PKN Orlen agrees to NP's diktat to buy small refiners as part of RG deal

PKN Orlen is interested in consolidating refineries in the south of the country and is also considering taking part in the privatization of oil company Petrobaltic and Polish Oil and Gas (PGNiG), said PKN's director Janusz Wiśniewski, in charge of production and development. Recently, the press quoting market sources claimed that in return for Nafta Polska's (NP) agreement to let a PKN Orlen-Rotch Energy consortium to buy soon to be privatized Rafineria Gdańska (RG), PKN Orlen would embark on the restructuring of southern oil processing plants. "We are able to take part in the consolidation of the Czechowice, Jasło and Gorlice refineries," said Wiśniewski in an interview for PKN Orlen's internal newspaper Orlenexpress. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) J.K.