Rolls-Royce, a provider of gas turbines for global energy markets, was confirmed as the supplier of six mechanical drive industrial Trent Dry Low Emission (DLE) compression packages for the Qatar Dolphin Gas Project.
The agreement is valued at $107 million and forms a vital component of the approximately $3.5 billion gas initiative. The project features a 400 kilometer-plus sub-sea pipeline between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Rolls-Royce industrial Trent packages will drive natural gas compressors to provide front-end gas boosting for the underwater pipeline, supplying gas from Ras Laffan, Qatar, to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Each Trent package will drive a Dresser-Rand DATUM centrifugal gas compressor.
Shareholders in the gas project are the Government of Abu Dhabi with 51 percent, Total with 24.5 percent, and Occidental Petroleum with 24.5 percent. Initially two billion cubic feet per day of natural gas will be transported to the UAE. One of the largest energy-related projects currently undertaken in the Middle East, it is projected to produce and supply natural gas to the Emirates for the next 25 years, starting in 2006. — (menareport.com)
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