Offshore staff
ERLANGEN, Germany – European energy utility WINGAS, a joint venture between Wintershall and Gazprom, has contracted Siemens Energy for a compression system for its OPAL natural gas Baltic Sea pipeline link.
The scope of supply comprises three compressor trains, each featuring an STC-SV compressor driven by an SGT-700 gas turbine, which will be deployed at the first OPAL compressor station in Radeland, Brandeburg. Siemens will also provide the control units, and all electrical and auxiliary systems. The compressor station will boost the pressure in the gas pipeline up to 100 bar.
Commissioning of the OPAL link is scheduled for fall 2011. The pipeline will be 470 km (292 mi) long and will link Germany and Europe with gas reserves in Siberia via the Nord Stream pipeline that ends in Lubmin near Greifswald, Germany. OPAL will receive the natural gas from there and transport it as far as the Czech border.
03/16/2010
Courtesy Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG
Courtesy Petrobras
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