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sales and business development. shipowner and operator. According to the Grupa LOTOS so far. We are pleased that the
TMC COMPRESSORS,November 03, 2020 contract signed with Knutsen OAS Shipping service is gaining popularity and that it can
the chartering period for both vessels is 10 now be provided in other Polish ports besides
The PGNiG Group contracted years with possibility of extension. As the Gda?sk and Gdynia. We believe that LNG
fuel is the future of maritime transport in the
shipowner and operator the company will
ships for transporting US be responsible, among others, for staffing Baltic Sea. Our business relationship with
Grupa LOTOS in this area is a good example
the vessels and taking care of their technical
LNG condition throughout the term of the contract. justifying the existence of the multi-utility
Currently, the volume of contracts for
group we will soon be a part of,” said Jaros?aw
Chartered gas carriers will be used for trading US LNG in the PGNiG import portfolio Wróbel, acting president of the PGNiG
liquefied natural gas contracted by PGNiG amounts to approx. 9.3 bcm annually after management board.
with American suppliers. Two modern regasification. About 7 bcm will come from “Energy transition motivates us to step up
tankers will enter service in 2023. Norwegian contracts concluded in the FOB trading our efforts in the field of alternative fuels. One
Knutsen OAS Shipping selected in the tender formula, according to which PGNiG is of our development directions is LNG, a green
will be responsible for the delivery and responsible for loading LNG at the supplier’s and safe fuel. In order to promote this market
servicing of vessels. export facility, transport and unloading at the segment, we need to develop logistics and
The LNG carriers are two units with destination port. For this reason the company LNG bunkering infrastructure. Grupa LOTOS
capacity of 174,000 cubic metres each, which needs transportation capacity, but also gains is analysing various projects in this area. The
means the size of the cargo that each vessel flexibility in managing LNG volumes. The company has recently completed a feasibility
will be able to transport is approximately 100 cargo may be sent to Poland or – if sold on the study for a project to build a small-scale LNG
mcm after regasification. Time of putting market – to another LNG import terminal in transshipment terminal in Gda?sk, which
these vessels into service will coincide with the the world. has already entered the internal corporate
commencement of operation of the Calcasieu PGNIG GROUP, November 03, 2020 decision-making stage,” explains Pawe? Jan
Pass terminal. This is the first of two liquefied Majewski, president of the Grupa LOTOS
natural gas exporting facilities built by the PGNiG and LOTOS: first LNG management board.
American company Venture Global LNG, The LNG bunkering operation was
which PGNiG has signed one of the long-term bunkering in Szczecin performed at the wharf of the Port of Szczecin
contracts with. with the use of cryogenic LNG tankers. The
The tender procedure for the charter On November 5, 2020, the first bunkering of LNG fuel was pumped into the tanks of
service for the PGNiG Group was participated a ship with liquefied natural gas (LNG) took the ship Scheldt River, which is working to
by several companies. The proceedings were place at a port supervised by the Maritime deepen the ?winouj?cie-Szczecin waterway to
conducted by the PGNiG’s LNG trade office Authority of Szczecin. With the bunkering enable Szczecin to accommodate vessels twice
in London, part of PGNiG Supply & Trading, operation, PGNiG Obrót Detaliczny and the size of the ships that currently call at the
which is a competence centre for trading in LOTOS Asfalt have expanded the scope of port. Worth over PLN 1.44bn, this strategic
LNG for entire PGNiG Group. Experience their co-operation, which helps to strengthen project is funded from the Cohesion Fund
in the implementation of LNG transport, the role of Polish ports and promotes LNG and the state budget.
technical parameters of the vessels offered fuel in the Baltic Sea. PGNIG, November 05, 2020
and price competitiveness of the offers “We have carried out tens of LNG
were taken into account when selecting the bunkering, or refuelling, operations with

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