A segment of the Maghreb-to-Europe natural-gas pipeline will employ gas-turbine compression sets supplied by an Anglo-U.S. company. And two other projects - in Canada and the North Sea - have chosen the same equipment.
The sets are manufactured by Cooper Rolls, a joint marketing company of Britain's Rolls-Royce aero engine and industrial group and Cooper Industries, Houston.
MUM OW
Four Coberra 6000 RB211 turbine gas-compression sets for use at pipeline stations at Frontera and Estrecho, Morocco, are among seven ordered in December 1993 at a total cost of more than 40 million.
The Europe Maghreb pipeline company's first order for Coberra turbine sets includes site work. Ranging in power from 10 to 30 mw, Coberra gas turbines have more than 79 million hr of operating experience, with more than 535 systems installed or on order worldwide, says Cooper Rolls.
Installed in pairs at the two Moroccan pipeline stations, the turbines will each drive a centrifugal gas compressor. They are scheduled for delivery in third quarter 1994.
CANADA; FOURTH FIELD
The other three gas turbines have been bought for service in Canada and offshore power generation in the North Sea oil and gas fields.
For transmission of Canadian gas for export, the Foothills Pipe Line Co. has ordered a Coberra 6000 RB211 gas turbine, driving a Cooper-Bessemer compressor, for its Monchy 394 station in Saskatchewan. Delivery is due in the first quarter.
In the North Sea, British Petroleum has ordered two Coberra 2000 Avon gas turbines for power generation on its new innovative "jack up" platform being used in the development of the Forth field.
They will also be installed with waste-heat recover units.
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