Green offshore wind power unit coming up

China National Offshore Oil Corp, which is building the country’s first deep-sea floating wind power turbine platform, said the platform was moved from Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong province, on Sunday, for installation in an offshore oil field 136 kilometers from Wenchang, Hainan province. With an installed capacity of 7.25 megawatts, it is expected to generate 22 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year that will serve surrounding gas and oil extraction facilities, saving nearly 10 million cubic meters of natural gas consumption and reducing 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.