Philips installed a technological solution to protect migratory birds on oil drilling rigs in the North Sea
Every year 60 million migratory birds pass over the North Sea. The vast majority arrive safely, but about 10 percent of them have difficulty reaching the shore due to weather problems as well as due to navigational errors resulting from the lighting of gas and oil pumping stations in the heart of the North Sea, which distracts Ma'ofen.
Philips is a member of the NAM company, which is the largest company in the Netherlands for the production of natural gas, with the aim of finding a solution to the unfortunate harm to migratory birds.
The researchers found that a certain range of the color spectrum of the lighting at the pumping stations - the red color area - is the one that particularly disturbs the migrating birds, much less the blue and green color range. On the other hand, blue-based lighting harms the safety conditions of the workers on the pumping stations. One of the reasons is that this range of colors reduces visual acuity, and also that the fire extinguishing facilities at the pumping stations are not clearly visible in the absence of red lighting.
The solution was to replace 380 light bulbs at pumping station number L15 near the coast of Holland, with special 36W TLD and 400W HPI light bulbs. The effect on the birds is currently being tested and at the end of the fall and the migration period south for the winter, the results will be received.
