Re Contract

30 December, 2008

                 ROLLS-ROYCE WINS COMPRESSOR CONTRACT FOR NEW                  
                   RUSSIAN-EUROPEAN NORD STREAM GAS PIPELINE                   

Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract from Gazkomplectimpex, a subsidiary of
Gazprom, the world's largest gas company, to supply eight industrial
aeroderivative gas turbines driving centrifugal compressors for the new 1,200km
Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.

The gas turbines at the Portovaya gas compressor station will provide front-end
gas boosting for the underwater section of the Nord Stream pipeline that will
run beneath the Baltic Sea, from Portavaya Bay near Vyborg to the German coast
near Greiswald.

Tom Curley, President of the Rolls-Royce Energy business, said: "We are pleased
to have been selected to supply the gas compression equipment for this
important pipeline project."

The first compression packages are expected to be shipped in May 2010, with
additional sets being delivered during that year.

The contract is another major development for Rolls-Royce in Russia this year.
In June the Group opened a new office in St. Petersburg to further support
activity within the growing Russian marine market. Earlier this month, the
first Aeroflot Airbus A330 powered by the Rolls-Royce Trent 700 entered
service.

Notes to editors

  * Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use
    on land, at sea and in the air, has established a strong position in global
    markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy. It has
    energy customers in 120 countries.
   
  * The Group is supplying engines for Russian airlines, helicopters and
    business jets; industrial gas turbine and piston engines for gas pumping
    and power generation.
   
  * Rolls-Royce has been supplying energy equipment to Russia since the late
    1970s, when 42 Avons, of which 29 are still in operation, were installed on
    the Chelyabinsk gas pipeline in Siberia.
   
  * Today, Rolls-Royce is providing two RB211 gas turbine power generation
    packages and associated waste heat recovery units for offshore power
    generation for Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy),
    operator of the Sakhalin II - world's biggest integrated oil and gas
    project on Sakhalin Island. Three 501 power generating sets have been sold
    to Conoco-Phillips for the Polar Lights project in Siberia.
   
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