14 june 2010 09:37 Poland wants Ukraine to 4000% of gas
Polish National Oil and Gas Company PGNiG plans to increase gas imports from Ukraine and 5 million cubic meters (imported in 2009) to 200 million cubic meters.



Implement the plan by the Polish PGNiG intends to complete the construction of the pipeline Grubeshov - Zamosc (to be completed in III quarter 2010). The pipeline, which connects the Ukrainian gas transport system with the city Grubeshov - Poland's only owned subsidiaries В»PGNiG, rather than a specially designed 5 years ago the company management pipelines for gas imports to the country of the company Gaz System.

Earlier, PGNiG reported on the possibility of supply this pipeline to Poland 0.5 billion cubic meters of gas, representing about 4% of blue fuel in the country, writes the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza.

"The increase in imports is only possible with the consent of the Russian gas monopoly OAO Gazprom, without which Ukraine can not re-export the gas" - the newspaper notes. According to a report PGNiG Annual for 2009, from 2005 to 2010, the company imported from Ukraine's 20 million cubic meters of gas, the volume of annual deliveries increased from 1.2 to 5 million cubic meters. At the same time, gas consumption in Poland in 2009 amounted to about 13 billion cubic meters, of which 9 were imported. Also more than 8 billion cubic meters of gas purchased from Poland Gazprom, and about 1 billion - in Germany. It is worth noting that from 2005 to 2009. 2,3-2,5 bcm of gas delivered to Poland, the Swiss trader RosUkrEnergo.

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