Poland announced a plan late April 16 to separate coal assets from state-controlled utilities and transfer them to a state-owned National Energy Security Agency (NABE), freeing up power companies to Continue Reading
Poland ’s plan to carve out coal-fired power plants sparked a rally in the country’s biggest utilities. Now for the hard part — approving it. Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin’s Continue Reading
Some Polish doctors and nurses are just taking naps between shifts as they fight a third wave of the coronavirus, the health minister said on Friday, amid reports of medical Continue Reading
Poland will likely have to toughen COVID-19 restrictions again after reporting what early figures suggest will be a record number of new infections on Wednesday, the prime minister’s top aide Continue Reading
The United States and Poland closed a nuclear power deal potentially worth $18 billion as the Central European country seeks to reduce its reliance on coal and Russian natural gas. Continue Reading
Poland has agreed to spend $18 billion on US nuclear technology and services to help it break its reliance on Russian pipeline gas for use in generating electricity, Energy Secretary Continue Reading
Poland plans to open a temporary hospital at the national stadium in Warsaw as it faces a spike in coronavirus cases and a health system overload, the government said on Continue Reading
Poland’s anti-trust authority has imposed a fine of more than Zloty 29 billion ($7.61 billion, Eur6.47 billion) on Russia’s Gazprom for building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline without its Continue Reading
Poland authorities and mining unions said on Thursday that an agreement on a plan to restructure the country’s unprofitable and polluting coal industry is imminent, as hundreds of workers protesting Continue Reading
Poland is ready to offer Germany access to the 10 Bcm a year Baltic Pipe that will deliver gas from Norway if Berlin halts construction of the controversial Nord Stream Continue Reading
Every severe economic crisis shakes the basic foundations of seemingly mainstream policies and ideas and makes one wonder whether the recession’s impact could have been mitigated by timely and ambitious Continue Reading
Poland’s government started discussions with utilities and powerful mining unions about speeding up the country’s green transformation, only to hit the first hurdle within hours. Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin’s Continue Reading
The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical Continue Reading
Poland is to amend the 10-H distance law for onshore wind projects in the first half of this year, the country’s development minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said Thursday. Receive daily email Continue Reading
Poland’s energy regulator URE said Tuesday it was “doubtful” the country would meet its binding 2020 EU target to produce 15% of its final energy consumption from renewable energy sources. Continue Reading
European Council President Charles Michel said member states had different starting points European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed to make the currently 28-member bloc carbon neutral by 2050. Continue Reading
Polenergia to build 38 MW Szymankowo project Asahi Breweries signs PPA with RWE to fund expansion project Mercedes Benz signed first PPA with existing wind farm last year Warsaw — Continue Reading
Poland is continuing to make a pivot away from its decades-long natural gas supplier – Russia. In a statement on Wednesday , Polish state-controlled oil and gas company PGNIG said Continue Reading
When the Wieczorek mine, one of the oldest coal mines in Poland, closed in March, Grzegorz Chudy noticed for the first time the neighborhood was vibrant with trees in the Continue Reading
Poland will start investing in a new coal mine next year in the south of the country, Deputy Energy Minister Grzegorz Tobiszowski said on Thursday, a few days before U.N. Continue Reading
President Donald Trump pushed US LNG exports Tuesday as crucial to increasing European energy security during talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda while continuing his attacks on the Nord Stream Continue Reading
Poland reduced last year the share of its imports of Russian oil to the lowest level since 2005 , but the diversification of oil supplies came at a higher cost Continue Reading
High atop the ski lift at Zar Mountain in southern Poland, the villages below disappear. At first, they seem obscured by morning fog. But the yellow haze does not lift. Continue Reading
Poland’s largest utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) said Thursday it has received a positive environmental decision for a project to excavate the Zloczew lignite deposit, which could supply feedstock for Continue Reading
Poland, which relies heavily on Russia as an energy supplier, lacks connections with the rest of Europe and is behind the curve on renewables, the OECD said. Polish Oil and Continue Reading
Poland wants the United States to impose sanctions on the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a newspaper interview published Continue Reading
An $11 billion Polish effort to support the development of renewable energy secured the nod from European regulators, a commissioner said. The Polish government is supporting a scheme to cut Continue Reading
“Whenever you need energy, just give us a call,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on a visit to Poland in the summer. Now, with winter setting in, Warsaw is taking Continue Reading
Poland is willing to keep buying natural gas from Russia if conditions are right, though its economy is moving in another direction, the foreign minister said. Poland relies on Russian Continue Reading
President Donald Trump will use fast-growing supplies of U.S. natural gas as a political tool when he meets in Warsaw on Thursday with leaders of a dozen countries that are Continue Reading
The first shipment of American liquefied natural gas from Louisiana’s Cheniere Energy arrived in Poland on Wednesday, a feat hailed as an energy milestone in both Poland and Europe . Continue Reading
