Electric Drilling (E-drilling) and Production Power
Location:
West Texas
Fuel supply:
Natural gas pipeline
Turbine installation time:
2 day
Reliability:
99+% mechanical uptime to date
Requirements: Operator needed a solution to power multiple drilling rigs and all adjacent oil and gas production equipment utilizing a single gas turbine.
Solution: A 32MW GE TM-2500 gas turbine was provided. Power was distributed via the customer-owned power lines at 12470V for their production facilities.LCP provided a skid-mounted 600V step-down transformer for each drilling rig connected to the microgrid.