Officials acknowledge that a blockade of the key maritime route through the Strait of Hormuz could affect deliveries from Qatar, one of Poland’s major LNG suppliers.
However, the Energy Ministry insists contingency plans are already in place.
“The situation is being continuously monitored,” ministry spokesperson Grzegorz Łaguna told Polish Radio on Sunday.
He added that any shortfall in Qatari deliveries could be covered by purchases on the spot market.
“That means Poland’s LNG supply security is not at risk,” Łaguna said.
Qatar accounted for roughly one-fifth of Poland’s LNG imports in 2025, making it an important but not irreplaceable source within the country’s increasingly diversified gas supply mix, according to the ministry.
At least 150 tankers including crude and liquefied natural gas vessels dropped anchor in Middle East Gulf as U.S. and Israeli war on Iran escalates, Reuters has reported.
The tankers were clustered in open waters off the coasts of major Gulf oil producers including Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well as LNG giant Qatar.
The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman connecting the Gulf to the Arabian Sea and on a typical day tankers carrying the equivalent of 20% of global oil consumption pass through it with cargoes from producers such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar.
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Source: IAR, Reuters