World’s first drilling rig to operate a low-emission hybrid power plant using Siemens’ lithium-ion energy storage solution. Integration of BlueVault will reduce fuel consumption by 12 percent and CO2 emissions by 15 percent BlueVault.

Siemens advanced lithium-ion battery-based solution, will be installed on Northern Drilling Ltd.’s West Mira offshore drilling rig that will operate in the North Sea’s Nova Field, approximately 120 km northwest of Bergen. West Mira is a sixth-generation, ultra-deepwater semi-submersible designed by Moss Maritime and will be the world’s first modern drilling rig to operate a low-emission hybrid (diesel-electric) power plant using lithium-ion energy storage.