THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Hitachi Energy announced a major order from Samsung C&T Corporation to connect ADNOC’s offshore operations to the onshore power grid owned and operated by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA).

Hitachi Energy’s HVDC technology and digital control platform will enable the transfer of clean power from the mainland to power ADNOC’s offshore production operations, enabling a carbon footprint reduction of ADNOC’s offshore operations by more than 30%, the manufacturer said in a press release.

With a capacity of, the two HVDC links will be the first HVDC power-from-shore solution outside Norwegian waters.

The entire power-from-shore project will comprise two 3,200 MW HVDC power links, which will connect two clusters of offshore oil and gas production facilities to the mainland power grid, a distance of up to 140 kilometers (86 miles) for each cluster.

The HVDC technology will be supplied from Hitachi Energy’s global competence centers. Also included in the order are system studies, design and engineering, supply, installation supervision and commissioning. Hitachi Energy will support the customers with a long-term life-cycle service agreement leveraging digital technologies to ensure system availability and reliability over the HVDC links’ long operating life, the company said in a press release.

Hitachi Energy’s HVDC solution is a voltage source converter technology for many grid applications, including interconnecting national power grids, integrating offshore wind parks with mainland transmission systems, feeding more power into congested city centers, interconnecting asynchronous networks that operate at different frequencies, and power from shore.

Source: Hitachi Energy