Polish, Ukrainian TSOs Complete Feasibility Study for Interconnector

The Polish and Ukrainian transmission system operators (TSO) – Gaz-System and Ukrtransgaz - have completed the feasibility study for the interconnection integrating transmission systems of both countries. 

‘Under the cooperation agreement signed between Gaz-System and Ukrtransgaz in December 2014, the feasibility study will be used as the basis for further decisions to develop cross-border transmission capacity between Poland and Ukraine’ reads a note released by Poland’s Gaz-System on Monday.  

The planned Gas Interconnection Poland–Ukraine includes the construction of a new gas pipeline between the Hermanowice gas node on the Polish side and Bliche Volytsia on the Ukrainian side. The total length of the pipeline is around 112 km.

‘The Parties expect that the project can be completed in 2019/2020’ explains the Polish TSO.

The new interconnection should allow for the increase of the export capacity of gas from Poland to Ukraine from 5 bcm/year to 8 bcm/year.  

Gaz System wrote it has already started the project in the Polish transmission system as part of the North–South Gas Corridor, involving the expansion of a transmission system in western, southern and eastern Poland.

Several regional players are holding negotiations in these days.

‘H.E. Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, will pay a working visit to Turkey on 20 October 2015’ the Turkish Government wrote in a separate communiqué.

On Friday, Latvia and Lithuania hammered out a Memorandum to work on integrating their gas markets, committing to provide participants with access to infrastructure. 

Also on Friday, the Wall Street Journal wrote that the Nord Stream II consortium has started the process of hiring contractors.