Poland seeks deal to boost Russian gas supply-PGNiG

MOSCOW, July 1 (Reuters) - Poland hopes to sign an agreement with Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM) by the end of August to increase gas supplies by 2-3 billion cubic metres (bcm) from 2010, a PGNiG official said on Wednesday.

"We hope to sign an agreement with Gazprom on increasing gas shipments by 2 to 3 bcm from 2010 by the end of August," Miroslaw Dobrut, deputy chairman of Poland's gas monopoly PGNiG PGNI.WA, told reporters through a translator.

Dobrut said that under the current contract for 2010, Poland will receive 8 bcm of gas from Gazprom, Russia's gas export monopoly. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; writing by Maria Kiselyova)