Gas platform inches step closer to its new lease on life as ‘one of a kind’ solar-wind powered facility for carbon storage in North Sea

Design of the P18-A platform, unmanned and equipped with solar panels and wind turbines; Credit: KCI Engineers

Progress has been made in the finalization of the design required to repurpose a former offshore gas platform into an unmanned installation equipped to run on solar and wind for permanent offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) storage in one of the depleted natural gas fields in the North Sea.