Orlen is in talks with partners from Saudi Aramco about potential petrochemical investments in Gdansk. President Daniel Obaitek said the details would be announced soon.
- We are in contact with the Saudi side, I recently spoke about this with the Minister of Economy of Saudi Arabia. We carry out analyses. We will try to pre-announce destinations this year, said Orlen President Daniel Obaitek.
Orlen awaits feasibility study
This is a large-scale steam cracker, that is, a device that will be used to process heavy fractions of crude oil into gasoline or oil. The machines will be integrated with the refinery in Gdansk.
Obaitek also announced that Orlen is considering building a combined cycle plant with a capacity of about 600 MW in Gdansk.
“We are waiting for a feasibility study for the development of petrochemicals, this gas-fired power plant should not only produce electricity, but also produce steam, which is very important from the point of view of our partner and us when it comes to ideas for the development of petrochemicals in Gdansk,” he said.
Orlen increases gas production. VP says company will sell ‘any amount of gas’
PKN Orlen intends to increase domestic gas production to more than 4 billion cubic meters, and in total, including production in Norway, to 12 billion cubic meters. This was announced on Wednesday by Robert Perkowski, board member of PKN Orlen, responsible for mining. He assured that the company is able to sell any amount of gas.
- We intend to reconstruct the mines and break through at least 4 billion cubic meters. production in our country, which will definitely not be easy, and together with Norway and other areas - 12 billion cubic meters. per year, said Robert Perkowski, board member of PKN Orlen in charge of mining.
At present, the PKN Orlen group extracts 3.6 billion cubic meters of methane from domestic fields in terms of high methane. gas per year. Production has decreased slightly. Perkowski added that Orlen has acquired more than 3 billion cubic meters offshore Norway. – More than 7 billion cubic meters. last year’s gas production - this has never happened before. We have doubled production from 2021 and in 2021 we have doubled production from 2020,” he added.
He also assured that “any amount of gas that we produce, we are able to sell.”
Source: Wprost
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