15th Sep 2005 13:13
15 September 2005 ROLLS-ROYCE AWARDED $82 MILLION GAS TURBINE CONTRACT FOR NIGERIAN OIL FIELD Rolls-Royce has won an $82 million order from Technip, on behalf of TotalUpstream Nigeria Limited (Total), for six RB211 industrial gas turbines tooperate in the Akpo oil & gas field offshore Nigeria.With this order, Total has ordered 11 RB211 gas turbines for their operationsoffshore Nigeria. A further seven RB211s are also in Nigerian service by otheroperators.Akpo is a gas and condensate (light crude) field, with water depths of between1100 and 1700 metres, some 200km offshore from Port Harcourt.The six RB211 gas turbine generator sets will provide 100MW of electrical powerneeded to develop 22 oil and gas production wells, 20 water injection wells andtwo gas injection wells in the field.They will be housed on a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO)vessel with a storage capacity of two million barrels. Soon after the FPSObegins production in the latter part of 2008, it is expected to reach peakoutput of 225,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.Tom Curley, President of the energy business of Rolls-Royce, said: "Oil & gasfields offshore West Africa represent one of the leading growth regions forRolls-Royce industrial gas turbines. This latest order reinforces our positionas a primary supplier of gas turbine power and compression packages to thisimportant, developing region."Over the past five years, offshore West Africa oilfield operators have placedorders for 26 RB211 gas turbine power generation and compression packages. Over170 RB211 packages have been ordered for offshore service worldwide.The RB211 generator sets for the Akpo project will be manufactured inLiverpool, UK, and are scheduled for delivery to the FPSO's construction yardin Korea between June and August 2006.NOTES TO EDITORS 1. The six FPSO-based RB211s will be installed in the vessel in two modules, each comprising three units. Four of the six will feature exhaust-mounted waste heat recovery units. 2. The condensate production from Akpo will be loaded into tankers every 10 days from a buoy about two kilometres from the FPSO. Gas will be piped 150km to the Amenam/Kpono platforms from where it will be landed through an existing pipeline for use at the Bonny liquefied natural gas complex. 3. Rolls-Royce has now received orders for 26 RB211s to operate offshore West Africa: 18 from Total and Exxon Mobil for use offshore Nigeria; 8 by operators offshore Angola. 4. Recent contracts include two 40,000 horsepower RB211 gas compression packages for the East Area fields, some 32km offshore Nigeria. These two units will work alongside five RB211 units ordered in 2003 for the East Area additional oil recovery project. An RB211 power generation package is also being supplied for phase two of the Amenam platform offshore Nigeria, supplementing four similar units in gas compression and power generation duties on the nearby Amenam phase one platform 5. Rolls-Royce has a fleet of over 530 industrial gas turbines operating offshore in 32 countries. The first units entered service offshore Venezuela in 1969, offshore USA in 1970 and the North Sea in 1972. 6. The total operating hours of Rolls-Royce industrial gas turbines worldwide is over 142 million. For more information, please contact:Gary HymanHead of Communications - Energy BusinessRolls-RoyceTel: 00 1 740 393 8888Email: [email protected] www.rolls-royce.comRichard CatlingCrest Communications (PR) LimitedTel: 00 44 24 7664 2428Email: [email protected] downloadable images of Rolls-Royce products visithttp://www.rolls-royce.com/media/gallery/energy/default.jspVisit http://www.thenewsmarket.com to download broadcast-standard video ororder a Beta SP tape.ENDROLLS-ROYCE GROUP PLCRelated Shares:
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