Norwegian firm Odfjell Oceanwind and international developer Source Galileo are exploring a pilot up to 75MW floating offshore wind farm at the site of an operational oil facility in the Norwegian Barents Sea.
The farm would be located on the site of Var Energi's Goliat platform, a floating production storage and offloading unit for oil production. The platform is currently electrified and is supplied with onshore power via a 75MW cable. This cable could also be used to export offshore wind to the grid, Var Energi said.
According to Odfjell, the project would comprise between three and five 15MW floating turbines, and could come online in 2026 at the earliest. It would use Odfjell's 'Deepsea Star,' a moored semi-submersible floating wind steel foundation that is currently undergoing basic design approval by Norway's DNV.
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