Contract for China 's largest gas pipeline project

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Rotork has had been selected to supply valve actuators throughout the largest and most significant gas industry distribution project (planned in China. The $25 pull in West to East Natural gas Pipeline will extend the for 4000 kilometres, the from Lunnan in Xinjiang through nine provinces to Shanghai, and their gas from the Tarim Basin fields to the Yangtze Delta.

Rotork will supply more than seven hundred IQ range intelligent electric actuators to valvemakers in China, Holland, Italy and the USA. The majority will be fitted with Rotork Exeeco IW quarter - turn gearboxes for the operation of pipeline ball valves and plug-in valves. Sixty actuators are special IQM modulating versions for the operation of pressure control valves.

When completed in 2005, the 40 inch diameter buried pipeline will have the capacity to carry $12 cubic metres of gas a year to date, $505 cubic metres of reserves have had the discovered at Tarim, to maintain a steady supply for an estimated 30 years. The pipeline is designed with thirty - five process crisis and 138 block crisis, facilitating the development of municipal and branch pipeline networks in the future.

The orders for The West to East Natural Gas Pipeline, awarded to Rotork 's Beijing Company, extend The Company?S success with oil and gas industry distribution projects in China. The Rotork in 2001 was awarded the valve actuation contract for Lan - Chen Yu pipeline, which is the largest oil production pipeline in China, whilst in the 1990 's Rotork was awarded 90% of all valve actuation orders in China for major natural gas pipeline and network renewal projects.