Pipeline breaks Russia’s grip on eastern Europe

Poland and the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – have signed an agreement to build a strategic gas pipeline in an effort to break Russia’s energy stranglehold over the three EU members
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GIPL (Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania)
Length: 534km
Operational: 2019
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Initial capacity: 2.4bn cubic metres of gas a year from Poland to Lithuania, potentially rising to 4bn
Cost: Up to €560 million (EU grants worth €305 million)
Floating natural gas terminal Independence arrives in Klaipeda, Oct 2014

GIPL Existing pipelines
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NORWAY NETHERLANDS DENMARK GERMANY SWEDEN Baltic Sea

POLAND Warsaw Rembelszczyzna
Swinoujscie, Poland: LNG terminal set to receive first shipment from
Qatar in December

UKRAINE BELARUS 

LITHUANIA  Jauniunai Klaipeda, Lithuania: Liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating terminal began receiving deliveries from Norway’s Statoil in early 2015

Vilnius RUS. LATVIA Riga ESTONIA Tallinn RUSSIA FINLAND


100km 60 miles
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Sources: Stratfor, Amber Grid, Gaz-System 
Picture: Getty Image

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