission
• Leading the drafting of the public report submitted to the NSTA
• Project coordination support between Ørsted, Neptune and other external contractors
• Mapping the key messages
• Providing technical support with a multi-disciplinary team exploring feasible engineering solutions
• Influencing commercial decision-making process using cost model assessments
• Reviewing the environment and regulatory constraints for the concepts developed

Benefit and Impact:

The study kicked off as an example of a cross-industry partnership focusing on people and collaboration of skills to achieve the NSTA's decarbonisation goals. The consortium has demonstrated the value and importance of cross-industry collaboration with respect to offshore platform electrification and shared the outputs in the public domain report. The feasibility study evolved in scope and continued in partnership to form the conceptual basis of an offshore Integrated Energy Hub project which has the potential to enable electrification for future Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Power to X and validate a new route to market for the offshore wind energy sector. It was the clear intention of the consortium to create an industry-wide impact by disseminating information in different formats to a wide range of stakeholder groups.

• Public Report available at nstauthority.co.uk/news-publications/
• Goal7 presented with partners at the OEUK Electrification Conference 2022
• Goal7 presented with partners at the SPE Net Zero Conference available at SPE London Net Zero Presents: Electrification of Offshore Oil and Gas Production

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