In a document submitted to British authorities, Danish utility Ørsted notes that oil supermajor BP is making efforts to block part of the construction of the Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm off the coast of England, which could potentially foil the entire project, writes Bloomberg News.

Both companies have secured rights to develop projects on a seabed area where Ørsted plans to install a wind farm using the ocean floor, while BP plans store CO₂ beneath it.

According to the document submitted by Ørsted, BP is trying to ”force” Ørsted to not set up offshore wind turbines in areas where the two projects overlap.

In a document submitted to the UK Planning Inspectorate in December of last year, BP claimed that the two projects are unable to coexist due to BP’s need to install wells, set up infrastructure and ensure access to the installations for helicopters.

The British oil outfit further noted that its project would make it possible to store 12 times as much CO₂ as energy production from Ørsted’s project would reduce.

The overlap constitutes 25 percent of the area that Ørsted has been awarded, entailing a 675MW reduction in capacity, writes Bloomberg News.

According to Ørsted, a reduction of such magnitude would render the project uncompetitive, and it would also mean that Ørsted’s project would be unable to win an auction to sell power at fixed prices to the UK government.

Total planned capacity for Hornsea 4 amounts to 2.6GW.

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