GE Oil & Gas has announced that it has been selected as the primary supplier of compression equipment for the western section of China’s second West-to-East Gas Pipeline. GE has been awarded bids by PetroChina worth over $600 million.
According to the company, the second West-to-East pipeline will be part of the ongoing natural gas pipeline infrastructure in China that, when completed over the course of the next five to six years, will be approximately 20,000km.
Furthermore, the second pipeline is 8,700km in length and it will travel through 13 provinces and autonomous regions in China, said the company.
GE said that the second West-to-East project features pipes with 48-inch diameters. When completed, it will add 30 billion cubic meters of capacity of natural gas transmission per year, enabling 400 million people along the route to access natural gas. This will bring China’s primary energy consumption rate of natural gas to 5 percent, up from 3.5 percent, claims the company
Claudi Santiago, president and CEO of GE Oil & Gas, said: This underscores GE’s role as a major supplier of pipeline compression technology for this vital region of the world.
Inclusive of the western section of West-to-East Gas Pipeline, since 2005, we have supplied nearly 60 turbocompressor trains for pipeline infrastructure projects across Asia.
