Poland signs up for US LNG supply to new floating terminal
State-controlled Pgnig inks HOA with US firm Sempra
Plans for both floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), which can boost Europe’s LNG import capabilities in the short term, and investment in new and upgraded onshore facilities, which would help in the medium-to-long term, are not difficult to find since Russia invaded Ukraine. But the extent of individual countries’ ambitions—in terms of ensuring such infrastructure makes a guaranteed contribution to increased security of gas supply—varies. Poland is more proactive than most. This is perhaps unsurprising given its uneasy relationship with eastern neighbours Russia and its ally Belarus, and having been collateral damage in Germany’s previous policy of supporting the two Nord Stre

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