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News Release from: GE Energy Europe | Subject: GE Software for pipeline data
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2007
GE Software for managing Brazil gas
pipeline data
GE has signed a contract to provide Brazil's largest gas distribution company, Comgas of Sao Paulo, with advanced pipeline data management software through its Energy and Oil and Gas businesses
This order represents the first sale of the GE Energy recently introduced Smallworld Global Transmission Office 4.1 software platform in Latin America and the first commercial delivery of the GE Oil and Gas external corrosion direct assessment (ECDA) application The scope of the contract also includes the GE Oil and Gas PipeView Integrity software
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 27 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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GE technology will be used by Comgas to manage its pipeline assets, as well as its pipeline integrity, including assessing risk, generating integrity management plans and managing ECDA projects.
The GE Oil and Gas PipeView Integrity system will use the information collected by Smallworld Global Transmission Office.
"The functionality provided in our Smallworld Global Transmission Office software and the ability to synchronise with the customer PODS database, coupled with the capabilities of PipeView Integrity and GE expertise in ECDA, will allow Comgas to effectively and efficiently manage its pipeline assets," said Bob Gilligan, general manager of the GE Energy transmission and distribution business.
Comgas is the largest distributor of piped natural gas in Brazil.
Its network comprises more than 4,000 kilometers of pipelines that deliver natural gas to more than 500,000 residential, retail and industrial customers in 57 cities.
Its service area comprises 177 municipalities in metropolitan Sao Paulo, metropolitan Campinas, the coastal area around Santos (Baixada Santista) and the Paraiba Valley, accounting for about a quarter of the Brazilian gross domestic product.
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