ORLEN will have the ability to obtain as much as 58 shipments of LNG per yr on the FSRU terminal to be constructed within the Gulf of Gdansk. The corporate has finalised an settlement with GAZ-SYSTEM to order a regasification capability of 6.1 billion m3/y on the Gdansk terminal. That is one other step within the means of strengthening the vitality independence of the nation and the area.
“Poland’s gas and vitality safety has been and continues to be a precedence for us. The necessity to strengthen this safety was one of many causes for constructing a strong multi-utility group. Due to the merger with LOTOS, PGNiG, and Energa, we have now the potential to interact in additional initiatives vital for the vitality independence of the nation and the area. One such challenge is the floating LNG terminal to be constructed within the Gulf of Gdansk, the place ORLEN has reserved the whole regasification capability. Along with the already operational President Lech Kaczynski terminal in Swinoujscie, this can allow us to obtain all of the LNG equipped beneath the long-term contracts we have now signed. Presently, that is virtually 14 billion m3 of gasoline. This quantity of the commodity, supplemented by provides from Norway and our personal home manufacturing, will enable us not solely to totally fulfill the wants of Polish clients but additionally to supply gasoline to neighbouring markets. Thus, ORLEN will likely be a guarantor of gas and vitality safety not just for Poland but additionally for different nations within the area,” mentioned Daniel Obajtek, CEO and President of the Administration Board of ORLEN.
The floating terminal in Gdansk can have the capability to unload, retailer, and regasify as much as 6.1 billion m3/y of gasoline gas. The beginning-up of the unit, as introduced by Fuel Transmission Operator, GAZ-SYSTEM, which is implementing the challenge, is deliberate for 1 January 2028.
“Final yr, political occasions associated to the struggle in Ukraine utterly modified the instructions of pure gasoline provides to the EU. Now we have seen an over 60% improve in LNG provides from the worldwide market. Poland is capitalising on this development and nurtures ambitions to turn into a gasoline hub for Central and Jap Europe,’ add-ed Anna Lukaszewska-Trzeciakowska, Secretary of State and Authorities Plenipotentiary for Strategic Vitality Infrastructure.
The capability reservation settlement, entered into throughout the framework of the open season FSRU process carried out by GAZ-SYSTEM, was concluded for 15 years.
“The FSRU Terminal challenge, now endorsed by the ORLEN Group, is one other ingredient of the nation’s vitality safety based mostly on sound financial rationale. After finishing cross-border connections with Denmark, Lithuania, and Slovakia, and increasing the LNG Terminal in Swinoujscie, this challenge will improve the gasoline diversification of Poland and the Intermarium,” commented Marcin Chludzinski, President of the Administration Board of GAZ-SYSTEM.
The Gdansk terminal will likely be one other location the place the ORLEN Group will obtain LNG provides. Since 2016, the corporate has been receiving liquefied pure gasoline provides on the President Lech Kaczynski Terminal in Swinoujscie. To this point, it has acquired 241 deliveries there with a complete quantity of roughly 19.06 million t of LNG. Most shipments got here from Qatar (123) and the US (98). LNG shipments have been additionally acquired from Norway (13), Nigeria (3), Trinidad and Tobago (3), and Egypt (1).
Since Could 2022, the Group has additionally been utilizing the Klaipeda terminal in Lithuania the place it has up to now acquired 10 shipments with a complete quantity of roughly 655 000 t of LNG. After regasification, the gasoline is shipped to Poland by way of the Poland-Lithuania gasoline pipeline; a few of it’s also directed to the markets of the Baltic nations.
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