ICIS: Czech Nord Stream natural gas link Gazela flowing at full capacity

The Gazela natural gas pipeline, which links Nord Stream's onshore extension OPAL with southern Germany, intersecting the Czech Republic, is flowing at almost 100% of its 90 million cubic metre/day capacity, Radek Bencik, managing director of Czech transmission system operator (TSO) NET4GAS, said on Tuesday.

He told ICIS at a Prague conference, devoted to the Czech and Slovak natural gas industry, that gas flowing via the Gazela pipe mostly comes from Nord Stream and flows from OPAL to another Nord Stream link, MEGAL.

Gazela has two connections points with the main Czech transit route that takes Russian gas coming via Ukraine and Slovakia further to Europe, as well as the Czech network, which makes it possible in theory for some of that gas to also enter Gazela. Gazela is exempt from third-party access requirements.  MORE