Stroytransgaz Completes two sections of the Gas Pipeline in India
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Stroytransgaz has completed construction and assembly work and hydrotesting of the linear part of two sections of the East-West gas pipeline in India. That part of the pipeline is 249 kilometers in length and its diameter is 48 inches. Pre-commissioning work is currently underway, after which the pipeline will be filled with gas.
Stroytransgaz and Indian construction company Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd signed the contract for construction and related work in August 2006.
The customer divided the project for construction of the East-West gas pipeline, whose total length is 1,386 kilometers and diameter – 48 inches, into eight sections. Under its contract, Stroytransgaz completed field design engineering and construction of the linear parts of the first (147 kilometers) and second (102 kilometers) sections of the gas pipeline, six valve units, a pig receiver station, and more than 300 pipeline crossings of natural and man-made barriers.
The East-West gas pipeline will bring natural gas to the quickly growing central, western, and northern states of India. Gas will be delivered from the largest field in India, the recently discovered Krishna-Godavari field on the southeast shelf of the country. The route of the gas pipeline begins at the gas processing terminal near Kakinada, wends through the states of Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, and then ends near the city of Bharuch, 300 kilometers north of Mumbai.
The East-West gas pipeline is the first of its kind in India to use 48-inch diameter pipeage.
