Poland Is Working on a Long-Term Gas Contract With the US

• 07.05.2017, 14:41
•  America,  World

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Polish leaders are betting Donald Trump’s visit to Warsaw starting on Wednesday, two days before the U.S. president meets his Russian counterpart, will bolster their efforts to reduce the nation’s dependence on natural gas from its eastern neighbor, Bloomberg reports.

Less than a month after Poland’s Baltic Sea terminal received its first shipment of U.S. liquefied natural gas, a spot cargo from Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, authorities in Warsaw are mooting ambitious plans. The ideas range from a long-term gas deal with U.S. producers to infrastructure projects linking east European nations reliant on supplies from Moscow-based Gazprom PJSC.

“We’ve tested our ability to receive U.S. gas,” Krzysztof Szczerski, who heads Polish President Andrzej Duda’s office, said on July 1. “So what’s left is a simple business conversation -- when, how much and for how much.”

Poland’s ruling conservatives, who share Trump’s views on “economic patriotism” but unlike the U.S. head of state are deeply skeptical of Russia, plan to cut the nation’s dependence on Gazprom through the LNG port and a planned pipeline to Norway.

Earlier we informed that on Wednesday Trump will visit Poland.