AN INTRODUCTION

BBL Company is a joint venture (a limited partnership) of three partners:

  • Gasunie BBL B.V. (60%)
  • E.ON Ruhrgas BBL B.V. (20%)
  • Fluxys BBL B.V. (20%)

BBL Company was established on 9 July 2004 in order to design, construct, operate and exploit the BBL pipeline for the transmission of natural gas from Balgzand in the Netherlands to Bacton in the United Kingdom. The approval of the project by partners was based on three long term transmission agreements with GasTerra (the Netherlands), E.ON Ruhrgas (Germany) and Wingas (Germany) for transport of gas from Balgzand to Bacton. After a construction period of just two years transport of gas to the UK started on 1 December 2006.

LATEST NEWS

Groningen, 27 July 2010

More details on planned BBL maintenance in September 2010

In December 2009 BBL Company has communicated via its website that planned maintenance will be carried out in the first half of September 2010. More information is now available about the exact timing and the level of available capacity.

The maintenance work will be carried out from gas day Monday 6 September 2010 up to and including gas day Wednesday 8 September 2010. There will be no gas flows for the whole maintenance period.

The work will start on Monday 6 September 2010 at 07:00 LET. At 07:00 LET on Thursday 9 September 2010, the work will be finished and the gas flow will be resumed.

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