PGE Gets Informal Offers Of Polish Shale Gas Deliveries In 3 Years
08 Setembro 2011 - 6:59AM
Dow Jones News
Polish power utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE.WA)
has received informal offers from holders of shale concessions in
Poland for commercial deliveries of natural gas as early as three
years' time, PGE Chief Executive Tomasz Zadroga said Thursday.
The future availability and price of the fuel, whether from a
liquefied natural gas terminal currently under construction on the
Baltic coast, from a virtual reserve flow on the Yamal-Europe
pipeline, or from shale rocks, is a factor determining on what
fuel--coal or gas--PGE will base new power plants it plans to
build.
"Certain consession holders say they can guarantee commercial
deliveries of gas from shales in three years from Poland," Zadroga
told TVN CNBC. "We're asking them for analyses, as these aren't
formal offers."
He declined to specify which companies had made these
offers.
Outside the U.S., Poland is the first place where companies are
making a serious effort to develop shale gas.
Poland has recoverable shale-gas resources of 5.3 trillion cubic
meters, equal to more than 300 years of the country's annual
natural-gas consumption, the U.S. Department of Energy says in a
report.
While testing is still being conducted on Poland's shale
rock--which lies about four kilometers underground in a belt
running from the Gdansk area of northern Poland diagonally
southeast to the country's border with Ukraine--results so far
already have whetted the appetite of energy companies such as Exxon
Mobil Corp. (XOM), Chevron Corp. (CVX), Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO)
and Talisman Energy Inc. (TLM.T TLM)--which have acquired
exploration concessions--as well as oil field services giants such
as Halliburton Co. (HAL), Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB), Baker Hughes
Inc. (BHI) and Weatherford International Ltd. (WFT), which hope to
work for them.
-By Marynia Kruk, Dow Jones Newswires; +48 22 447-2431;
marynia.kruk@dowjones.com
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