OGE Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE) is a German gas transmission system operator headquartered in Essen. It plans, operates, and maintains one of the country’s largest high‑pressure natural gas pipeline networks, offering regulated third‑party access for shippers and linking major industrial regions with domestic and cross‑border supply sources, storage sites, and import interfaces.
Serving the chemical and process industries, OGE connects production sites and clusters—particularly in North Rhine‑Westphalia and other industrial corridors—supporting security of supply and system balancing. In line with Germany’s energy transition, OGE is working to adapt its infrastructure for low‑carbon molecules, including participation in initiatives to develop a national hydrogen backbone and to enable CO₂ transport from industrial emitters to storage and utilization hubs. Its activities span network planning and operations, capacity management, metering, and compliance with German and EU regulation.
chemXplore tracks 4 projects involving OGE, of which 3 are active.
OGE's role on them: Owner, EPC, Operator, and Developer.
2 new construction and 1 conversion / repurposing.
Contractors, licensors, and offtakers are recorded on 2 of these 3 projects For subscribers
Targeting: Hydrogen (3), Carbon dioxide (1)
Initial green hydrogen from Lingen delivered via ~120 km pipeline to Evonik’s Marl site, demonstrating an integrated hydrogen value chain and ramp-up toward 200 MW.
Opened a 32‑km Rotterdam hydrogen pipeline, progressed CO₂ and heat projects, boosted LNG capacity, and saw shifting gas flows with higher power‑sector demand.
Five connected CCS projects (Porthos, Aramis, CO₂next, DRC, DSC) will capture, transport and store CO₂ under the North Sea and link industry across the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Cross-border CO₂ pipeline to link North Rhine‑Westphalia industrial clusters to Dutch North Sea storage; target operation 2033 with initial Dutch sections in 2032.
Cross‑border hydrogen link planned between Zevenaar and Elten by 2031, reusing existing gas pipelines; first phase connects the Rhine‑Ruhr region, later southern hubs such as Ludwigshafen
King and minister inaugurated the first pipeline segment. Network planned ~1,200 km via repurposed gas pipelines, linking Dutch industry to Germany and Belgium; first plant now connected.
CEO-led alliance published a white paper urging governments to boost demand certainty, lower electricity costs, simplify RFNBO rules, de-risk finance and fund a hydrogen backbone to speed FIDs.
CEO-led alliance white paper diagnoses bottlenecks—fragmented rules, high power costs, weak demand certainty—and urges bankable demand, simpler support, de-risk finance and cross-border infrastructure
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