PetroChina lets compression contract for WEPP 3 line

PetroChina awarded Rolls-Royce a contract to provide three RB211 natural gas turbine compressor systems for its third West-East Pipeline Project (WEPP 3), bringing 15.5 billion cu m/year of gas from Shaanxi in western China to Beijing.

June 29, 2010

Christopher E. Smith
OGJ Pipeline Editor

HOUSTON, June 29 -- PetroChina awarded Rolls-Royce a contract to provide three RB211 natural gas turbine compressor systems for its third West-East Pipeline Project (WEPP 3), bringing 15.5 billion cu m/year of gas from Shaanxi in western China to Beijing.

The units will be installed at the pipeline’s first compressor station in Yulin, Shaanxi province. The 820-km pipeline will cross three provinces before terminating in Beijing. Gas transported will originate from supplies in Turkmenistan shipped via the Central Asia-WEPP 2 pipeline and from China’s Tarim basin via WEPP 1.

PetroChina expects to bring WEPP 2 into service late this year or in early 2011. The Chinese trunkline section covers 3,400 miles, connecting Xinjiang province to Guangzhou and Shanghai. The development also calls for 1,240 miles of branch lines. WEPP 2 will transport 30 billion cu m/year (OGJ, Feb. 15, 2010, p. 46).

This latest order brings to 28 the total number of units supplied by Rolls-Royce to PetroChina for pipeline service.

Contact Christopher E. Smith at [email protected].