* Cargoes are first ever shipments into northern Europe * Dutch cargo seen as Statoil replacement, PGNiG’s spot deal * Not necessarily sign of wave of US LNG coming to Continue Reading
A Polish energy company said Thursday it closed on a deal to take its first-ever shipment of liquefied natural gas sourced from reservoirs in the United States. Polish Oil & Continue Reading
Surpassing Beijing would be an accolade for many cities. But for Skala in Poland, it was in a category not to be celebrated: air pollution. With a staggering 33 out Continue Reading
Shale gas fracking Poland’s race to explore shale gas is now over , after its state-run firm PGNiG and oil refiner PKN Orlen cancelled exploration projects there. Polish gas was Continue Reading
Amid antitrust concerns from Poland, a new financing model for the expansion of a gas pipeline to Europe could emerge by year’s end, Russia’s Gazprom said. Russian natural gas company Continue Reading
A gas flare on an oil production platform is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf July 25, 2005. Poland is replacing Russian oil with Iranian oil and unsold Continue Reading
Poland will struggle to replace all the natural gas it gets from Russia’s Gazprom, including with US supplies, as it bids to lower dependence on its eastern neighbor, according to Continue Reading
Poland’s new government seeks to shake up the nation’s power, gas and oil industries in the name of boosting energy security, with consequences for both dominant supplier Russia and the country’s partners in the European Union. While Prime Minister Beata Szydlo vowed last week to exploit coal and lignite deposits in the face of EU attempts to curb carbon emissions, tankers with Saudi and Kurdish crude sailed to Polish refineries reliant on Russian oil. Meanwhile, a Qatari tanker was loading its first liquefied natural gas shipment for a Polish terminal. Q: Will Poland Switch Russian Oil for Saudi? No, but the country of 38 million people, which buys about a 10th of Russian crude exports to the EU, can do more to diversify its supplies. Deliveries from the world’s biggest energy exporter account for more than 90 percent of Poland’s annual imports of 23.6 million tons of oil, according […]
Poland’s top refiner PKN Orlen SA will take delivery of its first crude from Saudi Arabia next month, a shipment that could mark the start of new trade relationship undermining the traditional dominance of Russian supplies. “The delivery may result in longer cooperation,” Chief Executive Officer Jacek Krawiec said at a conference in Warsaw on Thursday. Orlen’s largest refinery in Plock, which can process 16.3 million metric tons of crude annually, and its 10.2 million-tons-year Lithuanian facility could both use Saudi crude. Orlen is considering buying oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran as it seeks better terms amid a global supply glut. The refiner, which buys more than 90 percent of its crude from Russia, is also looking to renew two mid-term contracts that end in December and January with OAO Rosneft and Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin questioned Saudi Arabia’s strategy of boosting output to […]
Gas transit projects slated for Polish government support will connect to the European market and eliminate internal bottlenecks. Photo by tcly/Shutterstock BRUSSELS, July 17 (UPI) — More than half of the gas projects slated for Polish government grants will connect to European markets and help diversify the sector, an EU commissioner said. The European Commission said Poland’s plans to grant nearly $830 million in grants to nine different gas projects are line with efforts to advance a "true energy union" by creating more connections to regional economies. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s commissioner in charge of competition policy, said the grants were an encouraging testament of sensible public spending . "Interconnections enable energy flows between countries, improve cross-border connections and allow diversification of gas supply sources," she said in a statement. Five of the nine gas projects set to receive Polish state assistance will connect to European gas networks […]
WARSAW ConocoPhillips, the U.S. energy company, is withdrawing from shale gas exploration in Poland as it has not encountered commercial volumes of the gas, the company said on Friday. ConocoPhillips said its subsidiary Lane Energy Poland has invested around $220 million in Poland since 2009. It drilled seven wells over its three Western Baltic concessions. "Unfortunately, commercial volumes of natural gas were not encountered," Tim Wallace, ConocoPhillips country manager in Poland, was quoted as saing in a statement. ConocoPhillips was the last major oil company looking for shale gas in Poland, after Chevron withdrawal at the start of this year. (Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko; Editing by William Hardy)
LONDON — Chevron said on Friday that it would abandon efforts to find and produce natural gas from shale rock in Poland, in perhaps the biggest setback yet to fledgling efforts to start a European shale oil and gas industry that might help replace the region’s dwindling fuel resources. Shale development in the United States has been one of the reasons the American energy industry has experienced a renaissance in recent years — so much so that it has contributed to the global glut now depressing oil prices. But Europe, heavily reliant on imported fuel, has had trouble getting started with shale, for geological, environmental and political reasons. Chevron announced it was abandoning the Poland project the same day the company reported that its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2014 fell nearly 30 percent compared with a year earlier, to $3.5 billion. The company blamed lower oil prices […]
