Rolls-Royce bags Petrobras order

Rolls-Royce is to build four additional gas turbine power generation packages valued at $73 million for use on Petrobras' P-56 semi-sub.

This brings the number of Rolls-Royce gas turnbine generator sets for Petrobras offshore projects to 27 since 2001, with a total value of more than $300 million. The new order is for RB211-powered generating set packages for the $1.2 billion P-56 semi-submersible platform, which is part of the development of the Marlim Sul field, located off Rio de Janeiro in the Campos basin. Four RB211 dual-fuel generating sets will be installed in two modules and will provide complete electrical power for the P-56 platform. The platform will be located 124 kilometers off the coast and will eventually be connected to 22 wellheads at a depth of 1700 metres. Eleven of the wellheads will be oil and gas producers, with the remaining 11 used to inject water to increase production flow. The 46,500-ton platform is designed to operate for 25 years and will be capable for processing and treating 170,000 barrels of liquids and producing 100,000 barrels of oil, 6 million cubic metres of natural gas, and injecting 45,000 cubic metres per day of water into the reservoir. Rolls-Royce will package the gas turbine generating sets at its plant in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The RB211 gas turbine engines will be manufactured at the Rolls-Royce facility in Montreal, Canada.

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