The Natov pipeline network will include Poland

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Work on connecting Poland to the Natovian CEPS pipeline is underway. This will let not only to supply allied troops in our country with fuel in the event of the outbreak of war, but besides to diversify the routes of these supplies during peacetime. The task will be prepared by the Investment Department of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and PERN.

Illustration picture. Oil pipelines.

Central Europe Pipeline strategy (CEPS) is the largest NATO pipeline strategy in Europe. It runs from ports in the Mediterranean and North Sea to military fuel retention facilities in France, Germany and Benelux and respective large European civilian airports (Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, Luxembourg and Zurich). A network of about 5200 km in full was created in the 1960s with the aim of logistically securing allied troops stationed in Europe in the event of armed confrontation with the Warsaw Pact.

After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, Poland made efforts to combine the national fuel distribution strategy with CEPS. In 2024, the Allied Transformation Command announced a list of key investments for NATO, which included Poland's connection to the pipeline. After respective months of negotiations, the NATO Resource Office granted Poland funds (about PLN 60 million) to plan and plan this project. present in Warsaw, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Investment Facility of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (ZIOTP) and PERN, a state-owned company that manages a network of over 2500 km of pipelines and 23 warehouse bases.

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– The agreement is part of a broad effort to strengthen state energy security. In the light of the current global situation and the emerging threats, our precedence is to guarantee Poland as best as possible in terms of the continuity and reliability of fuel supply, and this is what our fuel strategy will service to integrate into the NATO pipeline network," said Wojciech Wrochna, the typical of the government for strategical energy infrastructure. "The fresh infrastructure that will be created under this task will guarantee the continuity of fuel supply in the event of possible war activities, and will increase the diversification of fuel supply routes to Poland, making us more resistant to possible disruptions on existing supply routes," he added.

– This is simply a large day for Poland, actually the beginning of the large road that we are starting today," said Cezary Tomczyk, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence. – It is about the construction of pipelines over 300 km – from the border with Germany to the PERN base close Bydgoszcz. We are talking about 1 of the biggest investments in the safety of the Polish state in the last 30 years. This is simply a capacity comparable, for example, to the acquisition of a 5th generation fighter – the Deputy Minister pictured.

The agreement signed present assumes that an investment task will be developed within 2 years. "After the approval of the North Atlantic Council and all associate States, implementation can be undertaken. We are already clear today: decisions at NATO level, at planner level, have been taken. These are investments listed as precedence investments," said Tomczyk.

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