Turbine order totals 19

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Rolls-Royce has been awarded $150m to deliver a further eight RB211 industrial gas turbines to TOTAL’s Nigerian offshore oil and gas fields.

has been awarded $150m (£105m) to deliver a further eight RB211 industrial gas turbines to

Nigerian offshore oil and gas fields.

These units, for a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Usan field and a fixed offshore platform in the Ofon field, bring the total number of RB211s ordered by TOTAL for offshore Nigeria to 19.

Six of the RB211 gas turbine packages will be electrical generating sets, three for each field, to provide up to 160MW of electrical power for the new installations. All of the packages will feature exhaust mounted waste heat recovery units.

The remaining two sets will be gas compression packages to export gas to another facility or to re-inject gas into the oil field to enhance oil recovery in the Usan field.

The new Usan oil field, 100km southeast of Bonny Island in water depths ranging from 750m to 850m, is scheduled to become operational in 2012, when production will be in the region of 180,000 barrels of oil per day.

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