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, 31 January 2012

Heater at Bacton available again

We would like to inform you that the heater that broke down in January is available again, which means that all four heaters are operational. The repair activities have been finished successfully according to schedule.

The heaters at Bacton are necessary to heat the BBL gas before it can enter the National Grid network. During the repair activities BBL Company was able to meet all its contractual obligations towards BBL shippers with the three heaters in operation. There was no impact on gas flows.

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