UGS Jemgum

The highly flexible cavern storage



The Jemgum salt cavern storage facility

The Jemgum salt cavern storage facility in Lower Saxony is currently under construction. The first caverns, with a working gas capacity of up to 300 million cubic meters, will be ready for use as soon as 2013. After the final phase of construction, which is planned for completion in 2016, the storage facility will have a working gas capacity of 1.2 billion m³ and a withdrawal rate of 1.2 million m³/h.

The storage facility will be connected to the WINGAS TRANSPORT GmbH & Co. KG (WTKG) transport grid, which is part of the GASPOOL market area cooperation. Furthermore, WINGAS is also planning to build a link to the market area of Gas Transport Services B.V. (GTS) in the Netherlands, although this project still has to be officially approved. This means the storage products offered in the Jemgum facility can be used with flexibility in two attractive market areas.

A connection to the GTS system by the time the storage facility comes on stream is planned. The required entry/exit capacities could be applied for from GTS as part of the Integrated Open Season (IOS) by GTS and Gasunie Deutschland in 2009. More information on the IOS is available at www.integratedopenseason.com.

Website UGS Jemgum

More information on the significance of the natural gas storage facility and details of the Jemgum project at www.speicher-jemgum.de