Rolls-Royce offers a truly comprehensive range of power systems to the oil and gas industries. Our products assist in the many of the applications found in the chain leading from production to consumption. Both offshore and onshore, our matched gas turbine and generator or compressor packages and crude oil burning diesel pumping sets provide reliable and rugged performance in remote and hostile environments where minimal maintenance is important.

Rolls-Royce supplies aero-derivative gas turbines and reciprocating engines for gas compression and oil pumping duties, both on and offshore.

More than 1,600 Avon and RB211-driven gas turbines have been sold, and together have accumulated more than 60 million hours of operating experience. Over 1,000 Rolls-Royce 501 units, with more than 30 million hours of operating experience have also been installed in oil and gas-related applications.

To meet the challenges for a cleaner environment, low emission requirements have been brought to the forefront of many operators’ criteria when selecting new, or updating existing, equipment. Rolls-Royce has developed dry low emissions (DLE) systems for its 501, RB211 and Trent gas turbines.

The first aero-derivative gas turbine with DLE to enter service was an RB211 gas compression installation to Pacific Gas & Energy in the US. To date, more than 70 RB211 DLE units have been sold globally. The units have accumulated more than 900,000 hours with the lead unit attaining 29,000 hours.

Rolls-Royce also provides centrifugal compressors for the oil and gas marketplace. The company is a leader in the gas transmission market sector where most of these compressors are driven by aero-derivation gas turbines. To date, over 1,600 centrifugal compressors have been produced.

Continuous exploitation of the latest aero-engine technologies has enabled the low risk enhancement of the RB211 gas turbine. For mechanical drive and oil/gas related power generation applications, the RB211-6761 features an upgraded Rolls-Royce RB211 industrial gas generator and a RT61 power turbine. It is now available with a shaft output of 33.2MW and a thermal efficiency of over 40 per cent.

Major onshore installations include oil and gas pipelines in Canada, Saudi Arabia and Russia, while offshore RB211 units are in service in the North Sea, off the Indian coast, in the Middle East, off South America and Malaysia.

Rolls-Royce also provides complete En-Tronic control solutions for rotating and reciprocating equipment, gas pipelines and plant control requirements. With over four decades of broad application experience in both the oil and gas and electric power segments, En-Tronic products offer a complete array of automation and control systems for engines, turbines, compressors, motor-driven compressors, motor control centres, station and process control. Numerous installations world-wide currently operate using En-Tronic control systems, providing monitoring, annunciation, logging, safety shutdown, communications and other controls solutions.