PGNiG to renegotiate Norwegian gas supplies, Bartimpex to build pipeline?

Yesterday Michal Kwiatkowski, president of Polish Oil and Gas (PGNiG), announced that Poland intends to renegotiate with Norway the the Norwegian gas supply contract before it is signed. Due to the stagnant demand for gas, the nation has less need for gas imports, including those from Norway. PGNiG is preparing to sign a new contract to import between 1 billion to 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually via Germany, but this does not mean a total withdrawal from the Norwegian contract, where imports of 5 billion cubic meters of gas per year were mentioned. At the same time, Bartimpex owned by Polish entrepreneur Aleksander Gudzowaty, has for a long time intended to construct an alternative gas pipeline to the Norwegian one. Together with German companies it intends to build a pipeline linking Bernau and Szczecin (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4) A.Z.