October 12, 2010
Source: Living In Peru
GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a $32 million contract by PlusPetrol Peru Corporation S.A. to supply compression and reinjection upgrade equipment to boost the output of the Malvinas Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) processing plant, located 400 kilometers from Lima at the southern section of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, informed a GE press release today.
Under the contract, GE will upgrade two existing GE gas turbine modules with technology to reduce emissions. These two and three additional modules will be upgraded with technology to reduce outages and extend the life cycle of the equipment.
The equipment was manufactured in Florence and shipped to Peru last March. The use of trucks is prohibited in the environmentally sensitive region, therefore large equipment transport takes place by taking advantage of seasonal swelling of the Amazon and Urubamba Rivers.
The plant currently has a capacity of 450 MMcfd of gas and throughput of 220 MMcfd, informs the Oil and Gas Journal.