Project GAZELLE
The gas industry represents one of the major segments of the Czech energy sector. No other energy source offers possibilities and guarantees comparable with natural gas. Not only does it represent the most environmentally friendly non-renewable source, but the Czech Republic also offers extremely favorable conditions for the assurance of the safety and reliability of supplies. The diversification of transport routes plays an important role in this respect – natural gas is supplied to the Czech Republic from Russia and Norway. The planned interconnection of northern and southern routes by the GAZELLE pipeline will further increase this safety aspect. As a consequence, this will increase the strategic importance of the Czech Republic, located on the backbone European route supplying natural gas from Russia to the West. Countries of the European Union import more than half of the fuel and energy they need. This dependence should further increase up to 80 percent by 2050. Therefore, the EU jointly seeks ways of increasing the safety and reliability of their supplies. The planned new Czech high-pressure gas pipeline should become one such way.
The new route will connect Czech Republic to the Russian gas supply, which should flow to Europe mainly through the so-called Northern Route. The Northern Route will be established by Nord Stream pipeline, which will lead through the Baltic Sea from Russia to Greifswald, Germany. This pipeline will be connected to the new OPAL pipeline, which will lead to the German-Czech border near the municipality of Brandov.
ILF Consulting Engineeres, s.r.o., is the design engineering company of the new pipeline construction. The company provides the project documentation from Basic Design to Detail Design. RWE Plynoprojekt, a.s., arranges for the construction negotiations regarding the area of property and public law issues and related engineering for NET4GAS, s.r.o.
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