Cluden to Brighouse Bay Gas Pipeline

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Cluden to Brighouse Bay Gas Pipeline is an operating gas pipeline in Scotland, the United Kingdom.

Location

The pipeline runs from Cluden, Dumfries County to Brighouse Bay, Kirkcudbrigth County.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gas Networks Ireland (GNI)
• Owner: Gas Networks Ireland (GNI)
• Parent company: Ervia
• Current capacity: 35 million cubic feet per day
• Length: 31 mi / 50 km
• Cost: €100 million
• Financing: €33.7 million grant from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2018

Background

The pipeline was built at a cost of €100 million and commissioned in December 2018. The pipeline feeds into the Scotland–Northern Ireland Gas Pipeline (SNIP). The project has European Project of Common Interest status, qualifying it for public funding support. In 2014 the project received a €33,764,185 grant from the Connecting Europe Facility.