Poland signs deals to expand its LNG terminal
6/24/2020
Poland has signed contracts worth 1.9 billion zlotys ($483 million) to expand its LNG terminal in Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea to 8.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) by 2023 from 5 bcm now in response to increasing domestic demand. An LNG unit of Poland’s gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System and the ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie on Wednesday signed a contract with a consortium of Porr and TGE Gas Engineering on the expansion project. Poland sees the facility as a means of reducing the country’s reliance on Russian gas, which still accounts for more than half of its total consumption. “The terminal gives us the flexibility of receiving gas from different parts of the world,” Piotr Na
