ALPINE to build a gas pipeline ensuring the supply of natural gas to central European countries
The project is appraised at 76.7 million euro. The energy division of ALPINE Bau GmbH will be tackling two sections of the extension of the Gazelle gas pipeline to the Czech Republic, in a joint venture with the Belgian firm DENYS. This time around the client is Net4Gas, the Czech Republic's state natural gas supply operator and a member of GTE (Gas Transmission Europe).
With this project, FCC's Austrian subsidiary has secured for itself an important role in European energy projects.
The project is appraised at 76.7 million euro, and it will serve to ensure the supply of natural gas for the countries of central Europe, such as the Czech Republic, and so forestall the recurrence of energy crises like the one that hit two years ago. The Gazelle gas pipeline will be over 105 kilometres long and will consist of two sections, one 52.4 kilometres long and one 53.4 kilometres long.
The Gazelle gas pipeline
These two sections, which together make for a length of 105.8 kilometres, belong to the pipeline section that will cross the Czech Republic from north to south, a 142-kilometre journey, from the OPAL gas pipeline situated south of Germany. The Gazelle pipeline therefore will be part of what is called the "northern transport route", which supplies the old world's natural gas from the Russian province of Tyumen Oblast via the Baltic Sea.
FCC has an industrial division with experience in the sector
FCC has been extremely lively in industrial activity and the energy business. Just as ALPINE has a powerful energy division, FCC Construcción has FCC Industrial, a division newly created by the merger of several FCC companies specializing in these same sectors and formerly all working separately. FCC Industrial takes full advantage of its components' individual experience in areas such as liquefied natural gas storage, gas and oil pipeline construction and power plant construction.