ENTSOG South-North Corridor GRIP 2017 - Main Report

2. Deodorisation plant: The plant will reduce the odorant in the gas (THT coming from France) to a maximum of 2mg/m³, and ensure the gas delivered to

Germany is compliant with the German Market rules. Following major developments have occurred in 2016:

– – A small-scale (pilot) deodorisation plant has been tested and allowed to confirm all key hypotheses and helped to fine-tune the envisaged operation modes. – – In parallel, the tender for the FEED (front end engineering design) of the deodorisation plant has been prepared and the tender procedure has been launched in October 2016 allowing TENP KG to select the remaining bidders by early 2017. – – Finally, the final plant location has been validated by TENP KG and already discussed with permitting authorities in order to ensure a good alignment with all actors. The focus for 2017 will be to ensure a timely completion of the FEED and prepare the EPC tender package while in parallel further supporting the permitting process for the envisaged plant location. 3. Mittelbrunn Compressor Station: The works will ensure more flexibility for gas transfer from the TENP to the MEGAL both in forward and reverse flow. The goal is to get the modifications implemented by 2020. Therefore, a feasibility study will be conducted in the first semester 2017 while the second semester will be used to further develop the basic design of the envisaged modifications. Finally, Fluxys TENP has also been granted 9.9 million € EU-grants (1.2 million € for study and 8.7 million € for works) in order to support the project which is PCI labelled. The deodorisation plant to be built in Germany will be the first in Europe able to handle large gas volumes in order to remove the THT content. This plant is a key innovation for the European industry since it leverages on extended research studies, on detailed engineering design as well as on the extended tests carried out by Fluxys TENP in 2015 and 2016 in a pilot plant installed in Krummhorn. This pilot plant is a smaller version of the industrial deodo plant which allowed to test all modes and expected behaviour of the plant. Besides that, it allowed to confirm the envisaged design and to fine-tune some envisaged operational modes.

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South-North Corridor GRIP 2017