South America’s largest diameter gas pipeline comes online
Mon, 8 February 2010
Petrobras has brought South America’s largest diameter gas pipeline, the Cabiunas-Reduc III gas pipeline, online in southeastern Brazil.
The 179 km, 38 inch diameter pipeline has a transportation capacity of 40 MMcm/d of gas and can transport gas produced from a variety of locations – including the Campos and Espirito Santo basins, gas imported from Bolivia, and gas from the Guanabara Bay LNG regasification terminal – to southeastern Brazil.
The trunkline cuts through eight Rio de Janeiro municipalities and the pipeline interconnects with the Japeri-Reduc, Reduc-Volta Redonda, and the Reduc-Belo Horizonte gas pipelines.
The Campos Eliseos Compression Station, with a capacity for 25 MMcm/d of gas was built in the city of Duque de Caxias at one end of the Cabiunas-Reduc III pipeline, while compression was increased at the existing Cabiunas Terminal, located in Macae.