Karpinski: this year the first tanker arrives Swinoujscie – Onet.pl

 
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  Wlodzimierz Karpinski
 
 
 

Karpinski rated conference summing up his work the Treasury that the protracted construction of the LNG terminal was his greatest challenge when he came to the ministry.

Terminal LNG in Swinoujscie originally supposed to be ready in June 2014., but already in 2013. it was known that this will not happen. The main reason indicated a wave of bankruptcies in the Polish construction sector in 2012. Karpinski acknowledged that “there was a time that the construction site was 300 employees,” but – as pointed out – thing of the past, because after the acquisition of his ministry workers were at the same time approx. 1000. He informed that the terminal przedrozruchowe ongoing activities, such as pressure tests of technological pipelines, connection and testing of electrical wiring and automatic and test individual equipment units.

“We built one thousand. 200 km of gas pipelines, combined our network of pipelines to the network of the European Union” – enumerated Karpinski. “Through the implementation of the terminal radically, fundamentally we raise the energy security of our country,” – he added. As he pointed out six years ago with 16 billion cubic meters. the gas consumed by the Polish economy and Polish households, 10 billion had to be imported from the East. “After putting the gas terminal will essentially reverse situation: we will be able to 10 billion cubic meters. Gas import from any direction in the world” – he said.

recalled that the LNG terminal will provide up to 5 billion cubic meters. of natural gas per year, with the possibility of extension of the capacity to 7.5 billion cubic meters. “Actually, low cost of another tank that allows expand LNG terminal capacity of 7.5 billion cubic meters., Which is half of our demand will be worth according to my analysis of around 300 million zł. And so at low cost with good management can make really become hub in the Baltic Sea and the hub in the region of Central and Eastern Europe with endarterectomy North-South corridor “- said Karpinski.

terminal to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Swinoujscie is one of the largest Polish energy investments in recent years, as recognized by the Polish government as a strategic energy security of the country. The investment will enable reception of natural gas by sea from virtually any direction in the world.

The total cost of the project to build an LNG terminal in Swinoujscie they are estimated at nearly 3 billion zł. Funding was obtained from several sources: EU subsidies (Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment – 839.4 mln zł and the European Energy Programme for Recovery – 220 million zł). Other measures include the equity of transmission pipeline operator Gaz-System and loans from the EIB and the EBRD.