"We currently have small gas deliveries from one pipeline crossing the western border," Zakrzewska told reporters Wednesday. "We're making investments that will link Poland with the European Union system on the western border with Germany and the southern border with the Czech Republic, so that we can flexibly take gas from Norway through the EU system."
Polish daily Puls Biznesu reported earlier in January, amid the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict that disconnected Poland from gas deliveries through Ukraine, that PGNiG and German gas distributor Verbundnetz Gas (VNG) are reconsidering plans to build a gas pipeline that would link Polish and German gas pipeline systems for EUR 140 million.
Work is reportedly to accelerate in 2009 on the construction of that pipeline that is to link Poland and Germany.
The pipeline's capacity is expected at 1.5-3 billion cubic meters a year. The pipeline is expected to be able to ship gas in both directions.
If the decision on the construction schedule and other details is made in the first quarter of 2009, the pipeline could be launched in 2011, the daily said at the time.
Inter Trans Gaz, a unit of PGNiG, and VNG have recently received the pipeline's feasibility study from the German side. Seeking all permits for the pipeline's construction in Germany can take up to two years.
On the Polish side, PGNiG has already received the permit to build one of the pipeline's sections. The permission for the construction of another section is expected to be granted within six to eight months.
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