EVENDALE, OH - GE Industrial AeroDerivatives (GE-IAD) has contracted with Kvaerner Energy, Oslo, Norway, to provide five LM1600 aeroderivative gas turbines. The units will be equipped with GE-IAD's Dry Low Emissions (DLE) combustion system, and will be used to drive Sulzer water injection pumps on Phillips Petroleum Company Norway's Eldfisk 2/7E water injection platform in the North Sea.

The LM1600s will be site rated at 13.7-megawatts, and will be fueled by natural gas. One of the LM1600s will be used as a spare. With the DLE system, NOx levels will be below 25 ppm.

The gas turbines will be manufactured by GE-IAD at its Lynn, MA plant. The units will be packaged by Kvaerner Energy at its Oslo facility. Delivery of the gas turbine packages will be staggered from May through August 1998. Commercial operation of the LM1600s on the Eldfisk platform is slated for January 2000.

Currently more than 170 LM gas turbines are used for mechanical drive service on offshore platforms.

This project marks the second order GE-IAD has received for DLE-equipped LM1600s. The first LM1600 DLE unit recently began compressor drive service at a pipeline station owned by Alberta Natural Gas Company, Ltd. in Elko, British Columbia.

The Phillips Eldfisk project is the first time Kvaerner Energy, a GE-IAD Original Equipment Manufacturer, will package GE-IAD's LM1600 gas turbines for industrial use. Kvaerner Energy also acts as a GE Marine Systems Supplier, and has packaged LM1600s for a variety of marine propulsion applications.

GE-IAD is part of GE Power Systems and is headquartered in Evendale, OH. GE-IAD is the world's largest designer, developer and manufacturer of aeroderivative gas turbines for a variety of power generation and gas compression applications.