OPAL pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Greifswald
• Destination: Czech Republic
• Ownership: Gascade
• Website: https://www.gascade.de/
• Length: 473 kilometres ( miles)
• Capacity: per day
• Status: Operating

Details

• The 473 km long OPAL, which can transport up to 36 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, runs from Greifswald on the Baltic Sea coast through the German states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Saxony to the Czech Republic.
• The pipeline was built to transport gas from the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline
• From 2011 until 2023, OPAL partial exemption from regulation

History

• 2011 - Pipeline began operations
• 2023 - Gascade became majority owner

Other Information

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Links

1. Gascade, OPAL
2. Baltic Sea Pipeline Link (OPAL) Now Part Of Gascade