Warsaw - Polish gas monopoly PGNiG struck a deal with Russia's Gazprom for gas deliveries, while a parliamentary commission pressed for details, saying Poland was threatened by a gas shortage, the Polish Press Agency PAP reported. The Polish and Russian sides came to an agreement on increasing supplies in a contract until 2037, PGNiG said in a statement Friday, giving no further details.
The two companies reached a compromise on the level of tariffs for the transfer of Russian gas to Poland, the statement said, and on the share structure of Europol Gaz, which is owned by Gazprom and PGNiG and operates the portion of the Yamal gas pipeline that runs through Poland.
The negotiations came after expiration of Warsaw's contract with the Russian-Ukrainian company RosUkrEnergo, which until the beginning of this year delivered an annual 2.3 billion cubic metres of gas to Poland.
But a parliamentary public finance commission said Friday it wanted further details on the negotiations, raising the issue of possible gas shortages.
The commission's chairman, Wojciech Jasinski, told PAP the commission will call on Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak next week to present more details on the talks.
"It's a dangerous matter," Jasinski told PAP. "Information is coming out about a big need for and a potential lack of gas, and MPs don't know anything about this.
"We want to know how the negotiations are going, where are the problems, and what are the possibilities of solving them."
PGNiG said it had finished up its latest round of negotiations with Gazprom late Thursday, PAP reported.
