Rolls-Royce
has won an $82 million order from Technip, on behalf of Total Upstream Nigeria (Total), for six RB211 industrial gas turbines to operate in the Akpo oil & gas field offshore Nigeria.
Akpo is a gas and condensate (light crude) field, with water depths of between 1100 and 1700 metres, some 200km offshore from Port Harcourt.
The six RB211 gas turbine generator sets will provide 100MW of electrical power needed to develop 22 oil and gas production wells, 20 water injection wells and two 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 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, UK, and are scheduled for delivery to the FPSO’s construction yard in Korea between June and August 2006.
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I'd like to know where these are operating in the UK. The report is notably light on this. I wonder why?