The company aims to build a new 15km stretch of pipeline and a hydrogen pressure regulating station (WDRM) by 2029.

The planned segment, named Hylu, is intended to take gas from the 679km Midal pipeline, running on the north-south axis in central Germany, and transport it between the town of Lampertheim and the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Gascade began converting Midal for hydrogen in spring 2025.

Preliminary work on the Hylu pipeline, which Gascade intends to complete by fall 2026, will include mapping, surveying work, site investigations, and explosive ordnance surveys.

Gascade says that the WDRM facility will be integrated into existing gas infrastructure in Lampertheim and will be operational by 2028.

This comes after Gascade completed converting 400km of pipeline from natural gas to hydrogen in December 2025.

These pipelines will both form part of the 9,000km hydrogen core network that will connect major hydrogen production and import clusters with consuming regions around Germany.

Major pipeline projects are increasingly popping up across Europe as various sectors seek to deploy hydrogen for decarbonisation.

German TSOs are due to begin capacity reservations for the hydrogen core network from this year, allowing producers, industrial users, and traders to make binding bookings for future entry and exit points.