Oil industry in Poland

Production of significant quantities of natural gas or petroleum from shale or tight (low permeability) reservoirs is in large part dependent on the social acceptance and technical and commercial viability of hydraulic fracturing.

[2] But, as of 2013, the results of exploration efforts, as well as government regulation,[3] have been disappointing, and estimates of the size of the total resource have been substantially reduced.

[2] However, an estimate published in March 2013 of recoverable shale gas reserves by the Polish Geological Institute was 24.8 trillion cubic feet.

ConocoPhillips, which purchased the most prospective geological area from Lane Energy Poland, was able to produce gas and oil in sustainable volumes.

ExxonMobil,[5] which positioned itself in the Lublin Basin, a highly faulted area, could never get a sustainable test, despite spending huge sums on geological research.

The refinery purified oil extracted from rich fields of southern part of the Second Polish Republic (Gorlice, Borysław, Jasło, and Drohobych).