Poland’s Local weather Minister Anna Moskwa mentioned on Friday the Gdansk refinery owned by Lotos was processing oil for the Leuna refinery.
“The assertion that the Gdansk refinery is processing oil for TotalEnergies Leuna refinery in Germany needs to be handled as a slip of the tongue,” a Lotos spokesperson mentioned in an emailed assertion.
“The phrases spoken on the press convention of Poland’s local weather minister Anna Moskwa on Could sixth 2022 involved Naftoport, an oil and gasoline terminal owned by the PERN Group.”
Naftoport, Poland’s oil terminal in Gdansk on the Baltic Sea, is linked to a pipeline system that permits the transport of crude through Poland to Germany.
It has a capability of 36 million tons of oil per yr, above the wants of Polish refiners that course of some 27 million tons per yr.
A spokesperson for Poland’s state owned oil pipeline operator PERN, the bulk proprietor of Naftoport, instructed Reuters on Friday that the terminal had potential to extend provides to Germany.
(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki and Alan Charlish; Modifying by Mark Potter)