Orlen energy starts gas exploitation from another field in Greater Poland

It was pointed out that Greater Poland is a key region on the energy map of Poland. It is in this province that Orlen extracts the most gas in the country.

In 2024, gas production in the region reached a level of about 1.64 billion cubic metres, almost half of the company's last year's production in Poland of 3.3 billion cubic metres.

"In line with our strategy, we are intensifying our efforts to increase, over the next few years, the production of gas from domestic fields. That is why every discovery and every well from which we can obtain blue fuel is important to us," Wieslaw Prugar, member of Orlen's management board for Upstream and CEO of Orlen Upstream Poland, said quoted in the press release.

"The works carried out in the Greater Poland region are a part of Orlen's broad exploration and production programme for small deposits, which can be realised thanks to an optimised approach to the planned outlays for their development," he added.

The drilling of the well, which is almost 3,000 metres deep, was carried out as part of a joint project between Orlen and Orlen Upstream Polska. The extracted gas, after being treated to commercial parameters, will go directly to the national transmission system.

It was reported that the prospectivity of the area is also evidenced by another discovery, made in February 2025, of the Siedlemin natural gas field near Jarocin. Its resources were estimated at over 235 million cubic metres.

One of the priorities of the Orlen Group's 2035 strategy is to increase total natural gas production from domestic and foreign fields to 12 billion cubic metres in 2030, including up to 4 billion cubic metres from fields in Poland.

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