The ports of Odesa and Gdansk can be connected by the Polish Orlen oil pipeline
24.05.2023 - 10:20
Polish energy group Orlen has renewed plans to build an oil pipeline that would connect the ports of Odesa in Ukraine and the ports of Gdansk in Poland.
According to unofficial information, the management of Orlen has returned to the once suspended oil pipeline project “Odesa-Brody-Plotsk-Gdansk”. This is reported by enkorr with reference to public broadcaster TVP Info.
Caspian oil began flowing through Ukraine to Western Europe in 2002, when Ukraine began operating a pipeline from the Pivdenny oil terminal near Odesa to the city of Brody in the west of the country. The European Union then supported its expansion to Płock in central Poland and later to Gdańsk as a strategic European security project.
In 2004, Poland and Ukraine created a joint venture to implement this project, but the project was finally terminated by the Polish government at the end of 2013.
After Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, Poland began to consider reviving plans for an oil pipeline between Ukraine and Poland.
“According to unofficial information, the implementation of this project is now one of the priorities of the Orlen company headed by Daniel Obaytek. However, due to the ongoing war, all plans are strictly withheld,” TVP Info reports.
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