During the past decade thousands of Rotork IQ intelligent electric valve actuators have been installed on stages one and two of the 4,000km long West-East Gas Pipeline (WEPP) network that runs through China Opened in 2004, the first stage in the WEPP network was to bring natural gas from the Tarim Basin gas fields in Xinjiang to the Yangtze River Delta area for the production of electricity. In 2008 construction began on a second pipeline, in part running parallel to and interconnected with the first. The second pipeline runs from Xinjiang to Guangzhou and is being followed by two further pipeline developments, all designed to supply billions of cubic metres of gas to satisfy the burgeoning demand for energy in China's industrial and population centres.
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