Rolls-Royce has been awarded a USD 138M, five-year services contract by Petrobras to support its oil production activities offshore Brazil.
Rolls-Royce will supply Petrobras with advanced maintenance and repair services to support fifteen Rolls-Royce RB211-G62 industrial gas turbine power generation units that are installed on four Petrobras oil platforms operating in the petroleum-rich, pre-salt Campos Basin.
The four Petrobras platforms, which together can produce over 500,000 barrels of oil per day, or 25% of Brazil’s entire output, rely on nearly 375MW of Rolls-Royce-generated power to maintain a consistently high production output. The Long Term Service Agreement (LTSA) contract, which has a potential value of up to USD 220M over its five-year renewal period, helps ensure that the Rolls-Royce units continue to operate at peak performance levels of efficiency and reliability.
Over fifty Rolls-Royce engineers and technicians are working on the project, most based full-time on the four oil platforms. The Rolls-Royce Energy workshop at Macae in Brazil supports their work. Rolls-Royce will inaugurate a new, USD 100M-plus investment, purpose-built gas turbine package, assembly and test facility in 2014 at Santa Cruz in the state of Rio de Janeiro, further strengthening Rolls-Royce local, in-country manufacturing and services presence.
