GE And China Aviation Gas Turbine Company Extend Cooperative Agreement
Posted: 23 March 2005
GE Energy's oil and gas business and China Aviation Gas Turbine Company (CAGT) have extended their cooperative agreement for small gas turbines in the industrial power generation sector.
The new long-term agreement adds license and supply agreements to the packaging agreement that GE and CAGT signed in 2002.
Under the new license agreement, GE Energy and CAGT will jointly develop a new GE10-1 gas turbine package designed to reduce packaging, installation and maintenance costs. The new gas turbine package will be targeted for specific applications in Asia , including but not limited to coke gas applications in China .
Under the supply agreement, CAGT will package GE 10-1 gas turbines and manufacture parts and components for the auxiliary systems, incorporating a new design technology jointly developed under the license agreement for the Asia, Australia and New Zealand markets.
These long-terms agreements will strengthen the cooperation between GE Energy and CAGT, especially in the field of small power generation. CAGT is owned by AVIC 1, one of the China ’s primary manufacturers of aero-derivative gas turbines and jet engines.
The new GE10-1 heavy-duty gas turbine design will lower the overall package costs by introducing standard materials and equipment, incorporating modular engineering solutions, reducing overall dimensions and using Chinese-supplied materials.
In December 2004, Shanxi Sanwei Group awarded CAGT an EPC contract for the second GE10-1 cogeneration plant in China to utilize coke oven gas. This market sector is expanding, due largely to the recent and rapid growth of electricity demand for China’s industry, and to the availability of large quantities of coke oven gas. The plant is planned to start up during the summer of 2005.
GE Energy's oil and gas business is based in Florence , Italy , the home of Nuovo Pignone, a long-time global leader in gas compression and turbo generation products. GE acquired ownership of Nuovo Pignone in 1994 and since then has continued to expand its oil and gas business by acquiring or developing partnerships with other technology and experience leaders in the industry.
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