Europipe I is a natural gas pipeline from the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
to Continental Europe.
History
The feasibility study of the pipeline's project was conducted in 1990.
[
] On 20 April 1993, an agreement between Norway and Germany was concluded on the construction of Europipe.
[
] The pipeline was commissioned on 1 October 1995 and it cost 21.3 billion
NOK
Nok is a village in Jaba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The village is an archeological site.
Archaeology
The discovery of terracotta figurines at this location caused its name to be used for the Nok culture, of which these ...
.
Route
The pipeline runs from the
Draupner E riser platform in the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
to a receiving terminal at
Dornum
Dornum is a village and a municipality in the East Frisian district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approx. 15 km east of Norden, and 20 km north of Aurich.
Division of the municipality
The ...
in
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. At Draupner E, it is connected with
Zeepipe
The Zeepipe is a natural gas transportation system to transport North Sea natural gas to the receiving terminal at Zeebrugge in Belgium.
The total costs of Zeepipe system is around 24.2 billion NOK. It is owned by Gassled partners and opera ...
and
Statpipe/
Norpipe
Norpipe is a subsea oil and natural gas pipelines system in the North Sea. It supplies oil from the Norwegian Ekofisk and associated fields in the North Sea to the United Kingdom and natural gas to Germany.
Oil pipeline
The Norpipe oil pipelin ...
system. From Dornum a land line runs to the metering station in
Emden
Emden () is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia and, in 2011, had a total population of 51,528.
History
The exact founding date of E ...
.
Technical description
The diameter of pipeline is and the capacity is of natural gas.
[
]
The pipeline is owned by
Gassled
Gassled is a partnership to own the offshore natural gas transportation infrastructure at the Norwegian continental shelf. Its pipelines are operated by Gassco.
Gassled was created in 2002 and it became operational on 1 January 2003.
Its origi ...
partners and operated by
Gassco
Gassco is a Norwegian state owned company that operates of natural gas pipes transporting annually of 100 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to Continental Europe and Great Britain.
15% of the tot ...
. The technical service provider is
Statoil
Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state owned enterprise, state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger. It is primarily a petroleum company, petroleum company, operating in 36 countries with ad ...
.
See also
*
Europipe II
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.
Route
It starts from Kårstø processing plant and runs about on ...
*
MIDAL
MIDAL (''Mitte-Deutschland-Anbindungsleitung'') is a long German natural gas pipeline, which connects the North Sea with southern Germany.
It runs from Bunde, where it is connected with Netherlands gas system, and Emdel receiving terminal, to ...
*
Norpipe
Norpipe is a subsea oil and natural gas pipelines system in the North Sea. It supplies oil from the Norwegian Ekofisk and associated fields in the North Sea to the United Kingdom and natural gas to Germany.
Oil pipeline
The Norpipe oil pipelin ...
References
External links
Europipe I Gassco website
{{coord missing, Germany
Energy infrastructure completed in 1995
North Sea energy
Natural gas pipelines in Germany
Natural gas pipelines in Norway
Germany–Norway relations
Pipelines under the North Sea
1995 establishments in Norway
1995 establishments in Germany