Sweden has issued a construction permit for the 85-km long pipeline section of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline project between Denmark and Poland in the Swedish exclusive economic zone, thus approving the last permit required for the 10 bcm/year project.
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 gas pipeline project has already secured all approvals in Denmark and Poland. The Polish and Danish gas transmission system operators (TSOs) Gaz-System and Energinet.dk both made positive investment decisions for the development of the €1.6bn project in December 2018. In late April 2020, Gaz-System awarded a €280m contract to Saipem to build a section of the project. Construction will start in the second half of 2020 and the pipes will be laid in the summer 2021 for first operations in October 2022.