Siberian Energy for Germany

JAGAL stands for Jamal-Gas-Anbindungs-Leitung (Jamal gas connection network) and simultaneously, therefore, for supply reliability in Germany. Why? The JAMAL-Europa pipeline of the Gazprom transports Russian natural gas to the Brandenburg compressor station Mallnow, eleven kilometres north of Frankfurt/Oder, where the long-distance pipeline JAGAL starts. In Mallnow the gas is fed into the WINGAS TRANSPORT grid.
Construction of the 338-kilometre-long JAGAL began with tunnelling under the River Oder in September 1995, and was completed with tunnelling under the Elbe in September 1999 with a similar technical challenge.

First, in September 1995, WINGAS laid a double duct between Lebus (north of Frankfurt Oder) and Górzyca (Poland) under the Oder in association with EuRoPol Gaz. WINGAS was solely responsibible for the technical realisation of this project. Some four years later, one of that year's largest single construction projects was launched: tunnelling under the Elbe with the aid of a 170-metre-long duct. With that, JAGAL was complete.

JAGAL was constructed in several sections:

JAGAL I runs for the first 11 km from the Oder (Polish border) to Mallnow. This first section was put into operation in autumn 1996. The second part of JAGAL I, with a length of 100 km, stretches from Mallnow to Baruth, also in Brandenburg. This second construction phase was completed in 1997.
JAGAL II extends 225 km from Baruth to the Thuringian town of Rückersdorf, where it meets STEGAL. WINGAS began construction of JAGAL II in February 1999; in October 1999, the long-distance gas pipeline went into operation.

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