Baltic Pipe construction work in Denmark may resume

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has told transport system operator Energinet that it may resume construction work in certain parts of the 210-kilometre section of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline in Denmark,  Financial one reports.

Energinet expects the project as a whole to be delayed by 3 months, but by October 2022 it will be able to transport gas to Poland, to reach full capacity by the end of 2022, the company said in a press release on Saturday.

“Following the decision of the Danish Environment and Food Board of Appeal of May 31, 2021, to revoke the environmental permit for the Baltic Pipe project, Energinet introduced a temporary construction stop. The Danish Environmental Protection Agency said that it does not object to Energinet's plans to resume construction on certain sections of the project,” the statement explains.

Company spokesman Marian Kaag notes that the new parts of the Baltic Pipe, combined with the existing Danish transport system, will enable Energinet to transport gas to Poland from October 2022, and Energinet will reach full capacity by the end of 2022.

Baltic Pipe is a gas pipeline project that is supposed to connect fields on the Norwegian shelf in the North Sea with Poland via Denmark. The project envisages the interconnection of Norwegian and Danish gas transmission systems, the expansion of the infrastructure of Denmark and Poland, as well as the construction of a pipe that will connect the two countries along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The planned capacity of the gas pipeline is 10 billion cubic meters per year.

As reported, Denmark withdrew a permit for the construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline.

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