Petrovietnam delivers 33 offshore windfarm foundations to Orsted’s 920 MW project

State-owned Petrovietnam delivered 33 offshore windfarm foundations to Orsted on Sunday, serving the Danish offshore wind power developer’s 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b&4 project offshore Taiwan.

Petrovietnam and its technical arm Petrovietnam Technical Services Corp (PTSC) held a delivery ceremony at PTSC’s manufacturing yard in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on the day, with the participation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

PTSC and Orsted signed an agreement on manufacturing the facilities in May 2023. The Vietnamese side has met the delivery deadline.

PTSC mobilized over 100 sub-contractors and over 80,000 tons of steel for the production. Each item weighs about 2,300 tons and has a height of 85 meters.

The project is an indicator that Ba Ria-Vung Tau province can develop into a renewable energy hub in Vietnam, according to Petrovietnam.

At the event, PTSC also signed agreements on manufacturing and supplying offshore windfarm foundations to foreign partners in the Asia-Pacific region.

PM Chinh also attended a first-cut ceremony for offshore windfarm substations supplied to the Baltica 2 project. Baltica 2 is part of the 2.5 GW Baltica Offshore Wind Farm, jointly developed by Denmark’s Orsted and Poland’s Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE).

The project is located in the Baltic Sea, targeting operational date from 2027 for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 and 2030 for the 1 GW Baltica 3.

It marked the first time a Vietnamese firm has exported offshore windfarm substations to Europe.

Oil-gas activities

Regarding oil-gas activities, on the same day, Petrovietnam held a first-cut ceremony for the Block B central processing platform and a granting ceremony for the floating storage and offloading (FSO) contract for Lac Da Vang oilfield.

Block B central processing platform is a key component of Block B-O Mon gas-to-power project, a mega and long-delayed project of Vietnam with an investment of $12 billion.

The exploited gas, 433 kilometers off the coast of southern Vietnam, can reach 5.06 billion cubic meters a year and will be transported to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho for the 3,810-MW O Mon power complex, which comprises the O Mon 1, O Mon 2, O Mon 3, and O Mon 4 power plants.

The project has an annual designed capacity of 22 billion kWh. The O Mon 1 power plant is already operational, while the O Mon 2, 3 and 4 power facilities are set to begin operations in 2026, 2027, and 2028, respectively.

Lac Da Vang oilfield is about 120 kilometers offshore Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. The FSO for Lac Da Vang oilfield has a designed capacity of 500,000 barrels of crude oil and can enter operation in the second half of 2026.