According to the company, the Portovaya compression station is the head station of the Nord Stream pipeline and will have an installed compression capacity of 354MW. It will be built near Vyborg, north east of Saint Petersburg, on the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea.
Gazprom said that the Nord Stream gas pipeline is a new route for Russian gas exports to Europe. It will be approximately 1,200km long and run across the Baltic Sea from the Portovaya Bay to the German coast, near Greifswald.
The P-55 award from Petrobras includes a $78 million supply contract for four gas turbine-driven power generation units using Dresser-Rand’s advanced, modular Vectra 40G power turbines and a services contract of up to $22 million.
Again P-55 will be a semi-submersible platform with a production capacity of 180,000 barrels per day of oil. It will be installed in a water depth of 1,795m at the Roncador field in the Campos basin. It is scheduled to begin operations in early 2012.
Dresser-Rand is a supplier of rotating equipment services to the oil, gas, petrochemical, and process industries. The Company operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, India, and China, and claims to maintain a network of 33 service and support centers covering more than 140 countries.
