Lithuania Tenders for Polish Link

Lithuania’s transmission system operator (TSO) Amber Grid has announced a public tender for the procurement of pipes and the building work for the link with Poland (GIPL). The contractor will be responsible for the construction in Lithuania.

GIPL is one of the European Union’s projects of common-interest (PCI), which Amber Grid will build with Polish TSO Gaz-System. The purpose of the GIPL project is to integrate the gas markets of the Baltic States into a single EU gas market, to diversify the gas supply sources and to improve the gas supply safety. According to EU documents the initial capacity from Poland to Lithuania will be 2.4bn m³/year and from Lithuania to Poland it will 1.0bn m³/yr.

Applications for the linepipe tender must be submitted within 30 days and for the building work within 70 days, said Amber Grid.

“This procurement is not only the most valuable in the history of the company, it is also a project of great regional importance as the gas transmission systems of the Baltic States will be connected into integrated European transmission network,” said Amber Grid CEO Saulius Bilys.

The total projected length of GIPL is 522 km of which 165km will be in Lithuania. The 700-mm line will connect gas compressor stations in Jauniunai i Lithuania with Rembelszczyzna, near the Polish capital Warsaw. 

Linas Jegelevicius