UK-Ireland Interconnector Gas Pipeline
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UK-Ireland Interconnector, known as Interconnector 1 or IC1, is a gas pipeline running between Scotland and Ireland.[1] A reverse flow, bi-directional development of the pipeline is proposed.
Location
The pipeline runs from Moffat, Scotland to Loughshinny, Ireland.[2][3]
Pipeline Details
- Operator: Gas Networks Ireland
- Owner: Gas Networks Ireland[4]
- Parent: Ervia
- Parent:
- Capacity:
- Length: 204.0 km[5]
- Diameter: 24, 30 inches[3]
- Status: Operating[5]
- Start Year: 1991[5]
- Related Projects: UK-Ireland Interconnector 2
Bi-directional project
- Operator: Gas Networks Ireland
- Owner: Gas Networks Ireland[6][7]
- Parent: Ervia
- Capacity:
- Length:
- Cost: €10 million (US$11.4 million)[8]
- Diameter:
- Financing: €571,293 grant from the EU's Connecting Europe Facility[9]
- Status: Shelved
- Start Year:
Background
The first gas flows via the interconnector pipeline connecting the British system at Moffat in Scotland with Ireland took place in March 2016. The interconnector is configured only to allow gas to run from Britain to Ireland. However, exporters are able to nominate virtual reverse flows on the pipeline. The gas is not physically sent to Britain but subtracted from the gas flowing into Ireland. Hence the exports are only possible when sufficient gas is flowing into Ireland.[10]
Gas Networks Ireland intends to make the Moffat interconnection point bi-directional and this project has been included on the EU's Projects of Common Interest (PCI): PCI code 5.1.1.[6] The project was awarded a €571,293 grant from the Connecting Europe Facility in 2016 for a multi-disciplinary study to facilitate the project's implementation.[9]
The bi-directional project was not included in the 5th PCI list published by the European Commission in November 2021, and was not included in ENTSOG's 2022 TYNDP project tables.[11][12] The project is presumed shelved.
Identifiers
The SciGrid IGG dataset refers to the pipeline as INET_PL_2550 and INET_PL_2551.[3]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Natural Gas Pipelines in Europe, Asia, Africa & Middle East, Harvard University, accessed January 2020.
- ↑ European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (October 2020). "TYNDP 2020 - MAP – Transmission" (PDF). ENTSOG. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Diettrich, Pluta, Medrjoubi (July 23, 2020). "The combined IGG gas transmission network data set". DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Pipeline map". Gas Networks Ireland. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Smith, Bee (September 24, 2021). "Pipelines Linear (ED50)". Oil and Gas Authority Open Data. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Physical reverse flow at Moffat, Gas Networks Ireland, accessed Dec. 17, 2020
- ↑ Gas interconnection, European Commission, accessed Dec. 17, 2020
- ↑ Ten Year Network Development Plan 2020 - Annex A - Projects Tables, ENTSOG, accessed Dec. 5, 2021
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Physical reverse flow at Moffat interconnection point (IE/UK), European Commission, accessed Dec. 17, 2020
- ↑ Updated: Irish natural gas exports enter British supply mix, ICIS, May 13, 2016
- ↑ ANNEX to COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... amending Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union list of projects of common interest, European Commission, Nov. 19, 2021
- ↑ "TYNDP | ENTSOG". www.entsog.eu. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
