Gaz-System completes strategic gas pipeline and secures three more key investments

Gaz-System, Poland’s transmission operator, has completed the construction of the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Racibórz gas pipeline. In Southern Poland, the company commissioned a 37-kilometre-long pipeline with a diameter of 1000 millimetres. The new infrastructure significantly increases access to natural gas in the Silesian and Opole regions and enables the connection of the new Rybnik gas and steam power block, with a capacity of over 880 megawatts (MW), to the network. It can supply energy to up to two million households.

The pipeline, together with the Racibórz – Rybnik pipeline and the Rybnik block connection, forms a network over 80 kilometres long.

“I would like to emphasise that the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Racibórz gas pipeline is another important infrastructure investment in southern Poland, implemented by our company under the ‘Coal to gas’ programme,” said Elżbieta Kramek, Vice-President of GAZ-SYSTEM. “In December 2024, we completed the construction of the Oświęcim – Tworzeń gas pipeline. The financial support provided by the European Union’s FEnIKS (European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate and Environment) programme is crucial for the implementation of these projects.”

On the sidelines of the pipeline launch, agreements were signed to secure co-financing for three additional investments under the FEnIKS 2021–2027 Programme: two gas pipelines and the Lwówek Gas Compressor Station. The total value of these investments is 1.5 billion zlotys, with EU support totalling 884.5 million zlotys.

Construction of the Lewin Brzeski – Nysa gas pipeline, which will connect with the North-South Corridor and serve as a new power supply source for the southern region of Opole Voivodeship, with EU funding of 197.8 million zlotys;

Construction of the Lwówek Gas Compressor Station, implemented under the Transit Gas Pipeline System Programme (SGT), which will integrate the national transmission system with transit infrastructure, significantly increasing the security and efficiency of gas supplies, with EU funding of 559.9 million zlotys;

Construction of the Wężerów – Przewóz gas pipeline (DN700) together with accompanying infrastructure, which will improve the capacity and reliability of the transmission network, with EU funding of 126.8 million zlotys.

Gaz-System is also building 60 kilometres of new pipelines around Warsaw.