The record-breaking figures were announced by the Polish government’s commissioner for strategic energy infrastructure on Thursday, the state news agency PAP reported.
Anna Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska wrote on the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter: “Record figures since the launch. Between the start of the year and the end of July, more than 4,000 cisterns have been loaded at the LNG Terminal. Polish people are and will be secure.”
In the first seven months of 2023, a total of 4,200 cisterns were loaded at Poland’s LNG terminal, the government said.
It’s already the biggest annual turnover since the Świnoujście facility’s launch in 2016, according to officials.
In 2020, the figure totalled 1,600 cisterns, followed by 3,300 in 2021 and 3,100 in 2022, the PAP news agency reported.
The Lech Kaczyński LNG terminal in Świnoujście is able to convert LNG back into natural gas at a rate of 6.2 billion normal cubic metres a year, according to officials.
The development of the facility was part of Poland’s drive to diversify sources of supply and become fully independent from Russian gas, the government said.
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Source: PAP, TVP Parlament, gaz-system.pl
