WARSAW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz signed on Monday a long-awaited contract on Russian gas supplies to Ukraine for 2009-2019. The first gas started to flow on Tuesday.
"Gas arrived in Poland at 11:25 a.m. Moscow time (08:25 GMT)," a spokeswoman for the Polish energy company PGNiG reported on Wednesday.
Poland annually consumes some 14 billion cu m of natural gas, with 6.2 bcm imported from Russia. The country produces another 4.2 bcm itself and transits 30 bcm of gas to Germany.
Joanna Zakrzewska added that pipeline pressure was still insufficient, and that Poland expected to receive the full volume of Russian gas soon.
Meanwhile, Russian gas supplies have resumed in full to the Czech Republic, a spokesman for Czech RWE Transgas said on Wednesday.
Gas started arriving in the Czech Republic on Tuesday. The resumption of supplies makes possible the restoration of gas transit on to Germany.