Polish oil giant PKN Orlen announced on Saturday that its Russian partner had stopped delivering oil to it through the Druzhba pipeline under the last contract in force, which covered around 10% of the group’s needs.
“Deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline to Poland have been stopped by the Russian side,” the Polish group said in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse.
Thus, “PKN Orlen does not receive [plus] oil from Russia”, according to this text.
The shutdown comes a day after the European Union approved a new set of sanctions aimed at hitting Russia’s economy and Iranian companies accused of supporting its just-launched invasion of Ukraine. a year.
The group had already stopped, a year ago, importing Russian oil by sea.
Orlen assured, however, that this shutdown will have no impact on the supply of Polish customers and that “all deliveries can [désormais] be provided by sea” by other suppliers.
For several years, Poland has greatly diversified its sources of gas and oil supply.
PKN Orlen imports oil by sea “from the North Sea, West Africa, the Mediterranean basin, but also the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico”.
The group signed a “strategic oil delivery contract” with Saudi Aramco last year.
A fortnight ago, a Deputy Minister of State Assets, Maciej Malecki, admitted that the contract in force with the Russian group Tatneft, which expired at the end of 2024, covered “around 10% of Orlen’s needs”. , or 200,000 tons of oil per month, transported by the Druzhba pipeline.
The statement caused a stir in Poland, a staunch supporter of the Russian oil embargo since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which boasted last year of having a “radical plan” to abandon of Russian oil imports at the end of 2022.
Mr. Malecki then assured that the contract with Tatneft was “the only one” still in force.