Gaz-System awards Baltic Pipe support contract

Polish natural gas transmission system operator Gaz-System SA has awarded Nova People – together with its subcontractors Fulkrum Technical Resources (UK) and PUI EKO-INWEST SA (Poland) – a contract to provide specialised personnel to support survey, construction, and inspection for both offshore pipelay and landfall operations of its 275-km, 10-billion cu m/year Baltic Pipe project.

Gaz-System is responsible for developing the 36-inch OD pipeline from Faxe, Denmark, to landfall at Pogorzelica, Poland.

Energinet.dk will take it across Denmark and finalise its route and offshore tie-in to Europipe.

The project has an expected completion date of fourth-quarter 2022, with Saipem Ltd. starting pipelay third-quarter 2021.

Baltic Pipe is being co-financed by the European Union to create a new inter-European gas corridor supplying gas directly from Norway via Europipe to markets in Denmark, Poland, and adjacent countries.

Earlier this year Gaz-System hired Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GmbH, part of international DNV GL group, to provide marine warranty surveyor services for the largely subsea natural gas pipeline.

Source: Oil & Gas Journal