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Russia stopped deliveries of oil to Poland via the “Druzhba” (“Friendship”) pipeline, as informed by the Polish biggest state oil company PKN Orlen. PKN Orlen informed the Polish Press Agency that the company was prepared for such a move and that deliveries to its refineries would continue on tankers. “The …

Russia’s Transneft has received requests for oil for 2023 from Poland and Germany, the state oil pipeline monopoly’s head told Rossiya-24 TV station, according to TASS news agency. The EU has pledged to stop buying Russian oil via maritime routes from December 5, with Western nations also imposing price caps …

Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda has acted on advice of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) to take over the shares owned by Gazprom in the EuRoPol Gaz company. EuRoPol is the owner of the Polish part of the Yamal-Europe gas pipe network. Up until now, Gazprom owned 48 …

The refinery in Schwedt, Germany, near the Polish border, refines 12 million tons of oil every year. It was built in the 1960s and received its supplies from the Druzhba pipeline, which pumped oil from Russia through Belarus and Poland onward to Germany. The plant in Schwedt was an object …

After a contract with American Westinghouse company to build the country’s first nuclear plant was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the Left opposition warned that the investment could face problems due to non-compliance with EU rules. The Warsaw government chose Westinghouse for the nuclear project, Morawiecki tweeted on Friday, …

The Baltic Pipe natural gas pipeline was officially opened Tuesday at a ceremony in Szczecin, Poland. Polish, Norwegian and Danish leaders attended the ceremony for the launch of the gas transmission system, which they hope will end Poland and Europe’s dependency on Russian gas. Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy …

Equinor ASA, the Norwegian energy major, could be an “important partner” for the power, oil and gas giant that Poland is creating from state-controlled companies, according to Daniel Obajtek, the chief executive officer of refiner PKN Orlen SA. Poland selected Orlen, central and eastern Europe’s largest refiner, to become the …

Norway, western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this weekend. “They should share these excess profits. It’s not normal, it’s unjust. This is an indirect …

Poland would be interested in cooperating with Portugal on potential LNG trans-shipping, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, adding that gas could be sent to other countries to help them cut their dependence on Russia. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has been scrambling to find alternatives …

As Poland desperately attempts to restore the flow of Russian gas to the country, its government has ordered Russian Novatek to hand over pipeline infrastructure or face legal action amounting to infrastructure expropriation. On Friday, a Polish government spokesman told the Associated Press that Russian Novatek Green Energy had been …