Norwegian Corridor.

Polish gas transmission operator, Gaz-System, and its Danish counterpart, Energinet, have started work on securing a positive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for their proposed natural gas pipeline project, the Baltic Pipe.

Poland wants to consistently pursue its policy of diversifying gas supply sources and thus reducing its dependence on Russian raw material supplies. For the first time in official government documents, Warsaw informs about the plan to abandon the Yamal contract after its expiry – writes Piotr Stępiński, editor of BiznesAlert.pl.

– The Polish LNG terminal will be expanded with a third tank and new functionalities. Should the Baltic Pipe fail, a floating LNG terminal will be built. These projects that make up the Northern Gate are a threat to the position of the current dominator in the region, Gazprom, who already admits it. In the […]

The planned Baltic Pipe gas pipeline, connecting the Polish and Danish gas transmission system, is to have a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per year. It is supposed to be ready by October 2022.

Although in media we could read about a threat to the Baltic Pipe project realization, The Polish are convinced that the investment shall be realized without any disturbances. The territorial dispute with Denmark won’t pose a threat to it – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl writes about it.

LNG terminal in Świnoujście is part of a wider, comprehensive strategy to provide alternative access to gas sources for Poland – Piotr Naimski said, a Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure at the 3rd National Conference „LNG Regasification Stations in the Poviats and Municipalities as the Country’s Leverage of Economic Development”. The media patron of […]

Within a decade PGNiG has invested about PLN 5.3 bn in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Since starting production in 2012, the company has extracted 2.14 bcm of natural gas and almost 2.2 m tons of oil. The question is how much the deposit can still yield? Is it worth to continue investing in Norway? We […]

The cooperation between Norway and Poland in the energy sector has recently taken very tangible shape. In 2016, Poland decided to launch the Northern Gate project—a set of gas interconnections aiming to link the Polish gas market with gas deposits on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. With that decision, Poland wants to diversify away from Russia […]

Hermes Energy Group withdrew from the fight for access to Baltic Pipe’s capacity. The pipeline will transmit gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf to Poland. According to the company, the Act on Mandatory Stocks of Fossil Fuels makes it impossible for Hermes to participate in the project. 

The Northern Gateway is a project at the crossroads of politics and business. Even though it will facilitate political goals, it will also have a business impact. The success of the Polish plan depends on the future of the dispute on the role of Gazprom in Central and Eastern Europe. To fully appreciate it, one […]