Rolls-Royce wins $175m Kazakhstan gas pipeline contract

UK-based power systems provider Rolls-Royce has won a $175m contract from Asia Gas Pipeline (AGP) to supply equipment and related services to power the flow of natural gas through Line C gas pipeline in Kazakhstan.

The pipeline is a part of the vast 1,833km long Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline network.

AGP, a joint venture between KazMunaiGaz and CNPC, will receive 12 RB211 gas-turbine-driven pipeline compressor units from Rolls-Royce. The units will operate at four compressor stations along the 1,115km Line C Pipeline.

AGP general director Beimbet Shayakhmetov said that the pipeline will help to meet the domestic energy needs of Kazakhstan and to stabilise energy consumption in China with cleaner natural gas.

"Given the huge scale and tight construction schedule of this project we need on-time delivery of reliable and efficient technology," Shayakhmetov added.

Up to 55 billion cubic metres of gas annually (bcm/a) will be transported by the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline network from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China, when it reaches full operating capacity in 2016.

Kazakhstan’s Line C Pipeline will contribute up to 25bcm/a of the total capacity, including the potential to supply gas to the Republic of Kazakhstan domestically.

The equipment will be manufactured and packaged at Rolls-Royce’s energy facilities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Mount Vernon, Ohio, US.

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Image: Rolls-Royce will supply 12 RB211 gas turbine driven pipeline compressor units to AGP. Photo: courtesy of Rolls-Royce plc 2012.