The Danish Environment Protection Agency has approved the location for the landfall and onshore section of the 10 bcm/year Baltic Pipe gas pipeline in Denmark. The Danish gas transmission network operator Energinet.dk will now seek approval from the 13 municipalities where the onshore section will be located.
Energinet.dk and its Polish counterpart Gaz-System both made positive investment decisions for the development of the project in December 2018. The project is in line with the European Union's energy policy and is expected to improve energy supply security by opening a permanent corridor for the delivery of Norwegian gas to Poland and help it to reduce its dependency to Russian gas imports. The Baltic Pipe project would be made of five parts: one offshore pipeline in the North Sea between the Norwegian and the Danish gas transmission systems across 105-110 km, then a 210-230 km gas transmission section and a compressor station onshore Denmark, a 275-km offshore pipeline between Denmark and Poland across the Baltic Sea and a 230-340 km onshore gas transmission pipeline in Poland. The project is expected to be commissioned in October 2022.