PGNiG Orlen Group: more LNG deliveries to Swinoujscie terminal this year

The Swinoujscie terminal has received its 50th LNG delivery this year. This is 20 more cargoes than in the same period in 2021. The intensification of LNG deliveries made it possible to secure the raw material for customers in Poland despite the difficult situation on the European gas market, PGNiG Group Orlen reported on Monday.

PGNiG is now an Orlen Group company – the merger of the two entities took place at the beginning of November, following the earlier acquisition of Energa Group and Lotos Group as part of PKN Orlen’s construction of a multi-utility concern aimed at, among other things, increasing competitiveness on international markets and enhancing Poland’s energy security.

As PGNiG Group Orlen announced on Monday, the day before, on 20 November, the Al Shamal gas carrier with a cargo of about 90,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas from Qatar, equivalent to about 120 million cubic metres of gas in a volatile state, arrived at the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal in Świnoujście.

This is the 50th delivery of liquefied natural gas received at the Świnoujście gas port this year, the Orlen Group company said. As noted in the communiqué, in the corresponding period of 2021, the number of cargoes delivered was 30, which means that the rate of liquefied natural gas offtake in Świnoujście increased year-on-year by two-thirds.

According to PGNiG’s Orlen Group, “the intensification of LNG deliveries has made it possible to secure the raw material for domestic customers despite the difficult situation on the European gas market”.

– LNG imports are currently one of the main sources of natural gas supply for Poland, providing about 40 per cent of the demand for this raw material from the beginning of 2022. Thanks to LNG, we can guarantee uninterrupted gas supplies to our customers despite the ongoing energy crisis in Europe,’ PKN Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek stressed, quoted in the company’s announcement. – The intensification of supplies shows our competence in the field of LNG trade, Obajtek said.

– After the merger between PKN Orlen and PGNiG, we will consistently develop them to support two strategic goals of our Group – ensuring the country’s energy security in the process of green transformation and increasing the importance of our concern on foreign markets, he added.

PGNiG Orlen Group stressed that the intensification of LNG supplies “is a response to the European energy crisis, which has been going on for more than a year, mainly related to the actions of Gazprom, until recently the main supplier of this raw material to the European Union market, and the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine”. As recalled in the information, “at the end of April this year, Gazprom stopped gas deliveries to Poland, thus breaching the Yamal contract”.

At the same time, PGNiG Grupa Orlen explained that “the increase in the number of supplies was possible, among other things, thanks to the expansion of the gas port itself, which since this year has had a regasification capacity allowing it to receive 6.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year, against the previous 5 billion cubic metres.” “This is also the result of very good cooperation between PGNiG of the Orlen Group and Gaz-System, the operator of the gas port,” – the company stressed.

PGNiG Grupa Orlen reported that “the total volume of LNG cargoes already delivered to Swinoujscie this year has exceeded 3.8 million tonnes”, with the vast majority of deliveries – 31 out of 50 – coming from the US.

Source: PortalMorski.pl