Gastone for Transfer & Delivery Gas
Gaston Gas Transportation and Delivery Company (an Egyptian joint-stock company), a subsidiary of the Saad El-Din Group, is licensed to transport, market, and distribute compressed natural gas (CNG) via specialized tankers/cylinders to all customers in areas not served by the national natural gas network, as an alternative to diesel fuel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
Gaston enters into contracts to supply thousands of cubic meters of CNG daily to its customers in the industrial, commercial, tourism, and residential sectors.
The Mother-Daughter Station (MDS) and Virtual Pipeline concept was developed to serve areas where natural gas pipelines are unavailable or where extending a natural gas network is not economically viable due to the dispersal of end users across large areas of land, making the cost of establishing natural gas pipeline infrastructure currently unfeasible.
Essentially, compressed natural gas (CNG) trailers – known as tube skids – are filled at the mother station at a pressure of up to 250 bar. Trucks then transport these trailers to the daughter station at the customer's location to unload the gas.
In this case, the tube skid trailer acts as the gas supply source instead of a natural gas pipeline, which is why this system is called a virtual pipeline.
Main components/processes of a virtual pipeline system:
• Mother station
• CNG trailers (tube skids)
• Tractors/truck heads
• Semi-trailers
• Flexible connections/nozzles
• Decanting posts
• Boiler • Pressure reduction and regulation station (PRS/RPU).
• Internal Network and Governors
Mother Station:
Main Components:
Main components of the Mother Station:
• High-capacity reciprocating compressors.
• Priority Panel for prioritizing filling.
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system for automated filling.
• High-flow system for rapid filling of CNG trailers.
The Mother Station is supplied with gas via a pipeline branching off from the natural gas network.
CNG Trailers (Tube Skids):
These consist of high-pressure cylinders (operating pressure up to 250 bar) connected by stainless steel tubing, capable of storing up to 12,800 cubic meters per Type 4 trailer or 6,400 cubic meters per Type 1 CNG trailer.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) trailers are manufactured to the highest international standards to ensure safety during road transport, in accordance with ADR standards (European standard for the transport of hazardous materials ISO 11120 and ISO 9809-2).
Gaston enters into contracts to supply thousands of cubic meters of CNG daily to its customers in the industrial, commercial, tourism, and residential sectors.
The Mother-Daughter Station (MDS) and Virtual Pipeline concept was developed to serve areas where natural gas pipelines are unavailable or where extending a natural gas network is not economically viable due to the dispersal of end users across large areas of land, making the cost of establishing natural gas pipeline infrastructure currently unfeasible.
Essentially, compressed natural gas (CNG) trailers – known as tube skids – are filled at the mother station at a pressure of up to 250 bar. Trucks then transport these trailers to the daughter station at the customer's location to unload the gas.
In this case, the tube skid trailer acts as the gas supply source instead of a natural gas pipeline, which is why this system is called a virtual pipeline.
Main components/processes of a virtual pipeline system:
• Mother station
• CNG trailers (tube skids)
• Tractors/truck heads
• Semi-trailers
• Flexible connections/nozzles
• Decanting posts
• Boiler • Pressure reduction and regulation station (PRS/RPU).
• Internal Network and Governors
Mother Station:
Main Components:
Main components of the Mother Station:
• High-capacity reciprocating compressors.
• Priority Panel for prioritizing filling.
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system for automated filling.
• High-flow system for rapid filling of CNG trailers.
The Mother Station is supplied with gas via a pipeline branching off from the natural gas network.
CNG Trailers (Tube Skids):
These consist of high-pressure cylinders (operating pressure up to 250 bar) connected by stainless steel tubing, capable of storing up to 12,800 cubic meters per Type 4 trailer or 6,400 cubic meters per Type 1 CNG trailer.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) trailers are manufactured to the highest international standards to ensure safety during road transport, in accordance with ADR standards (European standard for the transport of hazardous materials ISO 11120 and ISO 9809-2).