Gaz-System in Talks with North American Suppliers

Gaz-System, operator of Poland's under-construction liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, is negotiating with three potential suppliers in North America, the company's chief executive Jan Chadam said on Monday.

"We are working very intensively with two partners from the United States and one from Canada, to get gas from these countries," Chadam said.

"This is a prospect for 2018, 2019 at the earliest, as it's around that time that terminals in America will be ready, and we will be ready with the north-south corridor."

Scheduled to launch in 2015 at the Baltic port of Swinoujscie, the terminal will initially import gas from Qatar, reducing Poland's dependency on Russian gas. Poland plans to export the gas to neighbouring countries further south via inter-connecter pipelines.

Reporting by Anna Koper