Reuters: Poland's PGNiG now weeks away on shale gas well results

Polish gas monopoly PGNiG has now completed its first, but delayed, horizontal fracturing well probing a shale gas prospect on the Baltic Sea coast, and will present the results in a few weeks, it said on Friday.

U.S. drilling contractor Halliburton is conducting the drilling at PGNiG's Lubocino site in the Wejherowo concession area.

Poland is counting on untapped shale gas reserves to help it become less dependent on Russia, which supplies more than half of the near 15 billion cubic metres of natural gas which the country burns annually.  MORE