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The homeopathic gas supply organized by Poles and Ukrainians to Moldova, which is suffering from shortages, is only a band-aid solution. Putin used Gazprom as a weapon against that country. It’s time for Europe to respond – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief at BiznesAlert.pl.

PGNiG Supply & Trading in cooperation with the American-Ukrainian ERU Group won a tender for natural gas supplies to Republic of Moldova. This will be the first ever gas supply to that country from a non-Russian source.

– It is virtually certain that the current situation is largely due to deliberate action by Russia against the new authorities in Chisinau and their pro-EU policy, and that the inability to reserve capacity, which Gazprom uses to explain the drop in supplies to Moldova, is merely a pretext – write Kamil Całus and Agata Łoskot-Strachota, […]

The 2-week COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference will start on October 31 in Glasgow. Though methane emission reduction is not in the limelight for this session, it will be a topic for hallway conversations. In particular, taking into account that the EU strategy to reduce methane emissions was adopted one year ago in the […]

Nord Stream 2 pipeline, though completed is nowhere near delivering gas to the EU and involved in several legal battles in EU and German Courts that can affect the bankability of the project. The latter is acknowledged by the project promotors themselves – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl editor in chief.

Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz has filed a request with German regulator BundesNetzAgentur (BNetzA) for leave to participate in the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Naftogaz Executive Board Chairman Yuriy Vitrenko announced on 17 October in Kyiv.

Polish Oil & Gas Company has completed the construction of Cluster B at the Kosakowo Cavern Underground Gas Storage Facility (UGSF), a project of strategic importance for Poland’s energy security.

A new solution to transferring exploration and production licenses from PGNiG to Orlen in the event of a merger has been proposed. A fresh subsidiary of PGNiG is to be sold to PKN Orlen to remove the need for a general succession, or buyout of individual shares, which would take additional time. Meanwhile, dark clouds […]

The Russian ambassador to Poland argues that Gazprom did not use gas as a weapon. That’s not true. The company is capitalizing on the energy crisis, and wants to use it to force an early launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The answer to this is a common European policy, for example with […]

Russia has some of the world’s largest gas storage facilities. Every year Gazprom carries out an intensive process of pumping gas into its underground storage facilities. Even though it is not pumping gas into its European storage, which some claim is caused by the high gas prices on the market, the process is in full […]