WARSAW, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Poland\u2019s dominant gas firm PGNiG said on Friday that its LNG purchases from Qatar and elsewhere jumped by 60 percent in January-July from a year earlier, as the country diversifies its sources to reduce reliance on Russian gas.<\/p>\n
PGNiG has to buy certain amounts of gas annually from Russia under a long-term deal with Russia\u2019s Gazprom, which expires in 2022 and which Warsaw has said will not be renewed.<\/p>\n
In the first seven months of this year, PGNiG\u2019s imports from Gazprom rose by 6 percent, it said, but the Russian share of PGNiG\u2019s total gas imports fell by 2 percentage points from a year earlier to 75 percent.<\/p>\n
LNG, purchased from Qatar, Norway and the United States, accounted for 19 percent of PGNiG\u2019s total gas imports during the period, an increase of 6 percentage points from a year earlier.<\/p>\n
PGNiG has been buying more LNG via a terminal at the Baltic Sea in Poland also plans to build a gas link to Norway by 2022, which would give it access to gas from the North Sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cPGNiG is getting prepared to start supplying the Polish market with gas produced on the Norwegian continental shelf,\u201d PGNiG said.<\/p>\n
The company also said that gas consumption in Poland rose to 17 billion cubic metres (bcm) last year, from 15 bcm two years previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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