Since 1968, Eustream has secured the transmission of more than 2 trillion (2,128,000,000,000) cubic meters of natural gas across the territory of the Slovak Republic. The company therefore successfully continues in the tradition of the Slovak gas industry, which dates back over 150 years.
The annual capacity of the transmission system operated and maintained by Eustream is more than 90 billion cubic meters, which equals roughly 15 times the overall domestic gas consumption of the Slovak Republic. This demonstrates how a large part of our work concerns international gas transit. In 2010, we actually transported 71.4 billion cubic meters of gas, which is about 14% of total EU consumption.
Thanks to the continual modernization and upgrade of infrastructure, Eustream contributes to ensuring safe and reliable gas supplies to Central and Western Europe whilst doing its utmost to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. In this respect, one of the main challenges we face is to cut carbon emissions produced at the four gas compressor stations we operate.
Eustream allows access to the gas transmission network and offers its customers a wide range of transmission services on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis. The access regime is in full compliance with existing legislation and gas industry standards. The business partners of Eustream include major energy companies from EU and non-EU member states.
Of course, with the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis in January 2009, European gas history has had to be rewritten and also Eustream, in close co-operation with adjacent network operators, is currently reviewing gas flow directions and cross-border capacities in order to enhance further the security of gas supplies to Europe.
Eustream is a key player in European gas transmission
Our mission statement is embedded in a set of values among which safety, reliability and efficiency of operations are key priorities.
