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Interconnector (UK) Limited operates a sub sea gas
pipeline and terminal facilities to provide a strategic bi-directional
link between the UK and continental European energy markets.
The Interconnector system comprises compression terminals at Bacton
in UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium connected by a 235 kilometre pipeline.
It is currently capable of transporting 25.5 billion cubic metres of
gas per annum from Zeebrugge to Bacton and 20.0 bcm per annum in the
opposite direction.
Interconnector Shippers are able to reach the gas
markets of continental Europe and the UK by transporting and/or trading
between the two hubs linked by the Interconnector pipeline.
The net amount of gas flowing each day is dependent on the quantities
nominated by individual shippers. Shippers nominate their requirements
to Interconnector who manage the process of validation and aggregation
which determines the daily quantity of energy to be transported into
and out of the system.
| |
Volume |
Energy |
BCM/yr |
MCM/day |
kWh/day |
Therms/day |
| UK Export Mode |
20 |
58 |
610,000,000 |
21,000,000 |
| UK Import Mode |
25.5 |
74 |
780,000,000 |
27,000,000 |
25 March 2009: Interconnector (UK) Limited confirmed today that
the UK-Belgium gas interconnector will be shut down for planned annual
maintenance for a period of 15 days commencing 06:00 hours (local time)
Tuesday 8 September 2009 and ending 06:00 hours (local time) Wednesday
23 September 2009.
28 October 2008: “Following discussion and agreement with Shippers,
Interconnector today introduced two further improvements to the process
which governs decisions about the flow direction of the Interconnector:-
(i) a later day-ahead decision time (allowing more up to date nomination
information to be used in the decision process) and
(ii) a second, confirmation stage (for both ahead of day and within
day decisions) in which Shippers’ latest nominations are re-checked,
to confirm that the transition is still required, before proceeding
with the physical operations to implement the transition.
The new rules are described in more detail on the Information Provision
page
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