Uithuizen Gas Plant

The Uithuizen Gas Plant is a main natural gas terminal in the Netherlands.

Uithuizen Gas Plant
NGT Uithuizen
Shown within the Netherlands
Alternative names	Gas Treatment Station Uithuizen
General information
Type	Gas terminal
Location	Uithuizen, Het Hogeland, Netherlands
Address	Middenweg 2, 9981 VG, Uithuizen
Coordinates	53.4593°N 6.6948°E / 53.4593; 6.6948
Current tenants	Neptune Energy
Completed	1975
Client	NGT

History

The plant has been running since 1975. The gas field was discovered in 1970. Neptune Energy now run the site.^[1] Neptune Energy have run two natural gas pipelines in the UK. Neptune Energy has also ran the pipeline to the Balgzand Gas Plant, since 2008, which has Dutch, British, Danish and German natural gas.^[2]

Structure

The site is close to the most-northern part of the Netherlands, in the north-east of the country.

Operation

Tanks of gas condensate at Roodeschool railway station, in December 2016

Natural gas reaches the processing plant via 470km of pipelines, from 75 separate platforms.^[3][4]

From the site, the gas is distributed around the Netherlands by Gasunie (Gas Transport Services B.V.). Condensate is transferred along an 8km pipeline to Roodeschool railway station.^[5]

Over a year the plant processes 7 billion normal cubic meters of natural gas.

See also

• List of oil and gas fields of the North Sea