The Norwegian-Poland gas pipeline has been linked to the Danish and Polish gas transfer infrastructure, according to the Polish pipeline operator Gaz-System.
The Polish operator said in a Thursday statement that Gaz-System and its Danish counterpart, Energinet, have carried out a key stage of assembly work on the undersea gas pipeline.
Today, we can confirm that the undersea section of the Baltic Pipe has become an element of the domestic transmission system, Gaz-System's president, Tomasz Stepien, was quoted as saying. The investment has created a new corridor for natural gas supplies in Central and Eastern Europe thanks to the integration of the Polish and Danish gas networks. The Baltic Pipe project will be operational on October 1, according to Stepien.
The project marks the beginning of Poland's attempts to become fully independent from Russian gas. Baltic Pipe will be capable of carrying 10 billion cubic metres bcm of gas a year to Poland and 3 bcm from Poland to Denmark.