French floating wind technology developer Ideol has inked a memorandum of understanding with Kerogen Capital, a private equity fund manager with a specialist track-record in the international petroleum sector, to develop first projects in the fast-emerging market for offshore wind-powered oil & gas platforms.

The tie-up aims to explore use of wind power units built with Ideol’s ‘damping pool’ platform instead of diesel- or gas-powered generators of oil & gas production platforms “to improve the operational, commercial and environmental sustainability” of offshore facilities, starting with late-life fields in the North Sea.