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INTERCONNECTOR
LINKING NATURAL GAS MARKETS

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.

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RECENT DAILY FLOWS

FLOW DIRECTION

Interconnector daily natural gas flow

Flow data

Historical flows refreshed at 10:00


Flow status symbol. Updated every few minutes, but Low Flow status only updated at 08:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 UKT. Low Flow indicates a forecast flowrate below 15% of capacity.

 


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APPROXIMATE PIPELINE CAPACITY

 
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

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LATEST NEWS

INTERCONNECTOR 2009 PLANNED MAINTENANCE

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.


NEW INTERCONNECTOR 'FLOW TRANSITION RULES'

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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