Between March 13th and March 18th 2019, Grupa LOTOS and PGNiG completed two LNG commercial bunkering operations for seagoing ships. These were the first such operations carried out at the sea ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia. LOTOS and PGNiG are set to continue cooperation in LNG bunkering as this will […]
Lotos Asfalt and PGNiG Obrót Detaliczny – companies from the Lotos and PGNiG capital groups – will jointly offer a bunkering service with LNG coming from a gas terminal in Świnoujście. The cooperation agreement was signed on April 19 this year during a conference devoted to the future of LNG […]
On February 27th 2018, Krzysztof Tchorzewski, Minister of Energy as the State Treasury’s representative, and Daniel Obajtek, President of the PKN ORLEN Management Board, signed a letter of intent to begin the process of the acquisition of control of Grupa LOTOS SA by PKN ORLEN SA.
St. Helen, a Greek aframax tanker carrying 600 thousand barrels (approximately 80 thousand tonnes) of Domestic Sweet (DSW) crude oil from the US, arrived November 9, 2017, at the Gdańsk oil terminal Naftoport. This is another purchase made by Lotos, but the first ever imported from the US as part of […]
The progress of the EFRA Project (Effective Refinery) to construct a huge complex of units in the Grupa LOTOS refinery reached a halfway point taking into account the design, supply as well as construction and assembly work – Lotos Group revealed on 3 March, 2017. As the Polish oil company […]
In August last year, Gdansk handled the largest tanker in the port’s history, which brought nearly 300,000 tonnes of Iranian oil for the Lotos Refinery. Read also: Tankers with Iranian crude oil reached Gdansk Already at that time, it was likely that this would not be the only delivery of […]
On 7 January, 2017 at Remontowa Shiprepair Yard in Gdańsk, a special docking operation was conducted. The shipyard with the assistance of six tugs, docked the Petrobaltic jack-up rig, using a semi-submersible heavy lift unit REM LIFT 25000. This has been the 15th offshore platform serviced at Remontowa and the […]
The 290 tonne column for the HVDU unit has arrived from Rotterdam by sea at Grupa LOTOS’ refinery in Gdańsk. It is the largest and heaviest component of the EFRA Project units. The column, which will process 95 tonnes of hydrowax per hour, is almost 48 m long. – In […]
National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) and Polish company CIECH Trading SA, a subsidiary of Ciech SA are willing to sign an agreement aimed at transporting Iranian crude, LNG and petrochemicals as well as bunkering of ships. Based in Warsaw, CIECH Trading was established in 1987 and currently is the largest […]
A new crude oil field discovered in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea opens up new opportunities for Lotos Norge’s growth and adds to its production potential. Following the drilling of an exploration well in August 2016, the Langfjellet field was discovered in the area covered by the PL442 licence […]
A breakthrough was made towards redevelopment of the Norwegian Yme field, in which Lotos Norge holds a 20% interest. The faulty production platform has just been removed from the field, to facilitate further work on its full development. Lotos Norge was involved in this most advanced platform removal procedure ever performed […]
LOTOS and PGNiG delivered 120 CBM (120 thousand litres) of liquefied natural gas as bunker fuel for Siem Harmony, a modern Platform Supply Vessel currently under construction in the Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyard, to enable its sea trials before commissioning. The gas was transported by tank cars from the Lech Kaczyński […]
Atlantas and Calida tankers, together transporting 2m barrels (almost 300,000 tonnes) of Iranian crude oil for Grupa Lotos, reached the Nafroport in Gdańsk on Monday morning, August 15 and started to pump the material. The operation was expected to take about 30 hours. Atlantas sailed 12,000 nautical miles, which is […]
Statoil, LOTOS Norge and Total Norge, which together hold the Utgard licence (formerly Alfa Sentral), have submitted the Plan for Development and Operation of the licence to the Norwegian and British regulators. Production from the Utgard field is scheduled to start in late 2019. LOTOS’s recoverable reserves amount to 10.3 […]
