Qatargas agrees to boost LNG supplies to Poland

The new deal will come into effect at the start of 2018 and run until June 2034. Poland has been trying to diversify away from its reliance on Russian pipeline gas.

The LNG will be supplied from Qatar Liquefied Gas Company, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum, ConocoPhillips and Mitsui & Co, and will be delivered by Q-Flex LNG vessels to the President Lech Kaczynski LNG Terminal in Swinoujscie, Poland.

A long-term deal signed in 2009 provided for Poland to import 1.3 billion m³ of LNG from Qatar annually, and those deliveries began last June.