BNK Petroleum, based in California, said it was looking for partners to help exploit potential shale natural gas reserves in Poland. (UPI Photo/Heinz Ruckemann) CAMARILLO, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) — Reservoir analysis of a natural gas well in Poland was encouraging enough to start looking for potential work partners, shale player BNK Petroleum said. BNK Petroleum, which has headquarters in California, said Wednesday it was reviewing data from a reservoir model analysis for a Polish shale natural gas well dubbed Gapowo B-1H. "The company believes that the encouraging modeling results, strong natural gas prices in Europe, and the company’s large Polish acreage position will be attractive to joint venture partners with the capacity to advance this project," it said in a statement. New drilling technologies like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, dubbed fracking, are used in shale deposits to access oil and gas reserves previously out of reach. Those […]
Poland’s ambition to achieve energy independence from Russia is being undermined by drillers giving up on the nation’s shale wells after disappointing results. The highest test flows during the country’s five-year search for unconventional gas were just 30 percent of what’s needed for commercial production, said Pawel Poprawa, a geologist at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. The number of active shale permits has fallen 43 percent from a high in January 2013 and explorers probably won’t extend all those expiring this year, according to Slawomir Brodzinski , the nation’s deputy environment minister. 3Legs Resources Plc, the Isle of Man-based company that was the first foreign explorer to buy a license in the East European nation, said last month it’s leaving after poor results at Poland’s biggest fracking operation in the northeastern Baltic Basin. The “poorly understood” formation may hold more gas than Texas’s Barnett Shale, […]
By Patryk Wasilewski WARSAW–Poland resumed deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine on Friday, after supplies from Russian to Poland fell below ordered level earlier this week, the country’s gas network operator said. Poland’s state-controlled PGNiG SA said earlier this week that deliveries from Russia’s OAO Gazprom were 20-24% below increased order levels on Monday and Tuesday, and 45% below on Wednesday. Gazprom said it was delivering unchanged amounts of gas through Monday-Tuesday. PGNiG said it was compensating for the difference by increasing supplies from Germany and the Czech Republic. Before the halt of supplies to Ukraine, Poland supplied about 4 million cubic meters of gas a day to it neighbor, with most of it originating in Russia. Kiev was forced to import gas through Poland and Slovakia after Gazprom halted supplies to Ukraine amid a dispute over prices and unpaid bills. The dispute has been seen as part of […]
General view of the gas station near the border between Ukraine and Poland in the settlement of Drozdovychi, 120 km (75 miles) west of ukrainian city of Lviv. Moscow has reduced its gas exports to Poland in an apparent attempt to prevent EU countries from re-exporting Russian gas as a lifeline to Ukraine. Russia halted its direct gas shipments to Ukraine in June amid a pricing dispute that has accompanied their broader conflict over Crimea and eastern Ukraine. The latest move by state-controlled Gazprom to crack down on re-exports represents a further tightening of Moscow’s noose around Kiev before a winter that could cripple its economy if it cannot secure sufficient energy supplies. More On this topic IN Europe Poland’s state gas group PGNiG said on Wednesday that Gazprom had delivered 20 per cent less gas on Monday and 24 per cent less gas on Tuesday than it was […]
Russia’s OAO Gazprom limited natural gas flows to Poland , preventing the European Union member state from supplying Ukraine via so-called reverse flows. Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA, or PGNiG, got 20 to 24 percent less fuel than it ordered from Gazprom Export over the past two days and is compensating flows with alternative supply, the company said today in an e-mailed statement . Poland halted gas supply to Ukraine at 3 p.m. Warsaw time today, according to Ukraine’s UkrTransGaz. Ukraine is seeking to replace some of its Russian gas with fuel from Europe after Gazprom halted its supplies on June 16 in a dispute over debt and prices, echoing spats in 2006 and 2009 that left European customers short of fuel. Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller said in June the company might limit supplies to gas-metering stations where it observed reverse flows. “It would appear from […]
Active Citizens , Active Citizens , Civil Society , Climate Change , Editors’ Choice , Energy , Environment , Europe , Featured , Headlines , Natural Resources , Projects , TerraViva United Nations Anti-coal human chain crossing the Niesse river which separates Poland and Germany, August 2014. Credit: Courtesy of Greenpeace Poland GRABICE, Poland / PROSCHIM, Germany, Aug 26 2014 (IPS) – “People have gathered here to tell their politicians that the way in which we used energy and our environment in the 19th and 20th centuries is now over,” says Radek Gawlik, one of Poland’s most experienced environmental activists. “The time for burning coal has passed and the sooner we understand this, the better it is for us.” Gawlik was one of over 7,500 people who joined an 8-kilometre-long human chain at the weekend linking the German village of Kerkwitz with the Polish village of Grabice to oppose […]
British energy company 3Leg Resources said Friday efforts to bring Polish shale natural gas into production are going "very smoothly." The company said it put a well in the Lublewo research area in to a test phase to determine its potential to produce natural gas following a successful hydraulic fracturing program. Kamlesh Parmar, the company’s chief executive, said the well is a milestone for the exploration program in Poland . "The operations to bring the well into test production have gone very smoothly and we are delighted to see the well has flowed [natural gas] from the beginning," he said in a statement. The European Investment Bank in June loaned Poland $132 million for the expansion of a pipeline that could bring gas, including domestically sourced liquefied natural gas, to the border of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine. The EIB said the Polish gas project is "crucial" to […]
