By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 2 -- Norway's Statoil ASA has let a $50 million contract to Dresser-Rand Group Inc. for compression equipment and drivers for semisubmersible production platforms to be installed in Gjoa oil and gas field 50 km off southwest Norway.
The contract scope covers the supply of three DATUM centrifugal compressor trains and a DATUM compressor package. The motor-driven trains are recompression units, while the gas turbine-driven train will be used for export compression.
The VECTRA power turbine-driven equipment train comes with 30 Mw for high-speed operations and includes a DLE (dry low emission) system and a waste heat recovery unit. The package is a single-lift design, with baseplate, noise enclosure, and all auxiliary systems to be supplied by Dresser-Rand.
The electric motor-driven compressor packages include transformers and frequency converters for the drive system. The packages include complete three-point baseplates, full enclosures for noise protection, and all auxiliary systems also to be supplied by Dresser-Rand.
All equipment will be full-load string tested at the Dresser-Rand facility in Le Havre, France.
In addition, Dresser-Rand will provide unit control panels for each equipment package based on Kongsberg Maritime hardware and software.
Gjoa, with reserves placed at 82 million bbl of oil and condensate and 40 billion cu m of gas, is scheduled for start-up in 2010. At that time, Gaz de France will succeed Statoil as operator.
Gas from the Gjoa platform will be transported to Scotland via the UK Flags pipeline, while the oil will be transported in the Troll II pipeline to Statoil's Mongstad refinery near Bergen, Norway.