Poland has their gas storage almost full. They have an LNG terminal, and they will have a gas pipeline from Norway later this year supposedly.
But the thing is, the pipeline from Norway, is basically a tap on the pipeline from Norway to Germany. So they will be siphoning gas which would have gone to Germany basically. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. So, sure, Poland will supposedly become energy independent from Russia in terms of gas late this year. But at the cost of screwing Germany over on that front basically. And they will still have more expensive gas than they have today. Then there are the elephants in the room. Like the oil refinery the Poles have which refines Russian pipeline oil. Or the coal they import from Russia to generate electricity with.
Sure the Poles could import everything by sea, but that will require facilities and be more expensive. If the oil and LNG don't turn out to be Russian oil and LNG with a different label and forged origin papers anyway. I mean, like I said here before, would not be the first time "Norwegian LNG" turned out to be Russian one from Yamal. Norway can only produce so much gas and their production hasn't massively increased over the past decade and shouldn't increase next decade either.
Bulgaria has their gas storage near empty and decided to play Russian roulette by not paying for gas in rubles. They will supposedly get a pipeline to a hub in Greece later this year. The Greek hub supposedly has connections to an LNG terminal (already booked) and the TAP pipeline (gas already sold). The connection is supposed to happen after the storage will be empty. So, yeah, they are really in the dumps.
Then again the Bulgarian Prime Minister is an obvious US transplant, degrees from Canada and US with Canadian citizenship, so what else should be expected.
