Germany's Wingas, a 65/35 joint venture of Wintershall AS and Russian gas giant Gazprom, has started work on a new pipeline link for import of gas into Germany from Russia's Yamal Peninsula.
The Jagal pipeline extends 330 km from Mallnow in Brandenburg to Ruckersdorf in Thuringia, where it will join up with the existing Stegal gas pipeline in Germany.
Jagal is due for completion in mid-1999 and will form part of the Yamal-Europe pipeline system, which will carry Russian gas more than 4,000 km from western Siberia to European markets.
Wingas said that recent forecasts show that western Europe will require an extra 150 billion cu m/year of gas by 2010, one third of which will be met by the Yamal-Europe project.
The Jagal pipeline will be 120 cm in diameter, said Wingas, and have capacity to transport as much as 28 billion cu m/year of gas. Capital cost is expected to be more than 1 billion deutsche- marks ($560 million).
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