Infrastructure group wins key gas plant contract to cut emissions at strategic site
United Living Group, the Warrington-based infrastructure, construction, and property services company, has won a contract at a Gloucestershire gas station.
United’s subsidiary, United Living Infrastructure Services (ULIS) has been awarded a two-stage engineering, procurement and construction project aimed at reducing emissions at Wormington Compressor Station, Gloucestershire.
Natural gas is highly pressurised as it travels through a pipeline. To ensure the natural gas remains pressurised, it must be compressed periodically along the pipeline. This is accomplished by using compressor stations where gas is compressed either by a turbine, a motor or an engine.
The strategically important Wormington facility is a crucial junction, linking gas import terminals in South Wales and supporting gas supply into South Wales and South West England.
The project forms part of the Medium Plant Combustion Directive (MCPD), which aims to improve air quality by reducing emissions from combustion plants, including gas turbine driven compressor trains.
The Wormington project will see the installation of a new, low emission gas turbine-driven compressor train built on land next to the existing site.
The Wormington compressor project is a significant milestone for ULIS, which will oversee the civil, mechanical, electrical and control and instrumentation (EC&I) engineering development.
Wormington MCPD is ULIS’s second major compressor station project with National Gas. The Hatton Compressor Station project, in Lincolnshire, is due for completion in 2025.
Campbell Crawford, ULIS managing director, said: “Delivering world class infrastructure is at the heart of everything we do at United Living, and we look forward to working collaboratively with National Gas and our engineering partner, Kent, to deliver this compressor project safely and successfully, ensuring the UK’s gas network is resilient and fit for the future.”
Darren Christie, project director, National Gas, said: “Our Wormington facility plays a vital role in linking gas import terminals in South Wales and South West England with our National Gas Transmission System.
“By utilising our project partners’ skills and expertise we can hope to see successful delivery of this investment. This will ultimately improve the compressor resilience at the site, providing greater energy security and helping reduce compressor emissions as part of the UK’s Net Zero ambitions.”
