Zhang Wenwei is the engineer-in-chief of the designing institute, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering co., LTD. She was the alumna of oil field equipment from the class of 1987, China University of Petroleum. On May 14, she was invited to make a presentation on CCTV special program of 'Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation'. She designed the west-east gas transmission pipeline at the age of 31 and directed the design work of projets of Sino-Myanmar Pipeline, Central Asia Pipeline and Sino-Russian Pipeline which have greatly promote the energy development of the surrounding countries and China.
The West–East Gas Pipeline is a set of natural gas pipelines which run from the western part of China to the east. It is the 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) long pipeline running from Xinjiang to Shanghai. The pipeline passes through 66 cities in the 10 provinces in China. Natural gas transported by the pipeline is used for electricity production in the Yangtze River Delta area. Zhang Wenwei took the charge of engineering design of the pipeline. With her most efforts and persistence, she completed the design of the pipleline and for her excellent work, she was awarded by the country.
Sino-Myanmar pipeline is the oil and natural gas pipelines linking Myanmar's deep-water port of Kyaukphyu (Sittwe) in the Bay of Bengal with Kunming in Yunnan province of China. It is the most difficult pipleline for its harsh geographical conditions. Zhang Wenwei and her team succeeded in overcoming all challenges and found the best plan for the pipeline. The pipeline has brougt great changes to the countries along the route. The power problem of Myanmar has been solved with nearly two billion cubic metres of gas and two million tons piped every year.
The Central Asia–China gas pipeline (known also as Turkmenistan–China gas pipeline) is a natural gas pipeline system from Central Asia to Xinjiang in China. It is the first transnational pipleline dsigned by China and the first pipeline to bring Central Asian natural gas to China and highlights China's quest for Central Asian energy exports. The work was under the cooperation of desginers from China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Zhang Wenwei is one of them and she tried to find most optimal design for the pipeline. The pipeline helped China in meeting its energy demands and stabilizes the country's overall consumption structure.
So far, design technologies used by Zhang Wenwei have been applied to more pipelines and more are being bulit in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. As Zhang Wenwei said, with the strategic support of Belt and Road, Chinese pipelines will be found in more countries and connet the whole world.
Editor: Bu Lingduo
Source: UPC News Center
Updatetime: 2017-05-22
