Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the Kårstø processing plant north of Stavanger, Norway, to a receiving terminal at Dornum in Germany. It came on stream on 1 October 1999.[
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Route
Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the Kårstø plant north of
Stavanger, Norway and runs about onshore from Kårstø to
Vestre Bokn. From there, the offshore pipeline runs through Norwegian, Danish and German sectors of the North Sea. The German onshore section is long.
[
] At
Dornum the gas is supplied into the
Netra (
Norddeutsche
Erdgas
Transversale) gas pipeline, which runs to Salzwedel in eastern Germany.
Technical description
The diameter of pipeline is and the capacity is of natural gas per year.
[
] Most of the gas is supplied from
Statoil's Åsgard, Sleipner East/West, Gullfaks and Statfjord fields.
The Europipe II pipeline was laid by Semac I, Castoro Sei and Solitaire . Europipe II was commissioned in 1999 and cost 9.6 billion NOK. The pipeline is operated by Gassco, the technical service provider is Statoil. It was built with an option to branch out to a separate pipeline to Denmark. A pipeline end manifold was installed in April 2022 for the Baltic Pipe to Poland.
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