OPAL pipeline

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The OPAL (Ostsee Pipeline Anbindungs-Leitung) is a planned 480 kilometres (298 mi) long pipeline, which will connect the planned Nord Stream pipeline with the JAGAL (distributes gas from the Yamal-Europe pipeline), and the STEGAL (distributes gas from the Central-European Russian gas transit system (Transgas) via Czech and Slovak republics) pipelines. It will run from Greifswald to Olbernhau near German-Czech border.[1] On the German-Czech border the pipeline will be connected with the planned Gazela Pipeline, which will connect gas export pipelines in the Czech Republic.[2]

The pipeline will be under the responsibility and ownership of E.ON Ruhrgas and Wingas, a joint venture of Wintershall and Gazprom. The diameter of pipeline will be 1,400 millimetres (55 in).[1]

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  1. ^ a b "From Russia with Gas An analysis of the Nord Stream pipeline’s impact on the European Gas Transmission System with the Tiger-Model" (PDF) (September 2007). EWI Working Paper (07.02). Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne. 
  2. ^ Markéta Hulpachová (2007-05-23). RWE plans new pipeline. The Prague Post. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.
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