Energy - Last seam welded: EWE completes pipeline
After a construction period of around nine months, a further connection pipeline for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the north-west of Lower Saxony has been technically completed with a final weld. The so-called golden seam for the 70-kilometer pipeline was welded at a construction site near Westerstede in Ammerland, as the energy supplier EWE announced on Thursday. The pipeline is due to go into operation at the beginning of 2024 and will transport the LNG, which has been landed at the terminal in Wilhelmshaven and then re-gasified, to gas storage facilities in the district of Leer and into the long-distance gas network.
The underground pipeline has a capacity of six billion cubic meters per year - enough to supply around four million households with energy, according to EWE. In future, the pipeline will transport green hydrogen produced from renewable energies instead of natural gas.
For around a year now, LNG has been landed in Wilhelmshaven via the first floating import terminal. The gas grid operator Open Grid Europe had already built the first pipeline for this last year. The Wilhelmshaven-Leer pipeline built by EWE near Sande now connects to this pipeline and runs through the three districts of Friesland, Ammerland and Leer to the gas storage facilities on the Ems. According to EWE, it has invested 200 million euros in this project.
With its completion, Lower Saxony is strengthening its position as a "hub for energy for the whole of Germany", said Economics Minister Olaf Lies on the occasion of the final seam. "The new pipeline is not only an essential building block for Germany's energy security, but also for a sustainable, resilient and affordable energy supply in the long term. We absolutely need this for the success of the transformation of our economy."
EWE website on the new pipeline OGE information on the Etzel-Wardenburg pipeline project
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Source: www.stern.de
