Polish National Oil and Gas Company PGNiG SA signed in Qatar, which is the third country in the world's largest gas reserves, the contract for the delivery of liquefied gas to Poland in 2014.
As UNIAN reported the press service of PGNiG, the contract with Qatargas Operating Company Ltd, providing an annual supply of approximately 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas to the port on the Baltic Sea, signed on for twenty years.
in Polish companies estimate the value of the annual contract for about 550 million dollars, noting that the exact price of the delivered fuel would be determined under a formula based on - the market price of oil.
signed a contract in Qatar is a very important step to diversify gas supplies to Poland - said the press service.
PGNiG reported that zakontraktirovannyh volumes with the Qatari company to ensure cost-effective of the LNG terminal in Svinouyshche, construction of which should be completed in 2014.
The company also announced the intention to purchase additional quantities of gas in the short and medium term contracts.
Under the agreement, the Qatari gas will be supplied on the basis of Ex-Ship in a terminal on the Baltic Sea.
As UNIAN reported, the Government of Poland in January after a new gas conflict in Ukraine and Russia, which led to the disruption of supplies of blue fuel to the country, decided to take spetszakon to accelerate the construction of the gas port on the Baltic Sea.
It is estimated
Ministry of Finance, Port of Svinouyshche bandwidth 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year was to be built before the end of 2013.
imported from Poland and Russia via the Russian TCU over 90% of the gas was the only country of the 27 EU countries, which after the January settlement of the Ukrainian-Russian gas dispute that has not received 25% zakontraktirovannogo gas until June of this year.
In June, Gazprom agreed to Poles 1 billion cubic meters of gas to compensate for nedopostavok under contract with the Swiss trader RosUkrEnergo - which is co-owner of Russia's gas monopoly - which in 2007 supplied to Poland about 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year .
Ukraine and Russia have agreed to exclude RosUkrEnergo from the scheme of gas supplies.
Poland annually consumes about 14 billion of gas per year, about 70% of which is imported.
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