Poland prefers the Israeli client-state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a partner instead of its own neighbor, Russia, who dominates the global market and is begging for Polish partnership.

"The merger will bring to Orlen more than 200,000 b/d of Saudi crude that is contracted by LOTOS, and which it said "will cover up to 45% of total oil demand from the entire Orlen Group, in Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic.""

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