Estonia-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline

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Estonia-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline, also called the Vireši–Tallinn Pipeline, is an operating natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from Talinn, Estonia, to Rauna, Latvia.

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Project Details

• Operator: EG Võrguteenus; Latvijas Gaze
• Parent Company: EG Võrguteenus; Latvijas Gaze
• Current capacity: 2.5 billion cubic meters per year
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 180.4 miles / 280.4 kilometers
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1992
• Financing: €18,625,000 grant from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility for the interconnection upgrade project

Background

The Vireši–Tallinn gas pipeline began construction in 1988 and was completed in 1991. In Vireši, the pipeline is connected with Izborsk–Inčukalns pipeline, which provides for Estonia access to the Inčukalns gas storage. The pipeline has one compression station in Vireši and one metering station in Karksi. The direction of gas flow is from Latvia to Estonia. There is a plan for an upgrade to allow bidirectional gas flow by 2019. This upgrade project ('Estonia-Latvia gas interconnection enhancement') is a European 'Project of Common Interest' and was awarded a €18,625,000 grant from the Connecting Europe Facility in 2016 for tendering for engineering, procurement and construction of the project, as well as the execution of the construction works and the commissioning of the whole infrastructure.

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External articles

Wikipedia also has an article on Vireši–Tallinn gas pipeline (Vireši–Tallinn gas pipeline). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].