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PGNiG Upstream Norway will acquire 22.2 percent of shares in King Lear field – PL146 and PL333 licenses – from Total E&P Norge. The volume of production in the part attributable to PGNiG may reach 0.25 bcm of natural gas annually. The production start is planned for 2025.


The decision on changing the concession for natural gas production from the Przemyśl field and the Buszkowiczki deposit is expected by June 27, 2019 – ensured the Ministry of the Environment in a commentary for BiznesAlert.pl. PGNiG strives to extend it.

Serhiy Oleksiyenko, acting president of Ukrtransgaz says that Ukraine could import up to 5 bcm of gas a year, but the obstacle are infrastructural limitations on the Polish territory.


Echo of Andrzej Duda’s visit to the United States, talks with Donald Trump and another contract for LNG deliveries are also heard in Moscow. This is another opportunity for the Russians to pump a balloon of disinformation on the diversification of sources of gas supplies to Poland – writes Piotr Stępiński, journalist of BiznesAlert.pl.

Delaying Nord Stream 2 is not enough to ensure Ukraine’s stability. The Russians have already begun playing for its destabilization during and after the parliamentary elections. Warsaw should act in the face of the interregnum in Brussels, writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

– Yes, we’ll get rid of it. This is a good term. The terms of the contract with Gazprom are extremely unfavorable to us – said PGNiG President Piotr Woźniak a few moments after signing the annex increasing LNG supplies from the USA to Poland.

On 21 January another round of trilateral gas talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union was held in Brussels. This meeting mainly concerned the new Russian-Ukrainian transit contract; the transit contract currently in force between Gazprom and Naftogaz will expire as of 1 January 2020. During the meeting, European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič submitted […]

Former German Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who announced his political retirement, will open the International Business Congress in Bonn. This is Gazprom’s lobbying organization described by BiznesAlert.pl.

The US announcement about sanctioning Nord Stream 2 companies requires EC to take a relevant action and speak up. Although, due to the political reasons (EU’s states involvement in NS2), it is difficult for EC to fully team up with US on sanctions against Nord Stream 2, this situation begs for a vocal reaction from […]

The CEO of Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev met with the newly sworn President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zlensky.