Overview

• Central European Petroleum has filed its geological report with Poland’s Climate and Environment Ministry and now awaits official approval to proceed.
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern secured a commitment to participate in a transnational impact assessment after learning it had not been notified of initial exploratory drillings.
• The state Environment Ministry and citizen group Lebensraum Vorpommern are preparing legal challenges over potential ecological risks to the Baltic Sea.
• Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry signaled that any oil and gas development must comply with EU climate neutrality targets and include binational scrutiny.
• CEP projects first production in three to four years, estimating the field could supply 4–5 percent of Poland’s annual oil demand once operational.