Turbine contracts for Rolls-Royce

has signed contracts worth more than $64m to supply RB211-powered gas compression packages to Shell, ExxonMobil and Woodside Energy for use on offshore production platforms.

The units will be operating offshore Australia, Malaysia and Nigeria and will join existing Rolls-Royce industrial gas turbines already in service with these companies.

The largest contract, for three RB211-GT61 packages, from Woodside Energy of Australia, is for the continuing development of their North West Shelf venture, the country’s largest resource project.

Each of the three packages will provide 44,000 horsepower of compression power on the North Rankin platform to help increase the flow of gas to Australia’s largest onshore gas plant at Karratha, which already supplies about 65 per cent of Western Australia’s gas demand.

The three units will join another RB211 that has been in operational service on Woodside Energy’s Goodwyn platform, since 1991.