West Austria gas pipeline
The West-Austria-Gasleitung (WAG) is a gas pipeline in Austria between the Austrian natural gas hub near Baumgarten an der March near the border with Slovakia and Oberkappel on the border with Germany. The pipeline is operated by Gas Connect Austria (previously known as BOG Baumgarten-Oberkappel Gasleitungsgesellschaft ), a joint venture between OMV AG (share in capital: 51%) and AS Gasinfrastructure GmbH (49%), a joint venture of Allianz Capital Partners and Snam operated.
Course and technique
The pipeline runs from Baumgarten always north of the Danube over the Waldviertel and Mühlviertel towards the west, where it crosses the border to Germany in Oberkappel and meets the MEGAL -Süd. In Oberkappel well as links to the south to exist Burghausen leading Penta West .
The 245.146 km long pipeline with a diameter of DN 800 mm will be supplemented for around 140 km by a second parallel pipeline with a nominal width of DN1200. It can be operated in both directions with a nominal pressure of 70 bar. The main direction of transport is from east to west, Russian natural gas to Austria, Germany and France with a capacity of more than 1 million Nm³ / h (at 0 ° C) or about 700,000 Nm³ / h in the opposite direction (as of Dec. 2011). There are compressor stations at WAG in Baumgarten, Kirchberg am Wagram (since 2008), Rainbach im Mühlkreis (since 2008), Neustift / Oberkappel (since 2011).
history
The pipeline with a diameter of DN 800 mm was constructed in the 1970s and commissioned in 1980.
WAG Plus 600
Under the project name WAG Plus 600, with the expansion of compressor stations and parallel pipelines from 2006, capacity was expanded from the 1st quarter of 2011. At the same time, the expansion of Penta-West was completed. "Phase 1" was the construction of the loop line from Kirchberg to Lichtenau and from March to Baumgarten in the period from May 2007 to May 2008.
WAG Expansion 3
Under the project name “WAG Expansion 3”, three additional parallel lines with a length of 63.2 km were gradually built from August 1, 2011 to November 2013, with the aim of increasing the transport capacity by 230,000 Nm³ / h (in each direction).
Section 1 with a length of 18.2 km between Enzersfeld and Sierndorf was started on August 1, 2011. Construction work on the 27.6 km long section 2 ran from June 4, 2012 until the end of the year. It leads from Lichtenau, Rastenfeld, Waldhausen to Großgöttfritz and on to Zwettl, Groß Gerungs to Rapottenstein. Section 3 between Rainbach and Bad Leonfelden with a length of 17.2 km was started in autumn 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ OMV: The gas infrastructure (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ Baumgarten natural gas station. (No longer available online.) OMV, August 2010, archived from the original on January 30, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ OMV-WAG Plus 600
- ^ WAG Plus 600 (OMV undated, accessed December 18, 2011).
- ↑ NATURAL GAS LINE WAG PLUS 600, PHASE 1. Accessed on April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ WAG Expansion 3 natural gas pipeline; Section Enzersfeld - Bad Leonfelden (Lot B): 63.2 km, DN 1200, PN 90.Retrieved on April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ project profile; Project WAG Expansion 3. (No longer available online.) Gas Connect Austria, archived from the original on April 23, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
