For Europe

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Strengthening the European gas pipeline network to ensure our future supply.

Up to 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas will flow through the Nord Stream Baltic Sea pipeline to Germany every year following completion of the planned pipeline. The project has been classified by the European Union as a priority project within the Trans-European Networks (TEN). It will promote a sustainable and secure energy supply in Europe. An important part of this infrastructure measure is linking it up to the rest of the European gas network via the NEL and OPAL (Ostsee-Pipeline-Anbindungs-Leitung – Baltic Sea Pipeline Link) pipelines. They will transport the gas to where it is needed: to the customers in Germany and Europe. NEL will transport the natural gas to the west and OPAL will run towards the south.

Meeting demand

Europe is one of the biggest consumers of natural gas in the world. But gas reserves within Europe will dwindle in the future, so consumers will be even more dependent on imports. Energy suppliers in the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark have already expressed their interest in purchasing natural gas from the Baltic sea pipeline and its gas links, NEL and OPAL. In future almost a third of the anticipated additional demand for imports in Europe could be covered by deliveries via Nord Stream, NEL and OPAL.