50 years of safe and reliable gas transport

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50 years of safe and reliable gas transport

On 15 May 1975, the first Dutch North Sea gas flowed ashore via the pipeline of Noordgastransport (NGT), a major player in the Dutch infrastructure, in Uithuizen. NGT has been transporting safe and reliable natural gas from the North Sea to the Dutch mainland for 50 years. Since its inception in 1975, NGT has maintained an impressive system availability of 99,5%. For the whole article, please click here.

Historical photo: construction of the NGT pipeline in the early 1970s.