NET4GAS, owned by RWE, began to build a new border transfer station in Brandov, which is of key importance for the new high-pressure gas pipeline Gazelle, which is currently being built. The building permit obtained by the transmission system operator, makes it also possible to lay the first part of the transit pipeline GAZELLE, which is approximately 300 metres long and leads from Olbernhau in Germany, to Brandov where it will connect with the Opal pipeline to Greifswald (connection point with the Nord Stream pipeline). The planning permission has already been issued for the remaining part of GAZELLE. The GAZELLE pipeline will be part of the so-called “northern transmission route”, which will bring natural gas to Europe from hither to little used reservoirs in the Tyumen Oblast. The Nord Stream and OPAL pipelines whereby gas will be transported from Russia on the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Germany and then on to the Czech border will be expanded. The total length of the GAZELLE pipeline is planned to be 169 km and it should go from Brandov to the border transfer station Rozvadov/Waidhaus. There it will be connected to the transit system MEGAL whereby gas is transported across Southern Germany on to France. The €400m GAZELLE pipeline will have a capacity of 33 bcm/year.