European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL)

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European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL) is a proposed pipeline in Germany.

Location

275 kilometers of the pipeline will be located in Brandeburg, 110km in Saxony and 100km in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania area. The entry point will be located at Vierow / Lubmin region near Greifswald, positioned in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the Baltic Sea. Exit points will be located at Kienbaum / Groß Köris region in Brandenburg and Deutschneudorf in Saxony along the German and Czech border.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gascade
• Current capacity:
• Proposed capacity: 51 billion cubic meters per year
• Length: 485 kilometers
• Status: Proposed
• Start Year:2019

Background

European gas pipeline link (EUGAL) is a planned 485km-long natural gas pipeline system. The proposed capacity of the pipeline is 51 billion cubic meters per year. The pipeline will past through the Baltic coast of Germany via Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and southern Saxony to the Czech Republic border. It is set to be constructed parallel to the existing OPAL pipeline, and will be connected at the landing point of the Nord Stream 2 network which will deliver Russian gas into central Europe. The first string of the pipeline will be operational by 2019 and the second string will be finished in 2020.

The pipeline will connect gas from Russia's Nord Stream 2 project to countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, and Poland, while linking up to gas pipelines that transport gas to northwest Europe and France. The EUGAL pipeline has become politically contentious as it will be part of a process that will effectively double Russia's gas export to Germany while bypassing Ukraine and Poland. Without the 3 billion euro EUGAL project, the Nordstream 2 project is essentially ineffective.

Ownership

The project's majority owner is gascade (50.5%), a joint-venture betweeen BASF / Wintershall and Gazprom. The remainder of the pipeline's stakeholders are pipeline transmission operators Fluxys Deutschland, Gasunie Deutschland and eastern Germany’s Ontras. Each operator will receive a 16.5 percent stake in the pipeline, according to Gascade.