mining.

Orlen is completing the process of integrating companies producing crude oil and natural gas. The aim of this process is to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and stabilize the level of gas production. Assets dispersed after the merger with Grupa Lotos and PGNiG will be integrated around the company Orlen Upstream Poland.

Despite the inauguration of the Fund for Mining and coal Regions, it is not known whether funds for this purpose will be in the new budget of the European Union. It is important because Poland may be its biggest beneficiary – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, journalist of BiznesAlert.pl.

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 […]

The program convention of Law and Justice from July 5-7, from the point of view of the energy sector, passed under the slogan „coal plus” articulated by Minister Piotr Naimski. The energy panel was an opportunity to support nuclear energy, not renewable energy.

What goes on in Poland on the 30th of January.

Prairie Mining Limited (“Prairie”) and Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa SA (“JSW”) have entered into a Non-Disclosure Agreement (“NDA”) following Prairie’s approach to JSW with respect to potential co-operation regarding Prairie’s Polish coal projects. The purpose of the NDA is to allow for the exchange of technical and commercial information in order to facilitate substantial and more […]

What goes on in Poland on the 9th of February.

– The programme for the hard coal mining sector in Poland by 2030 declares actions to radically remedy the situation of the sector, but does not propose radical solutions. Local government elections are approaching – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Last Friday in Katowice, Krzysztof Tchórzewski the Minister of Energy, ensured that the scope of the hard coal industry reform has not changed. This was his response to the concerns voiced by, among others, mining trade unions over the future of the Polish Mining Group (PGG). 

What goes on in Poland on the 9th of October.