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Sunday, 01.12.2024, 17:38
Polish PANGAZ to advise Balticconnector gas link land procurement for EUR 2.7 mln
Elering on Thursday signed an agreement with PANGAZ, the company to advise Elering on developing the technical solutions and organizing the "turnkey" construction tenders of the 55-kilometer Kiili-Paldiski gas pipeline and the Paldiski and Puiatu compressor stations, Elering said.
The procurements will be launched this fall according to the documents to
be drawn up by PANGAZ and the results
of the procurements are to be determined in the first quarter of 2018.
PANGAZ is also set to
help organize the tenders for the services of owner supervision during the
construction of those objects and is to provide owner's engineer services to Elering, which will last until the
expected end of the guarantee of the Kiili-Paldiski pipeline and the compressor
stations in 2022.
As the owner's engineer PANGAZ offers
engineering know-how during the designing and construction of the land objects
of Balticconnector and assess the
accordance of the operating options of the finished objects with the
procurement and design documentation by making amendment proposals and
monitoring their implementation, if necessary.
PANGAZ has
previously participated in a gas link project between Poland and the Czech
Republic, which allows the company to share valuable gas-related know-how
during the construction of Balticconnector
concerning, for example, the construction and operation of the gas compressor
stations.
The underwater portion of the gas link will be built by Elering in cooperation with the Finnish
state-owned company Baltic Connector Oy.
Balticconnector is to connect the natural gas networks of Estonia and Finland with a
150-kilometer gas transmission pipeline, of which 80 kilometers will be located
at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Compressor stations will be built in both
countries for the transport of gas in the pipe. Along with strengthening the
gas connection between Estonia and Latvia, the Balticconnector project is expected to cost approximately 300
million euros. The European Union is set to support the project with more than
200 million euros.