Re Contract

15 September 2005

                  ROLLS-ROYCE AWARDED $82 MILLION GAS TURBINE                  
                        CONTRACT FOR NIGERIAN OIL FIELD                        

Rolls-Royce has won an $82 million order from Technip, on behalf of Total
Upstream Nigeria Limited (Total), for six RB211 industrial gas turbines to
operate in the Akpo oil & gas field offshore Nigeria.

With this order, Total has ordered 11 RB211 gas turbines for their operations
offshore Nigeria. A further seven RB211s are also in Nigerian service by other
operators.

Akpo is a gas and condensate (light crude) field, with water depths of between
1100 and 1700 metres, some 200km offshore from Port Harcourt.

The six RB211 gas turbine generator sets will provide 100MW of electrical power
needed to develop 22 oil and gas production wells, 20 water injection wells and
two gas injection wells in the field.

They will be housed on a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO)
vessel with a storage capacity of two million barrels. Soon after the FPSO
begins production in the latter part of 2008, it is expected to reach peak
output of 225,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Tom Curley, President of the energy business of Rolls-Royce, said: "Oil & gas
fields offshore West Africa represent one of the leading growth regions for
Rolls-Royce industrial gas turbines. This latest order reinforces our position
as a primary supplier of gas turbine power and compression packages to this
important, developing region."

Over the past five years, offshore West Africa oilfield operators have placed
orders for 26 RB211 gas turbine power generation and compression packages. Over
170 RB211 packages have been ordered for offshore service worldwide.

The RB211 generator sets for the Akpo project will be manufactured in
Liverpool, UK, and are scheduled for delivery to the FPSO's construction yard
in Korea between June and August 2006.

NOTES TO EDITORS

 1. The six FPSO-based RB211s will be installed in the vessel in two modules,
    each comprising three units. Four of the six will feature exhaust-mounted
    waste heat recovery units.
   
 2. The condensate production from Akpo will be loaded into tankers every 10
    days from a buoy about two kilometres from the FPSO. Gas will be piped
    150km to the Amenam/Kpono platforms from where it will be landed through an
    existing pipeline for use at the Bonny liquefied natural gas complex.
   
 3. Rolls-Royce has now received orders for 26 RB211s to operate offshore West
    Africa: 18 from Total and Exxon Mobil for use offshore Nigeria; 8 by
    operators offshore Angola.
   
 4. Recent contracts include two 40,000 horsepower RB211 gas compression packages 
    for the East Area fields, some 32km offshore Nigeria. These two units will 
    work alongside five RB211 units ordered in 2003 for the East Area additional 
    oil recovery project. An RB211 power generation package is also being supplied
    for phase two of the Amenam platform offshore Nigeria, supplementing four similar 
    units in gas compression and power generation duties on the nearby Amenam phase 
    one platform

 5. Rolls-Royce has a fleet of over 530 industrial gas turbines operating
    offshore in 32 countries. The first units entered service offshore
    Venezuela in 1969, offshore USA in 1970 and the North Sea in 1972.
   
 6. The total operating hours of Rolls-Royce industrial gas turbines worldwide
    is over 142 million.
   
For more information, please contact:

Gary Hyman
Head of Communications - Energy Business
Rolls-Royce
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Web www.rolls-royce.com

Richard Catling
Crest Communications (PR) Limited
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