CLH Pipeline System the GPSS and also gained from the surplus of income over expenditure that OPA used to generate from running the GPSS. The sale did not include the six coastal Oil Fuel Depots owned by the MoD, which continued to be operated and maintained by the residual OPA. Following its acquisition by CLH, the GPSS was subsequently renamed the CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS). Since CLH have taken over the ownership of the GPSS a number of the pipelines that make up the system have been closed down. CLH Pipeline System The CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS), formerly the Government Pipelines and Storage
Northern Lights (pipeline) by the Vukhtyl gas field, but later the pipeline was extended in order to connect with the Urengoy gas field. The Northern Lights pipeline system has a total length of , of which around is used to transport Russian gas to Europe. The pipeline runs from the Urengoy gas field through Vuktyl, Ukhta, Gryazovets, Torzhok and Smolensk to Minsk in Belarus and from there to Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania. A part of the newer Yamal–Europe pipeline runs parallel to the Northern Lights pipeline. A branch line from Gryazovets through Saint Petersburg to Vyborg supplies the Saint Petersburg area and Finland.