State-owned OPG Gaz-System has obtained a set of construction permits for the onshore gas pipelines through which gas will be pumped to central Poland from the floating LNG terminal. The facility will be docked at the Port of Gdansk, and capable of regasifying 6.1 bcm of gas fuel per year.

This will allow the company to start construction of all three system onshore gas pipelines being built as part of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) floating terminal project. It includes the sections: Kolnik – Gdansk, 35 km long, Gardeja – Kolnik, 86 km long and Gustorzyn – Gardeja, 126 km long.

‘Receiving complete administrative permits for the onshore part of the FSRU is a key moment in the process of realising the second LNG port in Poland. This allows us to start ground works. In parallel, we are designing the offshore gas pipeline together with the technical infrastructure and selecting the FSRU to be docked in the waters of the Gulf of Gdansk. By developing the national transmission system, we are responding to the needs of gas consumers in Poland. Thus, we are increasing the country’s energy security as well as our role in Europe’s gas supply’, said Marcin Chludziński, President of OPG Gaz-System.

Construction is scheduled to start in 2024. The pipelines are to provide the possibility of receiving and transporting additional volumes of natural gas to central Poland from a floating terminal, the location of which is planned in the Gulf of Gdansk. The floating FSRU is to be capable of regasifying LNG at a capacity of 6.1 bcm per year. The project is scheduled to be operational by 2027/2028.

It is possible that a second floating terminal will be docked in the Gulf of Gdansk. Due to the significant interest of market participants in obtaining LNG by sea, through Gaz-System, the state-owned operator is currently conducting a binding Open Season procedure for the FSRU 2 Terminal, capable of offloading, in-process storage, and regasification of LNG at 4.5 bcm per year.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński