GE Oil & Gas compressor trains for Mexican pipelines
Posted: 13 December 2003
Following the completion of equipment reliability tests, GE Oil
& Gas recently supplied six gas turbine-driven turbo compressor
trains for two new compression stations on the San Fernando Pipeline
Project in northern Mexico.
GE received a contract from Techint to provide three compressor
trains for each of the two pipeline compression stations, El Caracol
and Los Indios. Techint was the engineering, procurement and construction
(EPC) contractor for the project. The natural gas pipeline, located
in Mexico's Tamaulipas State, is owned and operated by Gasoductos
de Tamaulipas, a special purpose company formed by Pemex Gas y Petroquimica
Basica of Mexico and El Paso Energy of the United States.
Each of the six compressor trains includes a PCL 502 centrifugal
compressor driven by a GE 10/2 gas turbine with an ISO rating of
15,675 horsepower. The supply contract also included related auxiliary
systems, design and engineering, fabrication, testing, delivery
and site supervision of the equipment installation.
The gas turbines were manufactured by GE Oil & Gas in Florence,
Italy. GE Packaged Power Odessa and A-C Compressor, both U.S.-based
units of GE Oil & Gas, handled the packaging of the units and
the supply of the centrifugal compressors.
The El Caracol station will have an output of 1,013 million standard
cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of natural gas at 1,050 PSIA (discharge
pressure), while the Los Indios station output will be 1,500 MMSCFD
at 1,025 PSIA.
"This project further confirms the GE 10 gas turbine as an
effective solution in the 10-megawatt range for gas transportation,"
said Claudi Santiago, president of GE Oil & Gas. "GE Oil
& Gas has demonstrated its capability to serve its customers
in Mexico and all of Latin America, providing full local support
and service capability."
Pemex Gas y Petroquimica Basica is a unit of Pemex, Mexico's state-owned
oil and gas company, and is responsible for all natural gas, LP
and petrochemical projects in Mexico.
El Paso Energy is a leading provider of natural gas services and
the largest pipeline company in North America. The company has core
businesses in pipelines, production and midstream services.
Techint is a long-time customer of GE Oil & Gas. The Techint
Group of Companies operates as a global network with a major presence
in Argentina, Italy, Mexico and the United States. During more than
50 years of activity, the Techint companies have operated in five
principal areas: the steel industry, infrastructure projects, industrial
plants and processes, the energy and power fields, and more recently
the public services sector.
GE Oil & Gas, a unit of GE Power Systems, is headquartered
in Florence, Italy, the home of Nuovo Pignone, a long-time global
leader in gas compression and turbo generation products. GE acquired
Nuovo Pignone in 1994 and since then has continued to expand its
oil and gas business by acquiring or developing partnerships with
other technology and experience leaders in the industry.
About GE Power Systems
GE Power Systems is one of the world's leading suppliers of power
generation technology, energy services and management systems with
2002 revenues of nearly $23 billion.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Power Systems provides equipment,
service and management solutions across the power generation, oil
and gas, distributed power and energy rental industries.
For more information see www.gepower.com.
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