Chinese Oil Giant Launches World-First 16MW Floating Wind Turbine
CNOOC says the platform will generate 54 million kilowatt-hours a year and cut fuel oil use and carbon dioxide emissions at the Lufeng Oilfield.
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Wind Turbine Among New Structures in Taiwan’s EEZ
Executive Summary: In June 2026, China National Offshore Oil Corporation placed a 16MW floating wind turbine in Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), approximately 50 miles (21.665646, 116.273408) from Taiwan-controlled Pratas Island. The PRC now has placed over 30 permanent structures across disputed waters in the Indo-Pacific as part of an irregular warfare strategy to normalize its persistent presence and extraterritorial claims. These per…
PECHINO (CHINA) (XINHUA/ITALPRESS) The first 16-megawatt Chinese floating wind platform, developed independently and equipped with a TLP system, called "Haiyou Anlan" has been connected to the electricity grid of the Lufeng oil field and is providing directly green electricity, as announced today by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
World's first 16-MW tension-leg floating wind platform enters operation
The world's first 16-megawatt tension-leg floating wind platform, Haiyou Anlan, started operation on Thursday after connecting to the power grid of the Lufeng oilfield in the South China Sea, according to the operator China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
Chinese Oil Giant Launches World-First 16MW Floating Wind Turbine
State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) on Thursday announced the start of operations of the world's first 16-megawatt tension-leg platform (TLP) floating wind power platform, which began supplying power to an offshore oilfield. CNOOC, one of the biggest oil producers in China and a specialist in offshore technology, connected the Haiyou Anlan floating wind power platform to the Lufeng Oilfield grid via a 4.3-kilometer-long (…
A single marine turbine can give electricity to about 96,000 homes a year. That figure helps to understand the scale of the last step of the sea wind, which no longer competes to install more machines, but to squeeze each point with equipment of a size that a few years ago seemed reserved to the fairground renders. Now that discussion has its own name. Mingyang Smart Energy has put into operation a 20 megawatt marine wind turbine that is already…
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