Trans-Europa-Naturgas-Pipeline
The Trans -Europe natural gas pipeline, short TENP, is a built in its basic configuration level in the years 1972 to 1974 natural gas pipeline from the German - Dutch border near Aachen on the German- Swiss border near Schworstadt. It serves to transport large quantities of natural gas from the Netherlands to Italy and Switzerland as well as for domestic supply of natural gas in the touched by the line progression federal states of North Rhine -Westphalia, Rhineland -Palatinate and Baden- Württemberg and is the most important north-south axis of the European gas composite system.
History and Infrastructure
The TENP transport system has a length of 500 kilometers and runs from Aachen starting by Eifel, Hunsrück, Palatinate Forest and Karlsruhe along the Rhine Graben after Schworstadt (east of Rheinfelden ). Since 1978, the TENP was continuously extended by the growing demand for transport. The transport system currently consists of a pipe with a nominal diameter of 950 or 900 mm (DN 950 and DN 900) and a parallel second pipe with a nominal diameter of 1000 or 900 mm (DN 1000 and DN 900), who moved in pieces since 1978 were. The full parallelization was completed in October 2006. The TENP transport system has four compressor stations in Stolberg ( Rhineland), Mittelbrunn ( Landstuhl ), Schwarzach (Rhein Münster) and Hügelheim ( Freiburg im Breisgau).
In Stolberg the TENP transport system is connected to a to Zeebrugge (Belgium ) and from there line leading to the United Kingdom ( " Interconnector " ), in Mittelbrunn with the transport system of the MEGAL ( MEGAL Central European Gas Pipeline Company ), via the Russian natural gas from the German -Czech border at Waidhaus in the Federal Republic and France is transported.
Company
Owner of the transport system is the Trans- Europe Natural Gas Pipeline GmbH & Co. KG, Essen. Partners ( limited partners ) of the TENP GmbH & Co. KG Open Grid Europe and the Belgian network operator Fluxys. Fluxys acquired the share in September 2011 by the Italian oil company ENI. Originally the TENP transport system was a joint project of E.ON Gas Transportation Company (predecessor of Open Grid Europe ) and ENI.