Orlen’s small-scale volumes reached nearly 244,000 tonnes of LNG in 2024, hitting a record high.
The firm said in a statement on Wednesday that it further consolidated its position in small-scale LNG supplies, delivering more than 245,000 tonnes to customers.
According to Orlen, this volume would be sufficient to supply all households in cities with populations of about 200,000 for almost five years.
The LNG supplies were sourced primarily from the Gaz-System-operated Swinoujscie LNG terminal in Poland, as well as from the small-scale LNG reloading facility at the Klaipėda terminal in Lithuania and the group’s own production assets.
Orlen said the LNG supplies marketed by the firm originate mainly from cargoes imported by sea to the Swinoujście terminal and the reloading facility in Klaipėda, from which a combined total of nearly 13,000 tankers were dispatched to customers last year.
In addition, these volumes are supplemented by Orlen’s own production at the Odolanow and Grodzisk Wielkopolski facilities.
Orlen primarily imports LNG under long-term contracts from the US and Qatar.
Poland and Lithuania
Last year, Orlen fully utilised the LNG reloading capacity of the Swinoujscie terminal, from which almost 11,000 tankers departed, delivering 192,000 tonnes of gas to customers.
Since the terminal was commissioned in 2016, nearly 51,000 tankers have been loaded there, corresponding to roughly one million tonnes of LNG, according to Orlen.
As for the small-scale LNG reloading facility at the Klaipėda terminal, it recorded a 32 percent year-on-year increase in volumes handled in 2025, resulting in the delivery of more than 8,000 additional tonnes of LNG to customers.
From the facility’s entry into service in 2020 through the end of last year, nearly 102,000 tonnes of LNG were supplied to customers.
Key recipients of LNG include industrial customers across various sectors, as well as private consumers connected to off-grid gas systems, which rely on LNG deliveries that are subsequently regasified at local stations.
LNG is also deployed in areas that, despite having access to the national gas distribution network, experience gas demand exceeding the capacity of existing pipelines, Orlen said.
