Energy

Connecting Europe Facility
ENERGY
Member States involved:
United Kingdom
Implementation schedule
Start date: August 2014
End date: December 2017
PCI Twinning of Southwest Scotland onshore
system between Cluden & Brighouse Bay
(UK)
5.2-0042-UK-P-M-14
Part of Project of Common Interest 5.2
Budget:
Estimated total cost of the action:
€92,860,796
Maximum EU contribution:
€33,764,185
Percentage of EU support: 36.4%
Beneficiary:
Gas Networks Ireland (UK)
www.gasnetworks.ie
Additional information:
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/infrastructu
re/index_en.htm
Innovation and Networks Executive
Agency (INEA)
http://inea.ec.europa.eu
Agency for the Cooperation of Energy
Regulators (ACER)
www.acer.europa.eu
European Network of Transmission
System Operators for Gas (ENTSO-G)
www.entsog.eu
The Action will implement PCI 5.2 "Twinning of Southwest Scotland onshore
System between Cluden and Brighouse Bay in the United Kingdom (UK)".
The scope of the current Action is the construction of the remaining 50 km
system of transmission pipeline, with a 914 mm diameter that will operate
as a high pressure transmission pipeline and transport an additional quantity
of 1.1 bcm/year of natural gas to Ireland. The pipeline will be connected into
the existing national gas network.
The Action aims at: i) addressing the current pressure restriction in the
onshore system; ii) completing a dual pipeline system between Ireland and
the United Kingdom; and iii) removing security of supply concerns,
increasing thus the operational pressures by around twenty percent and gas
capacity by around ten percent in the network. There are a number of
activities associated with the Action's implementation, such as
environmental studies, material procurement and construction, leading to
the commissioning of the pipeline and the successful completion of the
Action. While for the 50 km section of pipeline there are valid planning
consents, the foreseen local deviation of 7km at Dumfries will be subject to
the consent of the competent environmental authorities.
The completion of the Action will, as a result, reduce compressor fuel gas
usage and increase pipeline storage and technical capacity, bringing about
environmental benefits through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Action is ongoing.
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