Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG), a company in the Orlen Group, received 58 cargoes of LNG at the Świnoujście terminal in 2022. This is the maximum since the start of the gas port’s operation and 23 more than a year earlier, when 35 vessels arrived. The total volume of deliveries was 4.4 million tonnes of LNG – 57 % more than in 2021, when ships delivered 2.8 million tonnes of LNG.

In 2022, the largest number of deliveries (36) came from the United States, with 18 vessels arriving from Qatar, two deliveries from Nigeria and one from Trinidad and Tobago and Egypt each. The Group increased imports primarily from liquefaction terminals in the USA, from where as many as 20 more cargoes arrived than in 2021.

The intensification of liquefied natural gas imports was possible due to the expansion of the Swinoujscie terminal, which from 2022 can regasify 6.2 bcm per year, 1.2 bcm more than before. The total volume of supplies that Orlen Group imported through this terminal in 2022 was 5.8 bcm, which means that the regasification capacity of the terminal was used at a level of approximately 94 %.

Last year, Orlen Group began receiving cargoes of liquefied natural gas at the LNG terminal in Klaipeda, Lithuania. In 2022, there were eight such deliveries with a total volume of 0.5 million tonnes of LNG, or 0.7 billion cubic metres of natural gas. Most of the received fuel, after regasification, was sent to Poland via the newly opened Poland-Lithuania pipeline.

In 2023, the company promises to maintain the high efficiency of its LNG operations. The dominant import direction will be the US, which is related to the implementation of two long-term contracts with Chenier and Venture Global, with a total target volume of almost 3 million tonnes of LNG per year. Orlen Group also has a signed agreement with Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of the Klaipeda LNG terminal. Based on this agreement, PGNiG can bring 6 cargoes of LNG to the Lithuanian gas port this year.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński