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, 12 March 2012

Heater at Bacton temporarily unavailable

BBL Company would like to inform you that one of the four heaters on the BBL-facilities at Bacton is not available in the coming months due to a technical failure. The heaters are necessary to heat the BBL-gas before it can enter the National Grid-system. BBL Company is able to meet all its contractual obligations towards BBL-shippers with the three heaters presently in operation. As a result there is no impact on gas flows. The current expectation is that the fourth heater will be available again by the month of June 2012.

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