China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has commissioned China’s first deepwater floating wind farm, located in the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea.

CNOOC said that the Haiyou Guanlan project was connected to the grid last weekend, providing electricity to offshore oil and gas production facilities in the area.

Located 136km from Wenchang in Hainan province, the floater with its 7.25MW