NETG Pipeline

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NETG Pipeline is a gas pipeline in Germany.

Location

NETG runs from Elten on the Dutch border to Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. It connects with the Dutch gas system at Elten, and with METG Pipeline and Werne-Gernsheim Gas Pipeline at Paffrath (a district of Bergisch Gladbach).

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Project Details

• Operators: Nordrheinische Erdgastransportleitungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
• Owners: Nordrheinische Erdgastransportleitungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
• Parent company: Macquarie Group Limited (50%), Open Grid Europe (50%)
• Current capacity:
• Length: 84 mi / 135 km
• Diameter: 1000 mm
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1967

Background

NETG is an abbreviation for Nordrheinische Erdgastransport­leitungsgesellschaft, or "North Rhine Gas Transport Pipeline Company." The NETG pipeline was commissioned in 1967 and serves to transport natural gas from the Netherlands to western and south-western Germany. NETG is a joint venture of Thyssengas and Open Grid Europe.

The pipeline system today comprises two parallel lines with a pipe diameter of up to one meter (DN 1000) over a length of around 140 km. It is used to transport natural gas from the Netherlands to the adjacent infrastructure within Germany. Several pipelines branch off from NETG's natural gas transport pipeline system, via which the large cities and industrial customers on the Lower Rhine and in the Rhineland, among others, are supplied with natural gas.

In order to expand the available capacities, the transport line of the NETG natural gas pipeline system was supplemented by a second, parallel pipeline over the past few decades. Around 24 kilometers are missing on the section between Voigtslach and Paffrath, a district of Bergisch Gladbach, for complete parallelization.

The gas network development plan (NEP) 2018 , which is valid throughout Germany , describes and approves that this gap closure will be carried out with the new "NETG line Voigtslach-Paffrath" transmission line by 2022.