Endesa Gas will build a new, 24 kilometre natural gas pipeline in the provinces of Huesca and Zaragoza, between Velilla de Cinca and Mequinenza. Investment in this project will total Euro 4.9 million.
Construction will take place in two stages: the first between Velilla del Cinca and Fraga and the second between Fraga and Mequinenza.
The first stage of construction is scheduled to begin in October once the fruit harvest has ended.
The first stage of the project calls for the installation of a 10.8 kilometre line of steel pipe measuring 12 inches in diameter. Construction is expected to last three months. This first stage will allow the current LNG plants supplying the town of Fraga and its industrial park to be dismantled starting in February 2008.
The second phase is for a 13.2 kilometre line, with a diameter of 12 inches, between the towns of Fraga and Mequinenza with construction set to begin in October 2008. The pipe would be operational within three months, meaning that Mequinenza will have piped natural gas in 2009.

This pipeline will allow for the expansion of Aragon’s natural gas pipe and transmission infrastructure to meet the expected increase in demand and eliminate the satellite liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants currently in use in the area.

The project is part of Endesa’s construction plans for gas transmission pipelines designed to supply piped natural gas in the provinces of Huesca and Zaragoza, in accordance with a Collaboration Agreement signed with the government of Aragon.