Introduction

Owner:GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., Energinet.dk.

Capacity:10 billion cubic meter per year to Poland

Construction start year: March 2020

Construction finish year: Oct 2022

The Baltic Pipe project is planned as collaboration between GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., the Polish gas transmission company and Energinet.dk, a Danish operator of transmission systems for natural gas and electricity. 

The gas project is listed on the EU list of projects of particular European interest. The Baltic Pipe is a strategic gas infrastructure project, with the goal of creating a new gas supply corridor on the European market. The project ultimately will make it possible to transport gas from fields in Norway to the Danish and Polish markets, as well as to customers in neighbouring countries. If required, the Baltic Pipe will enable the supply of gas reversely from Poland to the Danish and Swedish markets. 

The offshore pipeline between Denmark and Poland is an important part of the overall project Baltic Pipe. 

The Baltic Pipe project consists of five key components:

1. A new gas pipeline in the North Sea (length 120 km) from the Norwegian offshore gas fields to the Danish coast. In the North Sea the pipeline ties in the existing pipeline Europipe II connecting Norway and Germany.

2. In Denmark, a new gas pipeline is planned, which extends over approx. 220 km across Jutland, Funen and Southeast Zealand.

3. A new compressor station (CS Zealand) at the Danish shore in Zealand.

4. An offshore pipeline linking Denmark and Poland for bi-directional gas transmission, which is the subject of the present notification.

5. The necessary expansion of the Polish gas system to receive gas from Denmark.

The Baltic Pipe offshore pipeline will be constructed of carbon steel pipes with an outer diameter of 36 inches (914 mm). The pipeline will consist of 12 m long sections. The main objectives of the Baltic Pipe project are to further strengthen supply diversification, market integration, price convergence and security of supply in primarily Poland and Denmark and secondarily in Sweden, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Baltic region. 

In 2013,The Baltic Pipe project was included in the first list of Projects of Common Interest (PCI), drawn up by the European Commission.

In November 2015,The Baltic Pipe project was included in  the second list adopted by the European Commission.

In November 2017,The Baltic Pipe project was in the third list published by the European Commission  (expected date of publishing in Official Journal of the European Union – first quarter of 2018) underlining its regional importance. Baltic Pipe is project No. 8.3 in the Union list of projects of common interest.

The gas pipeline is planned to be ready for operation in 2022 with construction start in March 2020.