Jauniūnai Natural Gas Compression Station
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Jauniūnai natural gas compression station is a gas
compressor station A compressor station is a facility which helps the movement of gas from one location to another in a pipeline system. Gases typically transported over long distances in this way include natural gas, methane, ethylene, hydrogen, ammonia and carbon d ...
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Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
, located in Jauniūnai,
Å irvintos District Municipality Å irvintos District Municipality () is a municipalities of Lithuania, municipality in Lithuania, it is in territory of Vilnius County and its capital is Å irvintos. Geography The territory of the municipality is 906 km². Å irvintos City, 5 ...
. Capacity at the station is 34.5 MW. The station will be the end point of the planned
Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania (GIPL) is a gas pipeline between Poland and Lithuania. The pipeline was commissioned and started commercial operation on 1 May 2022. The length of the pipeline is and the natural gas can flow both direction ...
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History

Due to increasing natural gas consumption in Lithuania the existing gas compression station was not sufficient to service demand. In 2007 the Lithuanian National Energy Strategy Act was adopted with a new natural gas compression station project included. Jauniūnai was selected due mainly to its location along the Minsk-Vilnius pipeline, the Vilnius-Kaunas-Kaliningrad pipeline and two threads of the Vilnius-Panevėžys-Riga pipeline. In 2009 construction works started and were finished in 2010. The cost of construction was estimated at 200 million
litas The Lithuanian litas (ISO currency code LTL, symbolized as Lt; plural ''litai'' (nominative) or ''litų'' (genitive) was the currency of Lithuania, until 1 January 2015, when it was replaced by the euro. It was divided into 100 centų (geniti ...
.Į Jauniūnų dujų kompresorių stotį investavo 200 mln. Lt
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