Name and Location
Egoli Gas gas-network expansion project, Gauteng, South Africa.

Client
Egoli Gas.

Project Description
The project involves a network expansion west of Johannesburg, which will enable cellular group MTN to increase its current power generation capacity from 2 MW to more than 10 MW during 2015 and lay the basis for further gas-network expansions into areas such as Randburg and Sandton.

The 8 km pipeline will link Sasol’s pressure-reducing station in Robertsville, west of Johannesburg, with MTN’s 14th Avenue campus, in Fairlands, which already hosts a trigeneration power plant used to produce electricity, cool the company’s data centre and provide office heating.

The pipeline will connect to the Sasol facility at Saag road and will be buried 1.7 m below the surface of existing roads in the area before a logistically challenging crossing of the N1 motorway to the MTN campus.

The 630-mm-diameter high-density polyethylene pipe will initially deliver 1.5-million gigajoules a year of natural gas imported from Mozambique by Sasol, but there is headroom to increase yearly volumes to 2.5-million gigajoules.

The project is a precursor to a larger R300-million, three-year investment plan for Egoli Gas.

Value
Not stated.

Duration
The pipeline will be installed by between May and November.

Latest Developments
None stated.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Sangiopipe (pipeline) and Velocity Construction (pipeline installation).

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Egoli Gas, tel +27 11 356 5000 or fax +27 86 557 6672.
Sangiopipe, tel +27 31 782 3781, fax +27 31 782 3782 or email info@sangiopipe.co.za.
Velocity Construction, tel +27 11 951 4676.