Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline

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Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Lithuanian border to Riga, Latvia.

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Project Details

• Operator: Energijos Skirstymo Operatorius, Latvijas Gaze
• Owner: Energijos Skirstymo Operatorius, Latvijas Gaze
• Parent Company: Ignitis Group, Gazprom, Marguerite, Uniper
• Current capacity: 2.3 billion cubic meters per year
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 138 kilometers
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1962

Background

Built in 1962, the Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline is the oldest pipeline in Latvia. In 2013 the pipeline's capacity was increased from 5.48 million cubic meters per day to 6.48 million cubic metres per day from Lithuania to Latvia, and 6.24 million cubic metres per day from Latvia to Lithuania. The total cost of the enhancement was 29.6 million euros, of which 5.4 million euros was invested in Lithuania and 24.2 million euros was invested in Latvia. Up to 50 percent of the project cost was co-financed with funds from the European Commission’s European Energy Program for Recovery.

In 2014, Lietuvos Dujos was merged into Energijos Skirstymo Operatorius, a subsidiary of the Lithuanian state-owned Ignitis Group.

Expansion Project Details

• Operator: JSC Conexus Baltic Grid, AB Amber Grid
• Parent Company: Augstsprieguma Tīkls, MM Capital Partners, EPSO-G
• Proposed capacity: Additional 0.575 billion cubic meters per year
• Length: 0 km additions
• Status: Construction
• Start Year: 2025
• Cost: €10.2 million (US$11.6 million)
  • Lithuania's part: €4.7 million
  • Latvian part: €5.5 million

Proposed Expansion Background

In July 2019 the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) provided a €4.9 million grant to increase the pressurization of the pipeline and increase its capacity by 25% (0.575 bcm/y), covering half of each country's cost. The capacity expansion project is expected to be online by 2024 and will facilitate imports from Klaipeda LNG Terminal and also enhance connectivity with Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL).

The project also received a €147,785 CEF grant in 2017 to cover the cost of a Feasibility Study and Cost-Benefit Analysis for the expansion.

The Expansion project is sometimes referred to at the Enhancement of Latvia-Lithuania interconnection (ELLI). The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas project codes for the expansion are TRA-F-342 (Lithuania's part) and TRA-F-382 (Latvian part) The project's PCI code is 8.2.1.

Construction works for the Latvian part of the project include:

• Pipeline Rīga-Panevezys
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to Pressure Reducing Station (GRS) Daugmale and connection to main pipeline"
  • "Rebuilding of connecting point to pipeline Rīga-Inčukalna UGS II line"
  • "Rebuilding of branch pipeline to GRS Baldone"
• Pipelines Rīga-Inčukalna UGS I and II line
  • "Two segments rebuilding from pig receiving unit till the branch to GRS Rīga-1"
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Zaķumuiža and connections to pipelines Rīga-Inčukalna UGS I and II line"
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Vangaži and connections to pipelines Rīga-Inčukalna UGS I and II line"
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Krimulda"
  • "Rebuilding of two segments from pig launcher to connection to Inčukalna UGS"
• Pipelines Valdaj-Pskov-Rīga and Izborsk-Inčukalna UGS
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Palsmane and connection to pipeline Valdaj-Pskov-Rīga"
  • "Rebuilding of rider at the valve No.427 (part from pipeline Valdaj-Pskov-Riga)"
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Ezerciems and connection to pipelines Valdaj-Pskov-Rīga and Izborsk-Inčukalna UGS"
• Pipeline Vireši-Tallin
  • "Rebuilding of connections to pipelines Valdaj-Pskov-Rīga and Izborsk-Inčukalna UGS"
  • "Rebuilding of branch line to GRS Valmiera-1 and connection to main pipeline"
  • "Rebuilding of valves T5 un T6 node"

In ENTSOG's 2022 TYNDP project tables, the project is listed as having a post-FID maturity, and is expected to be commissioned in 2025.

EU Project of Common Interest

According to the European Commission, its EU "Project of Common Interest" (PCI) approval for the Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline project includes the following elements: "'Enhancement of Latvia-Lithuania interconnection' aims to increase the overall cross-border interconnection capacity between the gas systems of Latvia and Lithuania. It will integrate the gas and energy markets in the Baltic Sea region with the internal EU energy market which will contribute to the improvement of market competition and security of gas supply. The PCI will include a number of infrastructure elements. The project provides, on the Latvian side, the reconstruction of the existing pipelines in order to increase the maximal allowed pressure to 50 bar in gas transmission system, as well as, on the Lithuanian side, the upgrade of the existing gas metering station in Kiemenai and readjustment of Panevezys compressor station piping. These infrastructure elements will allow removing possible bottlenecks and reaching a daily throughput capacity of 131 GWh/d (LT->LV) and 120 GWh/d (LV->LT)." Approval opens the door for receiving public funds for the project.

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External articles

Wikipedia also has an article on Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection (Lithuania-Latvia Interconnection Gas Pipeline). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].