“We are effectively securing supplies. Russia has cut off supplies to Poland, for which we are prepared. Only 10% of the crude has come from Russia and we will replace it with oil from other sources,” PKN CEO Orlen wrote on Twitter. PKN.WA, Daniel Obajtek.
PKN Orlen said it would be able to fully supply its refineries by sea and that the disruption to pipeline supplies would not affect gasoline and diesel deliveries to customers.
Starting in February, after a contract with Russia’s Rosneft expired, Orlen has been receiving oil under an agreement with fellow Russian oil and natural gas company Tatneft.
Tatneft and Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The supply disruption came after US President Joe Biden visited Warsaw and kyiv this week in a show of support for Ukraine a year after the invasion.
On Friday, the European Union agreed to a tenth package of sanctions against Russia.
After the invasion of Ukraine and before the EU embargoed Russian maritime supplies, Orlen stopped buying Russian oil and fuels by sea.
The company’s supply portfolio now includes oil from West Africa, the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico, it said. It also has a supply contract with Saudi Aramco starting in 2022.
Maritime supplies arrive in Poland via Naftoport, an oil terminal in Gdansk on the Baltic Sea. It can receive 36 million tons of oil a year, exceeding the volumes Polish refineries can process, and is partly used to supply oil to eastern German refineries that are linked to Druzhba.
“Given the capacity of Naftoport and the fact that we also have other routes to import motor fuels, customers will not feel any impact, even though Orlen has been prepared for this for months,” Mateusz Berger, secretary, told Reuters by telephone. of State in charge of strategic energy infrastructure.