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 The estimated volume of natural gas sold by the PGNiG Group in the second quarter of 2017 was 5.63 bcm, while last year at the same time the figure was 4.71 bcm. During the first half of the year PGNiG sold 14.49 bcm in comparison to 12.68 bcm a year earlier.

„In the long term Poland should invest in significant diversification of energy sources,” Janusz Steinhoff, former Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, engineer and PhD comments for Biznesalert.pl. 

Piotr Naimski, the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, was a guest in the „Kwadrans Polityczny” program on TVP1. „At the end of 2022 Poland will be able to import gas from completely different sources and via different routes than currently. Today we are almost entirely dependent on gas imports from Russia and Gazprom,” he […]

„We are very welcoming towards our American partners, whom we can seriously help by opening to them our gas market,” announced Piotr Woźniak, PGNiG’s CEO told the Polish Press Agency. He also added that such a contract had to be beneficial to PGNiG. 

„The European Parliament is able to stop the construction of Nord Stream 2,” argues professor Jerzy Buzek, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), in an interview for Biznesalert.pl. In his opinion, it would be a lot more profitable for European companies to invest in the Ukrainian transmission network. 

What goes on in Poland on the 19th of July

I‘ve gained access to the draft mandate of the European Council for EC negotiations with Russia on the Nord Stream 2 project. It’s a classified document and only a few people have access to it in every Member State, which means legally I am only allowed to discuss it”, says Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief […]

We are talking to Rafał Trzaskowski, former Deputy Minister for European Affairs and current Member of the European Parliament, on the controversial Nord Stream 2 project. 

Polish-Chinese nuclear energy agreement  Vice-Minister of Energy Andrzej Piotrowski and his Chinese counterpart Li Fanrong signed a Polish-Chinese agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, reported the Ministry of Energy. „Currently China uses 36 nuclear reactors and is building another 20. The first nuclear block in China was opened in 1991 and […]

In an interview for BiznesAlert.pl doctor Robert Zajdler, the Sobieski Institute’s expert on energy markets explains what a gas hub is and what conditions have to be fulfilled for such a project to materialize. According to the expert, the amended Act on fuel reserves, including natural gas, is a roadblock to developing a gas hub […]