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BP OIL COMPANY TO SELECT ABB’S HVDC LIGHT TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPLY ELECTRIC POWER FROM NORWAY
25 March 2007 - ABB Automation Technologies
| BP is the second major oil company to select ABB’s HVDC Light technology to supply electric power from mainland Norway to an offshore oil and gas complex in the North Sea. The solution will reduce annual operating costs by millions of dollars and cut CO2 emissions by 300,000 tons a year. |
BP is the second major oil company to select ABB’s HVDC Light technology to supply electric power from mainland Norway to an offshore oil and gas complex in the North Sea. The solution will reduce annual operating costs by millions of dollars and cut CO2 emissions by 300,000 tons a year. The solution will enable BP to modernize its multi-platform Valhall complex in the North Sea and replace costly, CO2-emitting gas turbine generators with clean hydropower delivered via ABB’s pioneering HVDC Light (high voltage direct current) technology from the Norwegian mainland. Located 292 kilometers off the coast of Norway, Valhall is one of the farthest removed offshore platforms in the North Sea. The project is part of a redevelopment scheme to increase production at the 25-year-old complex and equip it for another 40 years of service. Improvements include a new production and hotel platform that require more electric power than is currently available. The choice facing BP was either to invest in more gas turbine generators or obtain the power directly from shore with ABB’s HVDC Light technology. HVDC Light was launched in 1997 and remains a power transmission technology unique to ABB.
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ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs around 105,000 people.
ABB has streamlined its divisional structure to focus on two core businesses: Power Technologies and Automation Technologies. The Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals division is slated for divestment. ABB Power Technologies serves electric, gas and water utilities as well as industrial and commercial customers, with a broad range of products, systems and services for power transmission, distribution and automation. ABB Automation Technologies blends a robust product and service portfolio with end-user expertise and global presence to deliver solutions for control, motion, protection, and plant integration across the full range of process and utility industries. In addition to ABB's automation activities directed at the oil and gas industries, ABB Lummus Global continues to design and supply production facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants. ABB's former Upstream business, divested in July 2004, is now part of Vetco International (www.vetco.com). |
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