Gaz-System: gas transmissions reached record-high last year

Last year, as many as 19.7 billion cubic meters of gas was transmitted through the Polish pipelines, state-run gas infrastructure operator Gaz-System said. This was a 9 percent y/y growth. "This information confirms the increase in natural gas demand in Poland, and we believe that the construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline will further strengthen this trend - thanks to increased stability and security of supply. The potential of the natural gas market development in Poland is very high,” Gaz-System CEO Tomasz Stępień said. In the National Ten-Year Development Plan (KDPR) for 2018-2027, the operator estimates that the demand for gas will grow. The biggest impact on future gas demand and changes in the volume of transmission will be dictated by changes in the energy sector. The minimum increase in gas demand from the electricity sector in 2027 will amount to 1.3 billion cubic meters annually, while the maximum will be 2.7 billion cubic meters. "The result depends on which gas and gas-fired plants will be built in this perspective, which means a projected increase in domestic gas demand from 8 to over 17 percent in the ten-year scale,” Gaz-System said.