Power systems for China's WEPP

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Rolls-Royce has won two additional contracts from PetroChina for power systems to be installed on the 4000km-long West to East Gas Pipeline Project in China.

Rolls-Royce, a global power systems company, has won two additional major contracts from PetroChina for power systems to be installed on the West to East Gas Pipeline Project (WEPP).

The contracts include an extension of Rolls-Royce's involvement in the initial WEPP Line 1 and the western section of Line 2: a second west-to-east pipeline currently under construction. The total value of the orders exceeds $120m (£73m).

Crossing 10 Chinese provinces from the West Gobi desert to Shanghai in the east, the 4,000km line has a capacity of 17 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year.

Three RB211-powered gas compressor packages and a single motor-driven compressor have been ordered for Line 1 of the WEPP pipeline to increase installed horsepower at stations along the pipeline.

In addition, six RB211 compressor packages have been ordered for the 2,450km western section of Line 2, which is being constructed to transport gas from the Chinese border with Kazakhstan in the west to Zhongwei, the intersection point between the regions of Ningxia, Gansu and Inner Mongolia.

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