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What goes on in Poland on the 5th of June.

Poland has the greatest potential for offshore wind energy development among all Baltic countries. Norwegian companies know this, said Olav Myklebust, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway during the Baltic Wind Industry Forum.

PGNiG Upstream Norway and Aker BP have signed a contract for the lease of a semi-submersible drilling rig. In autumn, the exploration well will start to be drilled on the Shrek prospectus within PL838 license. For the PGNiG Group, it will be the first drill well in the role of an operator on the Norwegian […]

Once completed in 2022, a gas link between Poland and Norway will hinder Russia’s Gazprom monopoly on gas supplies, putting an end to a phenomenon that has lasted for several decades – writes Janusz Kowalski, a member of the Energy Security Team at the Chancellery of President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and a former Vice […]

– Ideally and directionally, we support Baltic Pipe as opposition, but we see threats facing the implementation of this project. The Danish side also contacted the Baltic Pipe with the opposition – said Włodzimierz Karpiński, the former Treasury Minister, vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy and Treasury, deputy of Platforma Obywatelska in an interview […]

PGNiG Upstream Norway, a Norwegian subsidiary of the PGNiG Group, obtained three new licenses from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy as part of the annual APA 2018 (Awards in Predefined Areas) licensing round. On two of them the company will act as the operator.

PGNiG Upstream Norway AS has acquired a detailed 2D seismic image, which will facilitate the selection of a drilling location in the Shrek prospect within the PL838 licence area. It will be the first well drilled by the PGNiG Group as a licence operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

What goes on in Poland on the 28th of December.

PGNiG Upstream Norway AS obtained a consent of the Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy to purchase over 42% shares in the Tommeliten Alpha filed from Equinor. The acquisition will allow to increase company’s gas production output from Norwegian portfolio by 0.5 bcm/year.

The gas reserves of the Fogelberg field are estimated at between 7 and 14 bcm. The start of commercial production is in line with the plans of PGNiG as the company seeks to increase the production of natural gas in Norway in order to supply it via the Baltic Pipe to Poland.