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Rolls-Royce will deliver to the Norwegian BB the first tugs with propulsion to gas
They will be employed to service of the groups Statoil and Gassco
January 13, 2012
The Norwegian Burksér og Berging AS (BB), company that work a fleet of tugs and ships support for the offshore field, has ordered to the Rolls-Royce group the supply of two tugs with propulsion to gas, that they will be first to the world endowed of this type of propeller. The new means, that they will be delivered at the end of the next year, will be employed to service of the groups Statoil and Gassco.
"This - it has emphasized the vice president of the division Systems of propulsion and marine engines of Rolls-Royce, Robert Løseth - is a step ahead for our engines to gas Bergen and for the advance systems of propulsion. The choice completed from our customer evidences the leader engine ratings of the field, the content consumption of fuel and methane emissions that Rolls-Royce can offer, that now they are applied to the tugs".
Besides the two engines, Rolls-Royce will equip everyone of the tugs of the Norwegian BB of systems of propulsion azimuth.
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The Norwegian Burksér og Berging AS (BB), company that work a fleet of tugs and ships support for the offshore field, has ordered to the Rolls-Royce group the supply of two tugs with propulsion to gas, that they will be first to the world endowed of this type of propeller. The new means, that they will be delivered at the end of the next year, will be employed to service of the groups Statoil and Gassco.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
