A plan by oil major Shell, Gasunie and Groningen Seaports to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea to produce green hydrogen should survive the coronavirus crisis unscathed due to its early development stage, the companies told Recharge.

Reassuring comments over the North Sea wind-to-hydrogen plan came as analysts warned that oil & gas firms in general could delay other energy transition projects, as they try to protect their core fossil business in the short to mid-term.