THE Finnish gas company Gasum is planning to construct a gas pipeline from Estonia to Finland, and is anticipating no problems on the subsea portion of the route under the Baltic Sea. The line would have a capacity of 2bn cum/yr, and cost around $134 million. Gasum has said that it is to start an environmental assessment for the line during the second half of the year, and expects the report to be ready in 2008; the gas pipeline would be operational in 2011 at the earliest, the company said.
Other companies taking part in the project are Gazprom, Estonian Eesti Gaas, and Latvijas Gaze of Latvia. Gasum said the new line, called Balticconnector, would offer an alternative route for gas from Russia via Baltic countries to Finland and, if needed, via Finland to the Baltic. The pipe would also connect Finland to Latvia's Inchukalns gas storage, it added.
Gasum, which is owned by Fortum, Gazprom, E.ON Ruhrgas, as well as the Finnish state, currently has a pipeline for gas imports from Russia through the SE of the country.
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