Posted on 06/17/2018 6:52:08 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Poland is confident of meeting a 2022 deadline for completing a new Baltic Sea gas pipeline to Norway,which will connect Poland to Norwegian gas deposits via Denmark and aims to reduce Polish reliance on Russian gas.
Construction of the pipeline, with capacity of 10 billion cubic metres per year, is set to begin in spring 2020.
Polish state-run gas firm PGNiG buys most of the gas Poland consumes from Russia's Gazprom under a long-term deal set to expire in 2022. Poland does not intend to extend the contract beyond that date.
In other attempts to diversify sources of supply, Poland opened its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Baltic Sea, which it plans to expand, and PGNiG has been buying more and more gas from sources other than Gazprom.
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Excellent! Now if only Trump can block Nord Stream 2.
EU should buy LNG from the US instead of becoming more dependent on Russia. Russia is not a friend of the US or the West.
German and Russian scum are not happy!
If people from Poland are called Poles why aren’t people from Holland called Holes.
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