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Chevron Awards Contract to GE Oil & Gas High-Tech
06 July 2011: GE Oil & Gas will supply the turbine-generator modules to Chevron floating production unit that will produce oil and gas from the Jack and St. Malo fields in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 280 miles south of New Orleans and at a water depth of approximately 7,000 ft.
Chevron’s initial development of the Jack and St. Malo fields will be comprised of three subsea centers tied back to a hub production facility with an initial capacity of 170,000 barrels of oil and 42.5 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
GE will provide three LM2500+G4 gas turbine generator modules, each mounted on a three-point support base plate, designed with marine corrosion-resistant materials to overcome footprint restrictions and withstand pitch, roll and acceleration forces anticipated for a floating production unit operating in deep waters. Shipment of the equipment is scheduled to start by December 2011, with commercial startup planned by early 2013.
Source: yourindustrynews