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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 19:54
ILF Polska to serve as construction manager for undersea part of Balticconnector
The Polish company will act as EPCM (Engineering, Procurement
and Construction Management) manager for the construction of the 80 kilometer
long undersea gas pipeline section between Paldiski, Estonia and Inkoo,
Finland.
ILF Polska's scope
of services under the contract includes setting out the design documentation,
project management, contract management, managing procedures for services and
deliverables, construction works management, commissioning and start-up
support, Elering said.
The task will be carried out in collaboration with a
subcontractor, the Australian company Subsea
Engineering Associates Pty Ltd, for which this is the second offshore
pipeline EPCM project in the Baltic Sea region.
The tender for the contract to build the gas interconnection
is expected to be announced in the first half of 2017. Balticconnector will be
taken into use by 2020.
The cost of the Balticconnector investment will be around
250 mln euros and 75 % of this amount will be co-funded from the European
Union's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
The total lenth of interconnection will be approximately 150
kilometers. The undersea pipeline will have a diameter of 50 centimeters and
the pressure of gas inside it will be up to 80 bars.