Offshore staff

LONDON – Rolls-Royce has won a $30-million order from Shell to supply two industrial RB211 gas turbines to boost gas output from the Malampaya deepwater natural gas project in the Philippines.

Each RB211 unit will produce 27 MW of power to drive gas compressors, enabling gas production to be boosted as natural pressure within the gas field reduces with extraction.

Shell has used Rolls-Royce technology as the mechanical driver for the project’s gas compression trains since start-up in 2001.

The contract was awarded under a global frame agreement, signed in 2007, between Rolls-Royce and Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. (SPEX) which operates the Malampaya project on behalf of joint venture partners Chevron Malampaya LLC and the Philippine National Oil Company Exploration Corporation (PNOC EC).

4/30/2012