Low maintenance LED floodlights

The Melkøya plant in Norway is the world’s northernmost liquefied natural gas facility. The gas is transported from the Snøhvit gas field – the first offshore development in the Barents Sea.

When a new risk analysis indicated that even floodlights installed 25 metres up in the air can be exposed to hazardous gas and therefore should be explosion-proof, Statoil decided to replace all its floodlights at Melkøya with the new FX60 LED floodlight.

“The primary reason we chose the FX60 is that it allows us to significantly reduce maintenance costs. With regular floodlights, we incur high costs every time maintenance is needed, because we require a lift to access the luminaires,” Klaus Tingvold, principal engineer at Statoil, said.

The reason for the reduction in maintenance costs is that the FX60 has no flame path. A flame path triggers mandatory maintenance inspections every three years.