Georgia-Ukraine-EU gas pipeline

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The Georgia-Ukraine-EU (GUEU) gas pipeline is a proposed pipeline project to transport natural gas from the Caspian region to Ukraine and further to Poland. The pipeline would branch off from the South Caucasus Pipeline near Tbilisi and run for approximately 100 kilometers via Georgia to Supsa at the Black Sea. From there a 650 km long offshore section on the seabed of the Black Sea will continue to Crimea near Feodosia in Ukraine. The offshore section will be linked to Ukraine's transit system by 200 km long onshore section. The alternative plan proposes to prolong the offshore pipeline to Romania.

At the first stage the initial capacity of pipeline will be 8 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually. At this stage the pipeline would be supplied from the Shah Deniz gas field from the Azerbaijan's Caspian offshore sector. Later it could be possible to connect GUEU with planned Trans-Caspian Gas Pipelines. In this case the second leg of pipeline will be laid at the seabed and the total capacity of pipeline will increase to 24-32 bcm of gas annually.

The diameter of Gergion section will be 42 inches and 24 inches for the offshore section. In Crimea most likely existing 20-inch diameter pipeline will be used.

The project is promoted by a New York-based consortium, led by Pipeline Systems Engineering (PSE) and Radon-Ishizumi consulting and engineering companies.