Building permit for the Turek-Odolanów section of the Gustorzyn-Odolanów pipeline.
On 25 April 2012, the Wielkopolska Voivode, Mr Piotr Florek, issued a building permit for the high-pressure pipeline Gustorzyn-Odolanów, Stage II Turek-Odolanów, for the 85.3 km long section in the territory of Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, which will run from the border of Przykona and Turek municipalities to the town of Odolanów. GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. has obtained a complete set of building permits for that gas pipeline.
The decision relates to the following municipalities: Turek, town of Turek Malanów, Mycielin, Ceków Kolonia, Żelazków, Blizanów, town of Kalisz, Nowe Skalmierzyce, Ostrów Wlkp., town of Ostrów Wlkp., Przygodzice, Odolanów and town of Odolanów.
The Gustorzyn-Odolanów Gas Pipeline is situated in Wielkopolskie and Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeships. The project involves the construction of a pipeline 700 mm across and 168 km long in two stages: Stage I Gustorzyn–Turek and stage II Odolanów-Turek. This project will enable the connection and cooperation between the peak-load Mogilno Cavern Underground Gas Storage Facility and the seasonal Underground Gas Storage Facility Wierzchowice. The project will allow to increase the gas transmission capacity in both directions, as the requirements of the system might be, with a simultaneous off-take from both the KPMG Mogilno and the PMG Wierzchowice.
The pipeline construction cost is estimated at PLN 638 million zlotys, whereas the amount received from the Operational Programme “Infrastructure and Environment” 2007-2013 is PLN 175.45 million. The said Programme also provides financial support to the following gas pipelines: Szczecin-Lwówek (PLN 159.26 million), Szczecin-Gdańsk (PLN 226.88 million), Włocławek–Gdynia (PLN 21.47 million), Jeleniów-Dziwiszów (PLN 43.90 million), Polkowice-Żary (PLN 25.59 million) and Rembelszczyzna-Gustorzyn (PLN 121.55 million).
The project is planned to conclude by March 2014.
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Gas Transmission Operator GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. is a strategic company wholly owned by the Treasury, responsible for natural gas transmissions throughout Poland. The Company manages approx. PLN 5 bn worth of assets which comprise mainly the components of the transmission system, including more than 9,800 km of high-pressure pipelines, 14 compressor stations, 56 hubs and 970 exit points. The company employs more than 2000 persons. GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. is also the owner of Polskie LNG S.A., a company established to build the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Świnoujście.
GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. will build more than 1,000 km of new gas pipelines by 2014. The most important of them will be situated in north-western and central Poland (Szczecin-Lwówek, Świnoujście-Szczecin, Szczecin-Gdańsk, Rembelszczyzna-Gustorzyn and Gustorzyn-Odolanów). The development of the gas transmission network in Poland may constitute an important element of the North – South Gas Corridor connecting the LNG terminal in Świnoujście to the planned Adria LNG terminal through the transmission infrastructure of Central European countries.
In 2011, GAZ–SYSTEM S.A. has completed the construction of the Włocławek–Gdynia gas pipeline and gas compressor stations in Goleniów and Jarosław. The Company has also opened a new Polish–Czech Interconnector that enables the transmission of approx. 0.5 bcm of gas annually. GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. has also developed gas pipelines in Lower Silesia that enable the off-take of greater amounts of gas from the western direction. The capacity at the Lasów point on the Polish-German border is currently 1.5 bcm annually (the previous capacity was 0.9 bcm a year).
The investment projects completed by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. in 2011 have offered a possibility of using virtual reverse flow services on the Yamal pipeline and created technical capacities to import more than 3.3 bcm of gas annually to Poland from new sources (approx. 30% of the currently imported volume).
Contact:
Małgorzata Polkowska
Spokesperson of GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
Tel. 22 01 546, mobile 691 911 217
E-mail: pr@gaz-system.pl
