What goes on in Poland on the 5th of August.
Gaz-System selected the contractor for the Poland-Slovakia gas pipeline
– The Poland-Slovakia gas connection is an important element in building an integrated European gas market. It will allow us to increase gas transmission from the LNG terminal and the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline to our partners from Central and Eastern Europe. On 19 July 2019, Gaz-System signed a contract for the construction of this gas pipeline – says Artur Zawartko, Vice-President of Gaz-System.
Transneft drags its feet over paying Druzhba oil compensation
Russia played on time before holding talks on compensating all losses incurred by crude recipients for contaminated oil flows injected into the Druzhba pipeline system. This reaction probably stems from a Russian internal clash between the country’s largest oil producer Rosneft and oil pipeline monopoly Transneft. The latter has recently made a unilateral decision to define the maximum compensation for tainted crude supplies. This may prompt long-lasting litigation between buyers, also from Poland and Belarus, and the Russian oil pipeline monopoly. The case is becoming more and more likely to be taken to court.
Bojarczyk: Poland will not be a viable force in the coalition of tanker protection
The United Kingdom proposes to create a coalition to protect oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The Poles raised initial interest in the initiative. – Poland does not have the potential and technical capabilities to be a real force in such a coalition – says Bartosz Bojarczyk from the Department of International Relations at UMCS in Lublin, in a conversation with BiznesAlert.pl.
Polish Briefing: Trump’s visit to Poland with Nord Stream 2 in the background
What goes on in Poland on the 2nd of August.
The environmental decision on Baltic Pipe landfall in Denmark issued
On July 12, 2019, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish EPA) issued two environmental decisions related to the location of the onshore part of the Baltic Pipe in Denmark – one for Gaz-System S.A. and the other one for the Danish gas and energy transmission system operator – Energinet.
Germany’s grid agency investigates suspected power price speculation
The German Federal Network Agency, BNetzA, has launched an investigation into whether power price speculation destabilised the country’s power grid, newspaper Handelsblatt reports.
Legucka: The Russians are still breaking the law near Crimea
– The incident of arresting a Russian tanker off the coast of Ukraine has its roots in the situation from the end of November 2018, when probably the same Russian unit took part in the blockade of access of the Ukrainian fleet to the Azov Sea. Conflict, however, has a wider background – said PhD Agnieszka Legucka, expert at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
Polish Briefing: A Croatian twin of the Polish LNG terminal obtained permission for public aid
What goes on in Poland on the 1st of August.
Steinhoff: Gas should replace the nuclear (INTERVIEW)
Poland must abandon coal because it is an increasing burden for the economy. Dr Janusz Steinhoff, former Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister in the government of Jerzy Buzek, emphasized in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl that it will not happen rapidly, and that the share of individual energy sources in the energy mix should be determined by the economic calculation. In his opinion, Poland should abandon plans to build a nuclear power plant and focus on the development of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and gas energy.