CNOOC, Flotation flesh out plans to power Buzzard with floating wind

CNOOC, Flotation flesh out plans to power Buzzard with floating wind

New proposals would see the two develop the Green Volt offshore wind farm – the world’s largest floating wind array – to provide power to the Buzzard field and the National Grid.

Floating wind company Flotation Energy and oil and gas operator CNOOC Petroleum Europe have formed a new joint venture company, Green Volt Offshore Windfarm Ltd, to develop the plans.

Proposals outlined in a 15 November Scoping Report would see up to 30 floating turbines anchored at a brownfield site, previously host to the Ettrick and Blackbird oil field, 46 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast.