New Denmark to Lithuania gas pipeline via Poland?

Denmark and Lithuania have asked for permission from the Polish government to lay a gas pipeline across Polish soil for the transit of Scandinavian gas to Lithuania. This would allow Lithuania to diversify sources of gas and break the monopoly of Russian Gazprom. Danish DONG, Lithuanian Lietuvos Dujos and Polish Oil and Gas (PGNiG) will hold a meeting on October 23-24 in Lithuania to discuss the proposals, which are currently under the working name of the Amber Project. It is also possible that the new pipeline might be connected to the Bernau - Szczecin pipeline, in which PGNiG might enter as an investor. "Big gas projects in Europe are beginning to work together," said an anonymous representative of PGNiG. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 6) M.M.