Northern Lights is developing the world’s first open-source CO2 transport and storage infrastructure. The company delivers CO2 transport and storage as a service, offering safe and permanent CO2 storage to industrial emitters. Northern Lights aims to enable the decarbonization of CO2-intensive industries. As a partner of Aker Solutions, Sofis has provided a variety of solutions to guarantee safe, efficient, and ergonomic manual valve operations for the Northern Lights development.

Safety is of paramount importance for offshore wind HVDC converter platforms. Critical systems such as the cooling system for the power electronics, play a pivotal role. Incorporating valve interlocks in the platform’s design offers a multitude of benefits to ensure the highest level of safety and reliability.

Adherence to established safety standards is crucial to mitigate hazards during hydrogen offloading. Valve interlocks act as physical barriers, preventing inadvertent or unauthorized access to critical valves during the refueling process. This significantly reduces the likelihood of operator error and the potential for dangerous situations.

Our engineers prevent unwanted project delays and hand-over problems, by ensuring correct installation and commissioning of your valve interlocks. They also provide support for you to effectively plan and execute your plant shutdowns and turnarounds, avoiding any unforeseen ad-hoc issues causing project delays or safety issues.

To optimize your valve operations, we provide various solutions and programs to help you limit operational risks and mitigate the effects of human error. Our asset management and training programs are aimed to prevent undesirable, costly, and potentially dangerous consequences. They contribute to the life extension of your assets, ensuring long-term operational efficiency, integrity, and continuity of your valve interlock systems.

Our solutions and program aim to improve human performance in all life cycle stages to limit the possibility of human error. Sofis helps you to protect your staff, assets, and the environment, ensure compliance with the law, and achieve continuous performance improvement for optimized safety and efficiency.