Południowy Koncern Węglowy SA (PKW SA) is a coal company based in the city of Jaworzno, in the Upper Silesian coal basin, southern Poland. It started production operations in July 2005 when it took over the assets and crews of two independent mining plants which had belonged to the Południowy Koncern Energetyczny SA (PKE SA) energy group: Zakład Górniczo-Energetyczny Sobieski Jaworzno III sp. z o.o. (ZG Sobieski) in Jaworzno and Zakład Górniczo-Energetyczny Janina sp. z o.o. (ZG Janina) in Libiąż, Małopolska province.

“Gas industry is different today. The need to adjust to a changing market has forced gas companies to introduce modern management and technology on a much broader scale than before. Among others operators had to switch to new pipelining techniques and anti-corrosion safeguards, system monitoring, and remote-controlled parameter checks and forwarding. Of course we knew about these solutions but we couldn’t afford them or considered them unnecessary”, Mazowsze Gas Company President KAZIMIERZ NOWAK reveals to “Polish Market’s” Jerzy Bojanowicz.

„Why not an ecological strip mine?”, DARIUSZ ORLIKOWSKI, President of the Adamów SA Brown Coal Mine asks in the following remarks for ‘Polish Market’.

“Aurelian Oil & Gas Plc, set up in 2002, is a British listed company based in London. Since the very beginning, its mission has been to discover hydrocarbon deposits in the Carpathian overthrust zone in Central and Eastern Europe and in adjacent areas,” Anna Srokowska-Okońska, Country Manager at Aurelian Oil and Gas, tells “Polish Market’s” Jerzy Bojanowicz.

The Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa, GIG) is a world-renowned geo-engineering research institute and a world leader in studies on mining safety. GIG’s position is confirmed by the many awards and distinctions it has received as well as the international projects it works on together with research and industrial units in the U.S., Australia, China, India, Vietnam, Spain, England, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. Each year GIG participates in about 30 European projects.

Orlen Oil, subsidiary of a capital group fielded by Poland’s petroleum corporation Orlen SA, produces and distributes lubrication oils for motor industry and other industrial branches. Orlen Oil’s offer for car producers ranges over more than fifty different products for passenger and heavy-duty vehicles, buses, motor-cycles and other motor-driven machinery.

Suwałki Wind Farm, an RWE investment, has gone on-stream. Wind turbines will provide electricity to at least 40 thousand households.

The trunk pipeline system operated by PERN Przyjaźń SA is part of Europe’s strategic pipeline network for the transport of oil from the east to the west and north, and from the north to the west. The system is used for the transport of Russian oil to Poland and Germany as well as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia.