Petrobras has given GE Oil & Gas a US$500 million-plus contract to supply turbocompression trains and other equipment for four floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs) in the Santos Basin off the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The company will supply the main turbomachinery equipment to the new FPSOs (P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77) to be placed over pre-salt fields in Cessão Onerosa region of the basin.

GE said its technology will generate primary energy for the FPSOs using gas turbines and advanced generators, moving gas through pipelines using compressors and re-injecting CO₂ and natural gas back to the well to enhance oil recovery.

The contract includes: 16 powergen turbogenerators composed of PGT25+ gas turbines and electric generators; eight turbocompression trains driven by LM2500+ gas turbines; and 32 electric-motor-driven compressors for gas main, export services and CO₂ re-injection.