Lloyd’s Register has secured a contract to provide design services on Equinor’s Hywind Tampen floating wind project.
LR will aid the integration of the existing onshore wind control room (OCR) that will be co-located with existing OCR for Valemon – a normally unmanned offshore installation in the North Sea.
Under the agreement, the LR team will also provide human factor analysis for the new OCR, as well as other existing ones operating four platforms.
The so-called human-machine interface engineering contract is part of an integrated scope awarded by Equinor to Wood.
Tristan Chapman, SVP Clean Energy and Innovation at Lloyd’s Register said: “The Hywind Tampen project addresses some of the industry’s biggest challenges – a key one being the integration of digitisation and decarbonisation.
“The work we are undertaking, providing design consultancy for the existing OCR and human factor analysis, will help support Equinor’s wider decarbonisation agenda. By developing unmanned solutions for power generation, the industry can start to make some real cost savings.”
The Hywind Tampen project forms part of Equinor’s climate ambitions to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its operated offshore fields and onshore plants in Norway by 70% by 2040 and to near zero by 2050.