Conversion of Lines 40b, 43, and 60

Lines 40b, 43, and 60 connect Lingen in Emsland with Bad Bentheim in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony and form an important section of the GET H2 hydrogen network currently under construction.

The three line sections cover a total of around 51 kilometers: Line 40b extends over 22 kilometers from the Messingen station southeast of Lingen via the Schepsdorf network node to the Frenswegen station northwest of Nordhorn. Line 43 runs for 11 kilometers from the Schepsdorf station to the Holthausen II station with a connection to bp Lingen, and Pipeline 60 runs for 18 kilometers from the Frenswegen station to the Bentheim station. The pipelines operate at a working pressure of 70 bar. The converted natural gas pipelines are used to transport green hydrogen from Lingen, where hydrogen is to be produced from wind power, to industrial customers in the northern Ruhr area.
The project was implemented by Nowega GmbH and is part of the GET H2 Nukleus project, which is being realized in collaboration with partners OGE, RWE, and Evonik.

Pipelines 40b and 60 have been operational since the successful conversion and are transporting hydrogen.