Poland’s natural gas deliveries to the Ukrainian market in 2017 doubled, reaching over 700 million cubic meters, Polish Oil and Gas Company PGNiG announced on Wednesday.
According to the statement, “in just seventeen months, from August 2016 until December 2017, Polish Oil and Gas Company has delivered over 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to the Ukrainian market. PGNiG’s supplies of gas to Ukraine have doubled in 2017 reaching over 700 mcm a year.”
“The portfolio of gas in our offer is well diversified: it comes from our domestic production in Poland and from various import directions. In the first three quarters of 2017, 12 percent of our total import came via the LNG terminal in Swinoujscie mainly from Qatar, Norway and the U.S.,” Vice-President of PGNiG, Maciej Wozniak said.
According to Wozniak, the company does not plan to import natural gas from Russia after 2022 – the expiration date of the current long-term contract with the Russian supplier Gazprom.
'For PGNiG energy security is a priority and it means diversified supplies of gas from different geographical directions at competitive prices, while supplies from Gazprom do not fulfill these conditions,” Wozniak added.
The Polish energy giant started delivering gas to Ukraine in August 2016 via a direct interconnector, while in October 2017 the company signed framework agreements with the Ukrainian gas system operator Ukrtransgaz for gas storage and transmission pipeline capacities in Ukraine.
By Firdevs Yuksel
Anadolu Agency
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