Committed to protecting the environment, bayernets GmbH, Munich, transports natural gas efficiently and safely through its 1600 km long high pressure pipeline in Bavaria. With network coverage of 32,000 square kilometers and an average pipeline diameter of DN 500, the company belongs to one of the biggest natural gas grid operators in Germany. As a strong partner in the gas market area cooperation NetConnect Germany, bayernets connects the German gas transmission system in the south east through enty and exit points to the Austrian pipeline system. bayernets thus offers its shippers a gate to the East European gas market. The Munich-based company is an active market partner and contributes to the future development of a national and European gas distribution infrastructure e.g. in its role in the Vereinigung der Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber Gas e. V. (FNB Gas) and in the association European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG).