Baltic Pipe

Baltic Pipe
Baltic Pipe
	Location of Baltic Pipe
Location
Country	Norway; Denmark; Poland;
From	Europipe II, North Sea
Passes through	North Sea; Denmark; Baltic Sea;
To	Poland
General information
Type	natural gas
Operator	Energinet; Gaz-System;
Commissioned	27 September — 30 November 2022
Technical information
Length	900 km (560 mi)
Maximum discharge	10 billion m3/a (350 billion cu ft/a) (Norway–Denmark–Poland); 3 billion m3/a (110 billion cu ft/a) (Poland–Denmark);

The Baltic Pipe is a natural gas pipeline between Europipe II (which traverses the North Sea between Norway and Germany) and Poland. It is a strategic infrastructure project to create a new European gas supply corridor.^[1]

The Baltic Pipe transports natural gas from the North Sea to Poland via Denmark at up to 10 billion cubic metres (350 billion cubic feet) per year.^[1]^[2] The project was developed by the Danish gas and electricity transmission system operator Energinet and the Polish gas transmission system operator Gaz-System.^[3]^[4] The project is recognised as a Project of Common Interest of the European Union.^[5]^[3]

The Baltic Pipe officially became operational on 27 September 2022,^[6] one day after a series of as of yet unexplained explosions on 26 September 2022 rendered the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines from Russia to Germany inoperable.^[7]

^ ^a ^b "ENERGINET: Baltic Pipe can be put into full operation one month ahead of planned". www.baltic-pipe.eu. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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^ ^a ^b "The pipe dream securing EU energy security". Pipeline International. 25 May 2019. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^ "The Baltic Pipe Project moves to the next level". CEEP. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^ Morgan, Sam (27 June 2019). "Baltic power games in the ascendancy". Euractiv. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference regjeringen20220927 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Scislowska, Monika; Olsen, Jan M.; Keyton, David (28 September 2022). "Blasts precede Baltic pipeline leaks, sabotage seen likely". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 28 September 2022.