Official: Poland not to buy Russian gas after 2022

WARSAW, Oct 4 (PRIME) -- Poland will not buy Russian gas after 2022, Piotr Naimski, the government’s strategic energy infrastructure commissioner, told Polish Radio on Friday.

“Both Baltic Pipe and expansion of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal is our strategic way out from the existing situation of dependence on Russians,” Naimski said.

“After 2022, this problem will be solved, all Poland’s gas imports will be from another direction,” he added.

An agreement on gas supplies signed by PGNiG and Russia’s Gazprom in 1996 expires in 2022. In 2018, PGNiG reduced gas imports by 6.4%.

In June 2017, Poland and Denmark signed a memorandum on construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline with a projected capacity of 10 billion cubic meters. The project is expected to be implemented in 2022.

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