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​​Respect the environment during your maintenance operations on your gas installations

​GRTgaz has developed 3 innovations to avoid methane emissons during maintenance operations in order to respect the environment and future regulations.

​​​Our innovation offers  preventing gas emissions

​The European Commission is planning tough regulations, including "Green deal for Europe" aiming to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030.

Therefore, GRTgaz is committed to innovate to comply with these new regulations and to act for a better future.

​Blue Flaring

A new way of flaring gas during operations without emitting methane.


✓ From 0 to 100 bars
✓ Up to 8000 (n)m3/h


Application cases :

- Pipe repairs
- Connection to customers


Volume ++                 
Pression +++  

​DTR (Détox Ton Réseau) 

​A small gas booster (compressor) to recover trapped gas in expansion stations downstream of the network for small installations.


✓ Up to 16 bars
✓ Up to 20 (n)m3/h


Application cases : 

 - Corrective interventions on stations
 - Replacement of the "functional tests" on substations
 - Work on medium-length pipes


Volume +
Pression +  

​Let's get in touch !  

​You want to meet and learn more about the Blue Flaring, the DTR or the QBA ? Please, fill up this form to schedule a meeting for Green Maintenance.  

Or per BLG-GRT-DAI-ACCELERATEUR@grtgaz.com

​For information

GRTgaz has more than 151 shipper customers since 2020 

​GRTgaz in brief

​GRTgaz is a European leader in natural gas transmission and a world expert in gas systems. In France, the company operates more than 32 000 km of buried pipelines to transport gas from suppliers to consumers connected to its network.

GRTgaz has a public service mission to ensure the continuity of transmission of natural gas. Along with its subsidiaries – Elengy, the European leader in LNG terminal services, and GRTgaz Deutschland, the operator of the MEGAL transmission network in Germany – GRTgaz plays a key role in the European gas infrastructure scene.

As a player in the energy transition, GRTgaz invests in innovative solutions to accommodate as much renewable gas as possible on its network, including hydrogen. The goal is to provide support for these new sectors, and thus contribute to achieve carbon neutrality. 

​32 779 km

of pipelines, including 32 618 km in France 

20 % 

this is how much we aim to reduce our carbon emissions by 2024 (compared to 2020) 

​3 777 employees

(GRTgaz, GRTgaz Deutschland and Elengy), including 3 300 at GRTgaz