Europipe II


Europipe II is a natural gas pipeline from the Kårstø processing plant north of Stavanger to a receiving terminal at Dornum in Germany. It came on stream on 1 October 1999.

Route

It starts from Kårstø processing plant and runs about onshore from Kårstø to Vestre Bokn. From there, the offshore pipeline runs through Norwegian, Danish and German sectors of the North Sea. The German onshore section is long. At Dornum the gas is supplied into the Netra gas pipeline, which runs to Salzwedel in eastern Germany.

Technical description

The diameter of pipeline is and the capacity is 24 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. Most of the gas is supplied from Statoil's Åsgard, Sleipner East/West, Gullfaks and Statfjord fields.
The Europipe II pipeline was laid by Semac I, Castoro Sei and Solitaire pipe-laying ships. It was commissioned in 1999 and it cost 9.6 billion NOK. The pipeline is operated by Gassco, the technical service provider is Statoil.