Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the

Kårstø Kårstø is an industrial facility located near the village of Susort, along the Boknafjorden, in the municipality of Tysvær in Rogaland county, Norway. The site features a number of natural gas processing plants that refine natural gas and con ...

processing plant north of

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

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 ...

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. It came on stream on 1 October 1999.

Route

It starts from Kårstø processing plant and runs about onshore from Kårstø to

Vestre Bokn Vestre Bokn is an island in Bokn municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The island is the main island of the municipality. It lies on the northern side of the Boknafjorden at the southern end of the Karmsundet strait. Vestre Bokn lies betwe ...

. From there, the offshore pipeline runs through Norwegian, Danish and German sectors of the North Sea. The German onshore section is long. At Dornum the gas is supplied into the

Netra Netra (''Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale'') is a long natural gas pipeline system in Germany, which runs from the Dornum natural gas receiving facilitiy at the coast of North Sea to Salzwedel in eastern Germany, where it is connected with the J ...

(Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale) gas pipeline, which runs to

Salzwedel Salzwedel (, officially known as Hansestadt Salzwedel; Low German: ''Soltwedel'') is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, and has a population of approximately 21,500. Salz ...

in eastern Germany.

Technical description

The diameter of pipeline is and the capacity is of natural gas per year. Most of the gas is supplied from

Equinor Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger. It is primarily a petroleum company, operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy. I ...

's Åsgard, Sleipner East/West,

Gullfaks Gullfaks is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Equinor. It was discovered in 1978, in block 34/10, at a water depth of 130-230 meters.Petterson, O., Storli, A., Ljosland, E., Nygaard, O., Massie, I., and Carl ...

and

Statfjord The Statfjord oil field is a large oil and gas field covering 580 km2 in the U.K.-Norwegian boundary of the North Sea at a water depth of 145 m, discovered in 1974 by Mobil and since 1987 operated by Equinor. It is a trans-median field cros ...

fields. The Europipe II pipeline was laid by Semac I, Castoro Sei and

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s. Europipe II was commissioned in 1999 and it cost 9.6 billion NOK. The pipeline is 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 total ...

, the technical service provider is

. It was built with an option to branch out to a separate pipeline to Denmark. A

pipeline end manifold A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tanker (ship), tankers loading or offloading gas or liquid products. SPMs are th ...

was installed in April 2022 for the

Baltic Pipe 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. The Baltic Pipe trans ...

to Poland.

References

External links

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Gassco website {{coord missing, Germany 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 de:Europipe Gasleitung

Route

Technical description

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