Norway Finds Planned Gas Link to Poland Interesting
Norway finds interesting Poland's plans to build a pipeline that would allow the central and eastern Europe's biggest economy receive gas from the Norwegian shelf via Denmark and the Baltic Sea, Norway's foreign minister said on Friday.
The plan to receive up to 10 billion cubic metres of gas annually from Norway is key to Poland's ambition to cut down reliance on Russia's supplies. Poland's state-run gas firm PGNiG announced its intention to revive the project at the end of 2015.
Poland, which buys most of the gas it consumes from Russia, plans to have the link ready by 2022 when its long-term contract with Gazprom on gas supplies expires.
"This is an interesting project. I have taken note. I will also inform the oil and gas minister of Norway about this project and it has to be of course commercially viable," Norway's Foreign Minister Boerge Brende told a news conference following a meeting with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Writing by Agnieszka Barteczko)
