SBW Group, headquartered in Shenyang in China’s Liaoning Province, was first founded in 1934 to design, manufacture and commercialize centrifugal and reciprocating compressors and pumps for application in the domestic petrochemical, fertilizer, coal, natural gas transportation, and power industries.
The agreement was signed today in Shenyang by Mr Su Yongqiang, chairman of SBW Group and Fernando Bertoni, general manager of business development for GE Oil & Gas in the presence of Mayor Chen Haibo and other senior government officials.
SBW Group’s domestic installed base includes over 1,850 large-scale centrifugal compressors, 1,059 large water pumps and 885 reciprocating compressors, and its customers include China Petrochemical, China National Petroleum, Linde, JSW Steel, and China National Offshore Oil.
The company, whose main shareholder is the Shenyang Government, operates 13 subsidiaries and has over 6,000 employees, including a core management team with more than 75 years of compressor design and manufacturing experience.
GE Oil & Gas is a supplier of turbomachinery equipment to Petrochina, owner and developer of the milestone West-to-East gas pipeline infrastructure project. In addition to the West-to-East pipeline project, GE has been an equipment supplier for Sinopec’s Sichuan-to-East China pipeline, which transports natural gas from the Puguang field in Sichuan to Shanghai in China’s eastern region.
