Glamox's Smart Lighting Contracts for Hi-Tech North Sea Oil & Gas Platforms

Published Nov 30, 2024 12:34 PM by The Maritime Executive

 

[By: Glamox]

Glamox, one of the world’s leading lighting companies, today announced contracts to provide around 5,000 energy-efficient marine LED lights for new oil and gas platforms being built for the Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris developments in the North Sea. The contracts include around 4,000 connected lights for remotely operated production platforms in the Yggdrasil area, which Glamox believes to be the world’s first offshore platforms to use smart, remotely controlled interior and exterior explosion-proof lighting.

Yggdrasil is the biggest ongoing development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, located between Alvheim and Oseberg in the North Sea. It comprises the Hugin, Fulla, and Munin licence groups, and its oil and gas resources are estimated at around 650 million barrels of oil equivalent. Aker BP is the operator with Equinor and Orlen Upstream Norway as licence partners. Production is due to start in 2027.

Glamox received a contract from Aker Solutions, a partner in the Fixed Facilities Alliance, to provide a lighting package for the interior and exterior of the area centre Hugin A processing platform, which includes living quarters. Hugin A is planned to be periodically unmanned after some years of production. Most of the interior and exterior luminaires, including floodlights, are connected so that they can be switched on and off and dimmed locally or remotely using a light management system. Connected Glamox luminaires and floodlights will also be provided for Hugin B, a normally unmanned wellhead platform. Under a separate contract with Aibel, Glamox will provide the same smart lighting for the Munin unmanned production platform in the northern part of the Yggdrasil area.

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