Polish natural gas transmission system operator Gaz-System SA awarded Nova People–together with its subcontractors Fulkrum Technical Resources (UK) and PUI EKO-INWEST SA (Poland)–a contract to provide specialized personnel to support survey, construction, and inspection for both offshore pipelay and landfall operations of its 275-km, 10-billion cu m/year Baltic Pipe project.
Gaz-System is responsible for developing the 36-in. OD pipeline from Faxe, Denmark, to landfall at Pogorzelica, Poland. Energinet.dk will take it across Denmark and finalize its route and offshore tie-in to Europipe. The project has an expected completion date of fourth-quarter 2022, with Saipem Ltd. starting pipelay third-quarter 2021.
Baltic Pipe is being co-financed by the European Union to create a new inter-European gas corridor supplying gas directly from Norway via Europipe to markets in Denmark, Poland, and adjacent countries.
Gaz-System earlier this year hired Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GMBH, part of international DNV GL group, to provide marine warranty surveyor services for the largely subsea natural gas pipeline (OGJ Online, June 29, 2020).
