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plans to expand it to 7.5 bcm.
More investments to boost Poland’s
capacity to receive gas from sources other than Russia planned. Poland aims to build another LNG terminal in Gdansk that will handle 4 bcm of LNG, starting in 2025. Construction of the Baltic Pipe to pump some 10 bcm from Norway is expected to kick off in 2020, with the pipeline to begin operations in 2022.
With an estimated 4 bcm of domestic production to add to imports via terminals and the Baltic Pipe, Poland expects to secure covering its demand for around 17 bcm
of natural gas annually by 2022. That year, Warsaw’s long-term gas supply contract with Russia’s Gazprom expires and Poland keeps hinting it will not be renewed.
“Just now Poland has a chance to free itself from a dominant supplier, which is Gazprom,” Piotr Naimski, the government’s proxy for strategic energy infrastructure, told Reuters.
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Gazprom sees non-CIS sales fall 4% in YTD
Gazprom’s gas sales to non-CIS countries fell by a further 4% to 135.6bn cubic metres in the year up to September 15, the state company has reported.
Energean is currently developing the KThis was despite was growth in production by 1.1% yr/yr in the same period to 348.1 bcm. Gazprom has struggled this year in Europe because of increased competition from LNG. A recent court order restricting its use of Germany’s Opal pipeline is likely to restrict its deliveries even further, unless it can re-direct volumes through Ukraine and Poland.
September 18 2019
Wood wins service deal at Equinor gas field
UK oilfield services group Wood has secured brownfield modification services work at
Norwegian Equinor’s Martin Linge oil and gas field, currently under development.
The award falls under an existing framework the two companies have had
in place since 2016, under which Wood works as Martin Linge’s main contractor for maintenance, repairs and modifications.
Martin Linge is situated in the northern North Sea in waters 115 metres deep. It is due on stream in early 2020. The project comprises a fixed integrated wellhead, production and accommodation platform, operated remotely from an onshore control centre, and a floating storage and offloading vessel. It will pump its gas via a new pipeline connected with existing infrastructure to the St Fergus plant in Scotland.
“We look forward to working on the Martin Linge development – one of the most advanced installations on the NCS,” Wood’s senior vice president for Norway, Lars Fredrik Bakke, said in a statement.
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