Ormonde – Wind and Stranded Gas

26 June 2008 London Evening Meeting

Chairman Ian Gallett, SUT
Sponsored by ODE Ltd

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The Ormonde Project

Brian Inwood, ODE Ltd

Oil and gas reserves are in decline and the pressure is on to source energy from renewable sources. The Ormonde Project is a first of a kind hybrid wind and gas development, located in the Irish Sea, with planned start-up of first power export in the fourth quarter of 2010. It comprises a 150MW offshore wind farm which is bounded to the north and south by two gas subsea reservoirs. Gas from these two reservoirs will be used to fuel offshore gas turbines which feed power through the wind farm offshore substation to the grid connection onshore. By sharing the wind farm power export infrastructure, these 'marginal' gas reserves, previously considered economically unviable can be successfully exploited.