GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. buys pipes for the new Szczecin-Gdańsk gas pipeline
On 16 February 2012, GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. signed partial contracts with Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A. Ş., headquartered in Istanbul, for the delivery of steel carrier pipes 700 mm in diameter for the construction of the Szczecin-Gdańsk gas pipeline (for Stage II Karlino-Koszalin, Stage III Koszalin-Słupsk and Stage IV Słupsk-Wiczlino).
The total net value of the signed contracts is more than 22.2 million euros.
Partial contracts are signed under framework agreements entered into with the contractors selected by public tender.
The framework agreements will be effective for two years. Individual orders will be placed under separate, partial contracts, concluded each time after the best bid for the given pipe lot is accepted. This will allow GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. to speed-up the project and improve its cost efficiency.
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Gas Transmission Operator GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. is a strategic company wholly owned by the Treasury, responsible for natural gas transmission throughout Poland. The Company manages approx. PLN 5 bn worth of assets which comprise mainly the components of the transmission system, including more than 9,700 km of high-pressure pipelines, 15 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:
Ms Małgorzata Polkowska
Spokesperson of GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
Tel. (22) 22-01-755, 691-911-217
E-mail: pr@gaz-system.pl
www.gaz-system.pl
