Europipe II
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Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the Kårstø processing plant north of Stavanger to a receiving terminal at Dornum in Germany. It came on stream on 1 October 1999.[1]
Route
It starts from Kårstø processing plant and runs about Script error: No such module "convert". onshore from Kårstø to Vestre Bokn. From there, the Script error: No such module "convert". offshore pipeline runs through Norwegian, Danish and German sectors of the North Sea. The German onshore section is Script error: No such module "convert". long.[2] At Dornum the gas is supplied into the Netra (Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale) gas pipeline, which runs to Salzwedel in eastern Germany.
Technical description
The diameter of pipeline is Script error: No such module "convert". and the capacity is Script error: No such module "convert". of natural gas per year.[3] Most of the gas is supplied from Equinor's Åsgard, Sleipner East/West, Gullfaks and Statfjord fields.
The Europipe II pipeline was laid by Semac I, Castoro Sei and Solitaire pipe-laying ships.[4] Europipe II was commissioned in 1999 and it cost 9.6 billion NOK. The pipeline is operated by Gassco, the technical service provider is Equinor. It was built with an option to branch out to a separate pipeline to Denmark. A pipeline end manifold was installed in April 2022 for the Baltic Pipe to Poland.[5]
See also
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References
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External links
- europipe II, Gassco website
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- Energy infrastructure completed in 1999
- North Sea energy
- Natural gas pipelines in Germany
- Natural gas pipelines in Norway
- Germany–Norway relations
- Pipelines under the North Sea
- 1999 establishments in Germany
- 1999 establishments in Norway