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Polish section of Yamal pipeline open to third parties in July

https://www.chemnet.com   Apr 25,2011 Platts
The Polish section of the Yamal pipeline which brings Russian gas to Poland and Germany will be opened up for third-party use in July, Jan Chadam, the head of the country's transmission system operator, Gaz-System, said in an interview published Friday.

"We will publish information about how much additional gas will be available to transmit on our web site," Chadam told the daily Rzeczpospolita.

Chadam said Gaz-System would publish network codes at the beginning of May and final approval from the country's energy regulator, URE, should be given in June.

The European Commission demanded that the Polish section of Yamal be opened up to third party access when Poland and Russia negotiated a new gas supply deal in October 2010. Under a new operator agreement, Gaz-System took over management of the pipeline from EuRoPol Gaz, a joint venture of Gazprom and PGNiG, Poland's dominant natural gas producer and distributor.

Previously the daily has said that Germany's E.ON and France's GDF Suez could offer Russian gas to Polish consumers once reverse flow in the pipeline is available. The daily said that PGNiG was not afraid of the new competition however because the volumes of gas sold by third parties was likely to be small, around 200 million-300 million cubic meters/year. PGNiG sells around 14 billion cu m/year of gas in Poland.

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