Relying on the expected growth of the oil and gas industry in Brazil and the influx of new rigs and floating production, storage and offloading, FPSO, in the Brazilian offshore market, British manufacturer, Rolls Royse is set to make a 60 million US dollars investment in a new plant to build energy modules for offshore rigs. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYou guys need a copy editor to check your headlines. Last time I checked, the name of the company was Rolls-Royce, not Rolls Royse.
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I bet the argies won’t be very happy, doing business with the enemy,
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And trading with a company that has connections with the Falkland’s,
shhhhh dont tell Argentina .lol
Energy modules,
Jun 02nd, 2011 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0all built by (?) Rolls Royce / for (?) Rolls Royce in the United States (why?),
used on Brasilian (?) rigs - but nowhere in the Mercopress article does it say what they are or what they do.
Am I supposed to guess the missing info?
I think you will find they are the things that keep the lights on and the oil and gas moving and stuff... probably gas turbines.. UK exports high tech... Arg exports soy... says it all really...
Jun 03rd, 2011 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks, Frank.
Jun 04th, 2011 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0My point was more about inadequate copy by Mercopress. The original article was a technical report so it is just laziness.
I thought all UK companys were banned from working within SA in relation to the oil indsutry?
Jun 04th, 2011 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who banned them?
Jun 04th, 2011 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the Botox Queen... in her dreams....
Jun 04th, 2011 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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