PETER BROTHERHOOD DELIVERS AKER SMART 1 FPSO TURBINES

Specialist engineering company Peter Brotherhood Ltd has delivered three 5 MW steam turbine driven generator sets to Aker Floating Production of Norway.

The turbines will be installed on the top deck of the Aker Smart 1 FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel which will operate in the Indian Ocean and will be maintained by Aker Borgestad Operations AS.

Aker Smart 1 will be deployed in India’s MA-field which is located at water depths of 1,000 to 1,400 metres, some 60 kilometres offshore from eastern India.  The operator of the field is Reliance Industries Ltd.  Production start-up will take place in two phases: oil production is scheduled in the first half of 2008 and gas production towards the end of 2008.

The three steam turbine driven generator sets each consist of a turbine, gearbox and generator, all mounted on a common bedplate which incorporates the oil system and a separate water cooled condenser mounted directly below the turbine’s exhaust.

Aker Floating Production ASA chose Peter Brotherhood because of the company’s extensive experience in manufacturing steam turbine driven generator sets for installation on FPSO vessels. These sets have to incorporate features to enable them to operate reliably in a floating environment where they can be affected by, for example, the pitch and roll of a ship.

Peter Brotherhood’s managing director Stephen Fitzpatrick said: “This was an important order to secure as Aker Floating Production is planning to launch a number of Smart FPSOs over the coming years.  We have now installed 36 turbines on board 22 FPSO vessels which have a total power output of over 300 MWe.”

Peter Brotherhood has been designing and manufacturing steam turbine driven generator sets for FPSOs since 1981 and has installed turbines on vessels which are moored off the coast of West Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil and Australia and in the North Sea.

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