WARSAW (Reuters) - Eni is in talks to secure slots in the oil terminal at the port of Gdansk, Poland, to receive oil being processed at the Pck Schwedt refinery in Germany, in which the energy group owns a minority stake.

The Schwedt refinery, which traditionally supplies 90 percent of the fuel used in the German capital, has been operating at 50-60 percent capacity this spring after Germany cut off oil supplies from Russia due to the war in Ukraine.

"A contract is being negotiated that could allow the supply of crude oil to the Schwedt refinery from the Gdansk terminal," an Eni spokesman said, responding to questions from Reuters.

The importance of the Gdansk terminal has grown since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and volumes rose to record levels last year. With the European Union's latest sanctions package against Moscow ending the ability to import Russian oil through pipelines in Germany and Poland, its role becomes crucial.

Eni, which holds 8.33 percent of Schwedt, relied on Russian crude supplies to the refinery before the sanctions, a group spokesman said. Shell, which owns 37.5 percent of the refinery, is already among Naftoport's customers.

Last week, Kazakh state oil company KazMunayGaz and Rosneft Deutschland signed an agreement to supply 100,000 tons of crude oil to the German refinery in Schwedt on a monthly basis until the end of 2023.

(Translated by Chiara Bontacchio, editing Andrea Mandalà)