Unimot, Poland’s largest independent multi-energy group, has secured 12 regasification slots per year on the FSRU 2 floating LNG terminal in a deal worth PLN 2,109 million. The 15-year contract with Gaz-System runs from 2030 to 2044 and guarantees the company access to imported gas until 2044.
The agreements were signed under Gaz-System’s Open Season FSRU-2 procedure, which offers capacity on a second floating LNG import terminal planned near Gdańsk. Services will be provided in a regulated tariff model approved by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office, based on a cost-plus methodology that gives predictable settlement conditions for the whole contract term.
For years, key gas infrastructure in Pomerania was controlled by Orlen, the oil group formerly known as PGNiG. Unimot, together with PGE and Enea, has now broken that monopoly, gaining access to the Świnoujście LNG terminal, the first FSRU in Gdańsk scheduled for completion at the turn of 2027/2028, the second FSRU planned for 2029 and the Baltic Pipe pipeline.
Monopoly opens up
– National energy security is constantly built through investments in flexible infrastructure and diversified supply directions and sources – said Karol Ilba, CEO of Unimot Energia i Gaz. – As an independent Polish multi-energy group, we want to be an active partner in building a secure Poland, alongside other key market participants. Obtaining regasification capacity strengthens our position on the natural gas market and is an important element of Unimot’s long-term strategy, which assumes development in energy transition and building a disruption-resistant energy supply system.
Long-term access to FSRU-2 regasification capacity is of strategic importance for the group’s gas and LNG business. Cooperation with Gaz-System gives Unimot multi-year access to crucial import infrastructure and increases flexibility in diversifying supply sources and directions.
Pressure on prices
– We must do everything to make the gas market function well in Poland: to provide security, build the strength of our economy in the region and, very importantly, put pressure on lowering wholesale gas prices and, consequently, retail prices – stressed Wrochna.
Opening Polish gas infrastructure to more players raises hopes for the creation of a genuinely competitive gas market. In practice, that could translate into lower fuel prices for households and businesses.
Unimot is already expanding rapidly in this area. In the first quarter of 2026, its natural gas sales rose by around 80% year on year to 1.6 TWh, a pace clearly higher than the growth of national gas consumption and the main wholesale market segments. LNG is one of the key development areas for the group within the energy transition.
Source: WNP.PL, Photo: Shutterstock
