In Q3 2022, PGNiG (Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo) took delivery of 14 supplies of liquefied natural gas at the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal in Świnoujście. Additional 3 deliveries were imported by the company via the terminal in Klaipeda, Lithuania.

‘Thanks to the intensification of receiving cargoes of liquefied natural gas and the effective use of the continuously developed transmission infrastructure, we can ensure stable supplies to our customers in the coming heating season, as well as in the years to come’, said PGNiG CEO Iwona Waksmundzka-Olejniczak said.

She added that the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal in Świnoujście, which has been in operation for several years, as well as the Baltic Pipe pipeline launched a few days ago, are the pillars of domestic energy security that enable PGNiG to effectively diversify its natural gas imports.

Most deliveries in the third quarter of this year were from the United States. In Q4, the first delivery to the Swinoujscie terminal is expected to arrive from Qatar. The gas carrier Tembek will deliver approximately 120 million cubic metres of natural gas (after regasification). This will be the 41st delivery to the terminal this year and the 189th since the gas port began operating.

The intensification of LNG deliveries is an important element of the diversification activities implemented by PGNiG and making Poland less dependent on gas supplies from Russia. In total, since the beginning of the year, the PGNiG Group has taken delivery of 46 cargoes with a volume of about 51.9 TWh, which corresponds to about 4.5 bcm of the raw material after regasification, of which 40 shipments were delivered to Świnoujście.

At the end of September, PGNiG obtained an allocation of regasification capacity in Klaipeda for the years 2023-2032. The reservation will enable the Company to receive LNG cargoes of over 0.5 bcm after regasification per year. The imported gas can be sent to Poland via the Poland-Lithuania pipeline, which was launched in May this year.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński