Our Services

Our Services

GTS uses an entry-exit system, in which the gas enters the grid at entry points and leaves the grid at exit points. Shippers can book capacity at entry points and at exit points. Before awarding capacity to a shipper, GTS performs an availability and a technical transport test. Tariffs have been set for all individual entry and exit points. Entry capacity gives the right to inject a specific volume of gas per hour into the national gas transmission grid at an entry point; exit capacity gives the right to extract a specific volume of gas per hour from the national gas transmission grid at an exit point. A directly connected party can book exit capacity at its connection linked to the GTS network.

GTS accepts gas that is offered at entry points, transports it and makes it available at exit points. A shipper has a free choice of a combination of entry and exit points. The combined entry and exit contracts of one and the same shipper are called a portfolio. A shipper can have several portfolios. A shipper does not have to book the entry and exit capacity at the same time. However, he is obliged to ensure that his portfolio balances the volume of gas that he injects into the system and the volume that he extracts from it. To achieve this, GTS has introduced a balancing regime.

There is a handling period of a maximum of 10 working days between submitting the request for entry and/or exit capacity and the actual transport. This is the maximum period needed by GTS to complete the request in time. In practice the turnaround time for bookings is generally much shorter.

Our services are also described in the brochure Services Included 2009