PERN plans to invest over PLN 1 billion in key investments in 2022.

PERN plans to implement key investments worth more than PLN 1 billion in 2022, will also work in this year on the use of renewable energy sources and lowering the carbon footprint, said the company.

"PERN investment value in 2022 is record value. The largest share is for megainvestments, which account for two thirds of total expenditure. Among other things, the construction of another 15 fuel tanks (7 we are already implementing, and for 8 the tender procedure is underway) and the construction of the Boron product pipeline – Trzebinia, which will significantly improve the availability for the fuels of the Silesian Agglomeration" - we read in the release.

The company also upgrades its automation systems, rail infrastructure, petrol vapour recovery installations and both rail and auto-cisternic fronts, added.

PERN will continue to develop the sea hub in Dębogórz, which is a Polish fuel window to the world. Investment here will exceed PLN 40 million by 2024. Only next year, expenditures – mainly in increasing the capacity of the loading tanks will amount to 14 million. The fuel base in Dębogórze recently expanded by two new tanks of 32 thousand m3 each. The construction of another tank, which will be put into service in 2022, is now being implemented and announced.

As indicated, PERN also attaches great importance to the rational use of energy resources, but also water or plastic. The company also wants to produce its own electricity on a larger scale in order to reduce the electricity costs associated with pumping raw materials and fuels through pipelines. Therefore, in the perspective of 2024 it will invest PLN 130 million in photovoltaic farms, which will be located in the bases.

"In the end, we intend to produce 10% of the electricity we use for raw materials and fuels from photovoltaics, which will reduce our carbon footprint balance by 6%," said Igor Vasilewski, quoted in the Communication.

In 2022 PERN will allocate nearly PLN 40 million in investments improving environmental safety and investment in environmental protection. The company will modernise petrol vapour recovery facilities in four bases significantly reducing the emissions of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere and in four further sewage treatment plants.

PERN is also systematically developing biofuels infrastructure. The company modernises its bases to enable customers to achieve the National Index Objective, i.e. to achieve 14% of the share of renewable energy in transport in the 2030 perspective. Thanks to these investments, the capacity for biocomponents in PERN will increase by two-thirds, noted.

In 2021, PERN completed a number of investments. The company has put into service 180 thousand m3 new fuel capacity – 7 base tanks in Małaszewicz, Emilian, Dębogórz and Rejowc. PERN also started the next stage of expansion of fuel capacity. At the same time, the PERN fuel base in Dębogórz, which is the key link between the Polish fuel market and the world, recorded record transhipments. Already in November 2021, it transhipped more than 2 million tonnes of fuel delivered by sea transport.

In 2021 construction of the Boron – Trzebinia pipeline began. In this project, PERN has already completed a 32 km pipeline, and works are advanced in about 42%.

PERN also completed one of the key projects, which radically strengthened Poland's energy security in the field of oil. The customers of the company can already make full use of the possibility of the Oil Terminal in Gdańsk, as the last tank constructed as part of the second expansion stage was put into operation. Thanks to this, refineries are able to flexibly bring raw material to Poland from any corner of the world. The storage capacity of PERN only on the Polish sea increased to almost 2 million m3.

In a total of five years, PERN expanded its available capacity for fuel and oil by almost a fifth, because this was the market demand. The capacity of the PERN raw materials base today is 4.1 million m3. The crude oil is stored in 75 tanks and the length of the raw material pipelines is 1,845 km. Additionally, it also has 315 fuel tanks with a capacity of 2.1 million m3. The length of product pipelines is 616 km, completed in information.

Source: ISBnews