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CPC Corporation, Taiwan
Natural Gas
CPC’s promotes natural gas as the fuel of the future in keeping with Taiwan’s policy aim of energy diversification. It is based on its inherent advantages in terms of high thermal efficiency, low pollution profile and convenience for safe handling. A new era of clean energy for Taiwan was ushered in with the completion of the country’s first LNG receiving terminal in Kaohsiung’s Yongan District in 1990. To cope with growing demand, its capacity was later boosted to 4.5 million tons annually; and a second-phase expansion project was completed in December 1996. A third-phase expansion project to satisfy demand from independent power producers (IPP) as well as consumer and industrial end- users in northern Taiwan commenced in July 1996. In addition to terminal-area expansion, this involved laying a 36-inch diameter, 238 km long undersea pipeline from the Yongan plant to Tongxiao. Its completion in December 2002 expanded CPC’s annual LNG handling capacity to 7.44 million tons.
Building up Taiwan’s natural gas production, transmission and storage infrastructure
Taiwan’s aforementioned second LNG receiving terminal is sited close to Taichung’s Port West Pier 13 and the hinterland. With the primary purpose of supplying natural gas to Taiwan Power Company’s (Taipower) industrial firms and household users in central and northern Taiwan, CPC built an annual LNG handling capacity of 3.0 million tons, three LNG storage tanks each of 160 thousand-kiloliter capacity; gasification and gas supply facilities; and a 135-kilometer, 36-inch sea long-distance gas transportation pipeline from Taichung Harbor through the Tongxiao distribution center to the Datan metering plant. This plan was launched on July 13, 2009. The recently-completed Taichung LNG Terminal Phase II Investment Project calls for the construction of three additional 160 thousand-kiloliter above-ground storage tanks plus another gasification facility at the terminal itself; a 26-inch, 21.8 km terrestrial gas pipeline between the terminal and the Wuxi