OKEA’s Q2 2025 quarterly report states that protection of the installed power cable from shore to Draugen was completed during the quarter, and the Q3 2025 quarterly report further notes that all subsea power cable activities for the Draugen Power from Shore project were successfully completed. Together these indicate that installation and protection of the subsea power cable from Straum onshore to the Draugen platform were completed by the end of Q3 2025.
Installation of the approximately 30-kilometre subsea power cable from the Draugen platform to the Njord A floating production platform in the Norwegian Sea commenced in early 2025, following the completion of the shore-to-Draugen cable installation in December 2024. The Draugen-to-Njord section is a dynamic cable designed to accommodate the movement of the floating Njord A platform, manufactured by NKT at its Karlskrona facility as part of the combined turnkey contract for both the Draugen and Njord electrification cable systems (123/145 kV HVAC). The cable was installed by NKT's cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria. OKEA's Q2 2025 quarterly report confirms that protection of the installed power cable was completed during Q2 2025, and the Q3 2025 quarterly report states that all subsea power cable activities for the Draugen Power from Shore project were successfully completed by the end of Q3 2025, indicating both the Draugen and Njord cable sections were installed and protected within this period. The cable installation is part of the broader Draugen-Njord power-from-shore electrification programme jointly developed by OKEA (Draugen operator) and Equinor (Njord operator), with OKEA responsible for the shore-to-Draugen infrastructure and Equinor responsible for the Draugen-to-Njord cable and Njord A platform modifications. The installation start date is estimated at Q1 2025 based on the shore-to-Draugen completion in December 2024 and the cable protection completion by Q2 2025, with the 30 km installation campaign likely spanning several months in early-mid 2025.
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I could not locate authoritative documentation in the provided sources describing a domestic Norwegian (NO–NO) landfall-to-landfall electricity interconnector explicitly named “Njord (Electrification).” The material supplied instead refers to an offshore electrification programme for the Njord A ...
In 2023, Norwegian authorities approved the project to electrify the OKEA-operated Draugen field and Equinor-operated Njord platforms with power from shore, enabling development of a shared cable system from the onshore grid via Draugen to Njord A and the Njord Bravo FSO and allowing a major reduction in CO₂ emissions from these installations.
Equinor Energy AS announced plans to convert the Njord A platform in the Norwegian Sea to electric operations using power from shore, in collaboration with OKEA ASA’s development of power infrastructure from shore to the Draugen field. Under the plan, OKEA will develop the power infrastructure from shore to Draugen, while Equinor will be responsible for the subsea power cable from Draugen to Njord and for the necessary modifications and upgrades on Njord A, with grid connection at the Straum transformer station in Åfjord municipality. The combined Draugen–Njord electrification is estimated to require about $737 million (NOK 7.3 billion) of investment, of which roughly $302 million (NOK 3 billion) relates to the Njord licence, and aims to start up in the first quarter of 2027, cutting more than 130,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions per year from Njord alone.
On 15 December 2022, NKT was awarded turnkey orders by Equinor Energy AS to supply a high-voltage AC power cable system for the Njord electrification project, alongside a separate system for OKEA ASA’s Draugen electrification project. The contract covers delivery of the subsea power cable system needed to supply electricity from shore to the offshore installations, marking the formal selection of NKT as cable supplier for Njord’s electrification scope in the Norwegian Sea.
Equinor and OKEA, together with the Njord and Draugen licence partners, took the investment decision to electrify the Njord A and Draugen platforms and submitted revised plans for development and operation to Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, with the total project investment estimated at about NOK 7.3 billion, of which just over NOK 3 billion is the Njord licence share. The electrification project, which will connect the fields to the onshore grid at Tensio’s Straum transformer station and provide up to 80 MW of power, is expected to cut CO2 emissions by 330,000 tonnes per year, including over 130,000 tonnes annually from Njord from 2027.
OKEA prepared and submitted an environmental impact assessment (Konsekvensutredning) for the electrification of the Draugen and Njord fields, detailing the planned cable connection from land via Straum transformer station, alternative development solutions, power demand scenarios, and expected emission reductions. The document, version E03 dated 29 October 2021, is part of a set of specialist reports delivered to NVE for the project "Elektrifisering av Draugen og Njord."
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