The European Commission has cleared the Baltic Pipe project and approved a €215m grant under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme for the Baltic Pipe gas interconnection project connecting Poland and Denmark with Norway. This comes after the Danish and Polish gas transmission grid operators (TSOs) Energinet and 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 10 bcm/year 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 2022.