Lloyd’s Register gets design job for Norway's 88-MW floating wind park

Lloyd’s Register Group Limited today said it has won a contract to provide consultancy design services for the control rooms at the 88-MW Hywind Tampen floating wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea.

As part of the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) engineering services contract, Lloyd's Register will help with the integration into the existing onshore wind control room for Hywind Tampen, to be located together with an existing control room for Valemon, an unmanned offshore installation in the North Sea.

In addition, Lloyd's Register will provide human factor analysis for the new control room as well as existing control rooms for four platforms.

The contract was awarded by Wood Group, on behalf of Norwegian energy group Equinor ASA (NYSE:EQNR). Hywind Tampen will supply power to the Gullfaks and Snorre oil and gas fields in the northern North Sea. Equinor’s respective stakes in those fields currently amount to 51% and 33.3%, and its partners in the floating wind project are the holders of the remaining interests -- Petoro AS, OMV (Norge) AS, Idemitsu Petroleum Norge AS, Wintershall DEA Norge AS and Var Energi AS.

The Hywind Tampen floating wind farm will be built around 140 km from shore. The project was approved by Norway's Ministry of Petroleum and Industry in April. It will consist of 11 units of 8-MW turbines, which, together, will be able to supply enough power to meet about 35% of the annual demand of the five platforms Snorre A and B and Gullfaks A, B and C. Completion is scheduled for late 2022. The total cost of the project is estimated at almost NOK 5 billion (USD 524m/EUR 465m),

Lloyd's Register has been working on marine, maritime and oil and gas projects in the past, adding offshore renewable energy projects in the last 10 years.

(NOK 10 = USD 1.048./EUR 0.930)

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