The Long River pipeline project is just under 1000km long and is designed to transport refined oil at a rate of 21 million tonnes per annum once the project is completed next year.
The Long River pipeline will replace ship transportation of refined oil, with Sinopec estimating savings of around $A112 million in transport costs annually.
The contract is the second pipeline project Sinopec has awarded the French automation and electrical company, following Schneider's successful work on the LuWan refined oil pipeline.
Under the contract, Schneider will supply the pipeline project with one central monitoring centre and 13 stations, each equipped with a redundancy PLC system.
The monitoring centre will communicate with the 13 stations using an Ethernet TCP/IP system provided by Schneider Electric.
