Re Contract

25 July 2012

                   ROLLS-ROYCE TO POWER HIGH TECH DRILLSHIPS

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced orders worth
over £70 million to supply large thrusters for offshore drilling vessels.

These latest orders, which include options for additional thrusters, are from a
variety of customers who are expanding their drillship fleets and are driven by
greater demand in oil and gas exploration in deep water and harsh conditions.

Rolls-Royce Senior Vice President Offshore, Helge Gjerde said: "Numerous
drillships with Rolls-Royce thrusters have been delivered in the past few
years, making Rolls-Royce the clear market leader for this type of propulsion.
We are very pleased to see that customers in this industry continue to have
confidence in our abilities to support their business with mission-critical
systems, products and services."

These high specification drillships operate in dynamic positioning (DP) mode,
using satellite technology to automatically maintain position without
anchoring. This places a heavy responsibility on thruster performance and
reliability. Highly efficient propulsion during transit moves to a drilling
site, and closely controlled position keeping when drilling operations are in
progress are key requirements of these giant thrusters.

Seadrill has specified Rolls-Royce thrusters again for three drillships to be
built by Samsung in Korea. Each vessel will be equipped with six azimuth
thrusters, each rated at 4,500kW. A similar thruster order is specified for a
drillship ordered by Pacific Drilling, while more powerful thrusters of the
same design have been ordered for an Ensco drillship, both to be built at the
same Samsung yard.

Rolls-Royce thrusters are also to be used on drillships previously contracted
in Korea by Rowan, Noble and Fred Olsen at Hyundai and by Attwood, Transocean
(Aker) and Vantage at Daewoo.

Notes to Editors:

1. Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for
use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in
global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy.

2. As a result of this strategy, Rolls-Royce has a broad customer base
comprising more than 500 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and
helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, more than 4,000 marine customers,
including 70 navies, and energy customers in more than 80 countries.

3. Annual underlying revenues were £11.3 billion in 2011, of which more than
half came from the provision of services. The firm and announced order book
stood at £62.2 billion at 31 December 2011, providing visibility of future
levels of activity.

4. Rolls-Royce employs over 40,000 people in offices, manufacturing and service
facilities in over 50 countries. Over 11,000 of these employees are engineers.

5. In 2011, Rolls-Royce invested £908 million on research and development, two
thirds of which had the objective of further improving the environmental
performance of its products, in particular reducing emissions.

6. Rolls-Royce supports a global network of 28 University Technology Centres,
which connect the company's engineers with the forefront of scientific
research.

7. The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and
to further developing employee skills.

8. The Marine business of Rolls-Royce employs 9,000 people in 35
countries with the main manufacturing centres being in the UK, the Nordic
countries, the United States and increasingly Asia.

9. Rolls-Royce is a world leader in marine solutions, providing
products, service and expertise to more than 30,000 vessels in the offshore,
merchant, naval surface and submarine markets. It designs ships and its product
range includes propulsion systems featuring diesel engines and gas turbines,
propellers, thrusters and water jets. Rolls-Royce also provides manoeuvring and
stabilising systems and deck machinery.

For further information, please contact:

Investors:  
                                                                 
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Rolls-Royce plc 
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Josh Rosenstock 
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Rolls-Royce plc      
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