GE Oil & Gas and Norway-based Statoil Petroleum AS have signed two new, five-year frame agreements that call for GE to supply turbomachinery equipment as well as services to support Statoil’s installed fleet of GE turbomachinery. GE’s equipment will be deployed primarily for Statoil’s onshore and offshore projects in Norway, as well as for other global activities, between 2013 and 2018.

GE’s first equipment order under the new frame agreement is to supply key equipment for the Aasta Hansteen field in the North Sea, which includes the industry’s first offshore application of LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine technology for mechanical drive and the latest generation of GE’s SeaSmart Offshore Package Solution, featuring an LM2500 SG DLE aeroderivative gas turbine for power generation in a more compact, durable and lighter configuration.

This is the first installation of an LM6000 mechanical drive aeroderivative gas turbine specifically for offshore applications in the industry. In 2011, GE signed an agreement with Bechtel for the supply of 16 LM6000-PFs, 12 for mechanical drive uses and four to drive generators for Chevron’s Wheatstone Project in Australia. More than 800 LM6000 units are in operation with more than 20 million hours of service.

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