OMV to add compression to TAG pipeline

OMV Gas GMBH plans to add a compressor station in 2008 on the 380-km Trans Austria Gasleitung gas pipeline extending from the Slovakian-Austrian border to the Austrian-Italian border.

June 20, 2005

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 20 -- OMV Gas GMBH, a subsidiary of Austria's OMV AG, plans to add a compressor station in 2008 on the 380-km Trans Austria Gasleitung (TAG) natural gas pipeline extending from the Slovakian-Austrian border near the Baumgarten hub in Lower Austria to the Austrian-Italian border near Arnoldstein.

The TAG pipeline, which delivers Russian gas to Italy, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia, has capacity of 37 billion cu m/year. Capacity will rise in 2007 to 41 billion cu m/year when the third stage of the TAG Loop II extension—currently under construction—is completed and to 44.2 billion cu m/year upon completion of the additional compressor station.

Preparatory engineering on the compression facilities is under way, and OMV plans to begin construction this fall.