Shell opens world’s first wind-powered gas field

Platform powered by renewable energy produces no carbon emissions

LONDON – The world’s first offshore gas field powered entirely by renewable energy has started up in the UK North Sea, project owners Shell and ExxonMobil said on Wednesday.

The Cutter project in the southern North Sea uses a platform powered by wind and solar energy that produce zero carbon dioxide emissions, the firms said in a statement.

Cutter cost $142.9 million to develop.

“This development is a real example of innovative thinking, transferring the latest generation of renewable technology into the existing oil and gas industry,” Britain’s Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said in the statement.

Reuters