Natural Gas: Russian Media Downplays Poland's Latest Moves

Two from Sputnik which, spell non every bit rah-rah every bit RT should soundless live on considered every bit speaking for the Kremlin.
First up, in addition to next on this morning's "Natural Gas: Polish Oil in addition to Gas Company (PGNiG) confirms the States LNG furnish deal":

US LNG Imports 'Not a Game Changer' for Poland – Specialist

Polish society PGNiG has inked 2 long-term contracts for the annual furnish of close 2 1000000 tons of liquid natural gas from the the States for the side past times side twenty years, which is equivalent to 2.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas afterwards regasification.

Poland volition purchase the LNG under the Free on Board (FoB) formula, pregnant the seller pays for loading in addition to the buyer pays other costs to the destination.

In an interview with Sputnik, Rafal Zasun, Editor-in-Chief of the website “Wysokienapiecie.pl” (“High Voltage”), said that fifty-fifty though the cost for the the States liquefied gas has non been announced, it is clear that it volition live on higher than pipeline gas.

“What is important, however, is that the contract has been signed for 20 years. As far as I know, the contract which Poland currently has with Gazprom expires in 2022. How much Russian gas volition cost in 2022 is anyone’s guess. It makes no feel comparing the cost written down in the contract signed years agone with the electrical flow one,” Zasun said.

He added that the cost should live on compared with the ane instantly listed on European exchanges, where it has gone through the roof. Additionally, the 2 1000000 tons volition non live on that of import for the Polish marketplace position in comparison to the “reverse” gas the province is getting from Germany.

“If someday nosotros desire to stop getting gas from Russia, we’ll convey to fill the void alongside ‘reverse’ gas from the West. It volition live on the same Russian gas, but provided though dissimilar arrangements, non on a long-term basis. It’s foreign that Gazprom soundless sticks to long-term contracts,” Rafal Zasun said.

When asked whether the the States LNG would live on able to meet Poland’s growing demand, which is instantly in the ballpark of about eighteen billion cubic meters a year, compared to the 2.7 billion it is going to receive from the US, Zasun said that regardless, Poland ane agency or some other volition larn gas....MUCH MORE

Also at Sputnik:

Denmark Deciding Nord Stream 2’s Fate

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe volition double Russian natural gas supplies to Deutschland via the Baltic Sea in addition to trim transit across Ukraine.

On August 10, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline structure projection was forced to apply for an option pipeline road in Denmark, Sputnik contributor Dmitry Lekukh wrote.

The application in addition to environmental behavior on assessment written report to Denmark's Energy Agency requested permission to build through the country's 200 nautical mile exclusive economical zone northwest of Bornholm, thence bypassing Danish territorial waters (i.e. waters 12 nautical miles off the country's coast).

The society stressed, however, that it was non withdrawing from the ongoing physical care for for the preferred road as applied for in Apr 2017.
Construction Permits

For Nord Stream in addition to Nord Stream 2, permits from Russia, Deutschland in addition to Republic of Finland were crucially of import because at that topographic point is no agency either pipeline could perchance circumvent their territorial waters.

Permits from Sweden in addition to Kingdom of Denmark are important, but not critical: in the representative of Sweden, the pipes could live on set differently, although with some cost markups, in addition to in the representative with Denmark the same could live on done without any additional cost.

Realizing the legal in addition to technological impossibility of countering the projection in addition to hating to alienate the project’s primary beneficiaries, Deutschland in addition to Austria, the Swedes granted the requited permission.
The Danish government dug in their heels fifty-fifty though they officially recognized the impossibility of derailing the projection as a whole.

And instantly the Danish Energy Agency says it volition concur a world hearing on the environmental assessment of the option road for Nord Stream 2 on Bornholm Island slated for November 14.
By the way, the novel road runs away from the country’s territorial waters, but still inside its exclusive economical zone to the north-west of Bornholm.

Yetl, from the indicate of view of international maritime law, Kingdom of Denmark cannot block it, except only under the pretext of some “ecological concerns.”...

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