Rolls-Royce wins gas turbine contract

Rolls-Royce has won an order from Technip, on behalf of Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, for six RB211 industrial gas turbines to operate in the Akpo oil & gas field offshore Nigeria. With this order, Total has ordered 11 RB211 gas turbines for its operations offshore Nigeria. A further seven RB211s are also in Nigerian service by other operators.

The six RB211 gas turbine generator sets will provide 100MW of electrical power and will be housed on an FPSO vessel with a storage capacity of two million barrels. Soon after the FPSO begins production in the latter part of 2008, it is expected to reach peak output of 225,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The RB211 generator sets for the Akpo project will be manufactured in Liverpool and are scheduled for delivery to the FPSO?s construction yard in Korea between June and August 2006.