Half-owned by Gazprom, the OPAL pipeline runs 470 km from Germany’s Baltic Sea coast to Germany’s southern border with the Czech Republic.

Half-owned by Gazprom, the OPAL pipeline runs 470 km from Germany’s Baltic Sea coast to Germany’s southern border with the Czech Republic. Its 36.5 billion cubic meters a year capacity is slightly more than the capacity of Nord Stream 1. Although the €1 billion pipelines were commissioned in 2011, Poland argues that current EU energy law does not allow for monopolies.