Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the
Kårstø processing plant north of
Stavanger
Stavanger (, , US usually , ) is a city and municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the administrative center of Rogaland county. T ...
to a receiving terminal at
Dornum in
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
. 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 betw ...
. 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 t ...
(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. Salzwe ...
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. ...
's Åsgard,
Sleipner East/West,
Gullfaks and
Statfjord fields.
The Europipe II pipeline was laid by Semac I,
Castoro Sei and
Solitaire
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These gam ...
pipe-laying ships.
[
] Europipe II was commissioned in 1999 and it cost 9.6 billion NOK. The pipeline is operated by
Gassco, the technical service provider is
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. ...
. It was built with an option to branch out to a separate pipeline to Denmark. A
pipeline end manifold was installed in April 2022 for the
Baltic Pipe to Poland.
See also
*
Europipe I
*
MIDAL
References
External links
europipe II 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