Modified Jet Engine Application for Industrial Drives in the Libyan Desert

Gas turbines utilizing modified aircraft jet engines are successfully providing shaft power for three vital services in oil production operations in the Libyan Sahara Desert. Each of three trains of high-pressure compressors in gas injection service is powered by twin jet engines exhausting to a double-flow double-ended expansion turbine. Packaged single jet engine/expander combinations are the drivers for two low-pressure gas compressor trains in the LPG plants and for three electric generators. The remote location placed heavy emphasis on reliability and ease of maintenance in the selection of this equipment. This machinery has demonstrated its ability to perform satisfactorily under the punishing conditions required by these operations.