ICIS: Brandov natural gas cross-border capacity in demand as OPAL decision delayed

The European Commission has made no decision on whether to allow Russian producer Gazprom a 100% third party access (TPA) exemption for the OPAL pipeline and talks will continue with the new commission team, Gazprom said on Wednesday.

The decision had already been postponed twice and was most recently expected by the end of October.

OPAL is the 36 billion cubic metre (bcm)/year pipeline which was commissioned in 2012. It takes Russian gas from the landing point of the Nord Stream pipeline at Greifswald in Germany down to the Brandov/Hora sv Kateriny point at the Czech border.
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