Dresser-Rand to supply three compressor trains for pipeline in Thailand

The Dresser-Rand business, part of Siemens Power and Gas, will supply three gas turbine-driven turbo compressor trains for the Wang Noi compressor station in Thailand. Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. is constructing the station. Owner of the station is Thailand’s state-owned oil and gas company, PTT Public Company Limited (PTT). The project is expected to be completed in 2018.

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The compressor station will be located 70 km from Bangkok. It will enhance the capacity of the Ratchaburi-Wang Noi pipeline to meet the increasing natural gas demands of power plants next to the pipeline. Within the compressor station, three SGT-400 industrial gas turbines will each drive a Siemens barrel-type STC-SV compressor.

“The compressor train was chosen to ensure PTT safe, reliable operation with low total life cycle costs,” said Judy Marks, head of New Equipment Solutions for the Dresser-Rand business. “Our highly efficient compressor train technology offers a small footprint, thanks to its compact design, and higher availability due to shorter scheduled downtimes.”

The 154-km pipeline, completed in 2000, runs from Wang Noi to Ratchaburi. The three 15 MW SGT-400 gas turbine-driven turbo compressor trains will increase pipeline volume by 800 MMscfd of gas. The gas supplied by the pipeline will also be used in a new combined cycle power plant in South Bangkok with an electrical output of approximately 1,200 MW.

Earlier this year Siemens, together with its Japanese consortium partner Marubeni Corporation, received an order to provide this turnkey power plant, which will feature two Siemens H-class gas turbines. 

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