The press spokesperson of the Slovnaft refinery in Bratislava, which belongs to the MOL group, confirmed to MTI that crude oil transport on the Barátság pipeline was also restored in the direction of Hungary during the day. Crude oil is constantly arriving in our country.
A few hours after the minister's press conference, the department informed that "after the problem with the payment was removed" the transport to Slovakia on the southern branch of the Barátság oil pipeline was restored.
The press spokesperson of the Bratislava oil refinery Slovnaft, which belongs to the MOL group MTI that crude oil transport on the Barátság oil pipeline will be restored in the direction of Hungary on Thursday.
The fact that the delivery of Russian crude oil stopped was not the fault of the Russian side, nor was the mistake made by the Ukrainian side," emphasized Sulík, who said that "the mistake happened somewhere in Western Europe" , since the Russians paid the Ukrainian for the transit the banks did not allow the amount sent to the party, but returned it.
According to the head of the department, Slovnaft will have to pay about 10 million euros for the transit in Ukraine, and CSOB bank will transfer this amount. Sulík said: the amount also indicates that the reason for the interruption of the delivery so far was not financial, but technical in nature. He added that the fact that Slovnaft pays the transit fee for the crude oil to the Ukrainians is a temporary solution, and the crude oil refiner will settle this additional financial expenditure directly with the Russian side.
The transportation of crude oil on the southern line of the Friendship pipeline stopped last Thursday, after the Ukrainian Ukrtransznafta stopped the transit, because it did not receive the corresponding compensation from the Russian side. Transnefty's due to European sanctions .
Source: 888.hu/MTI
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2022plus: Russian crude oil will no longer arrive in the Czech Republic via the Barátság pipeline, the Czech public service news television (CT24) reported on Thursday morning, referring to the Mero company that operates the Barátság and IKL crude oil pipelines .
According to Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, the interruption of Russian crude oil deliveries does not currently limit the operation of oil refineries in the Czech Republic.
"The Orlen Unipetrol group's oil refineries in Litvínov and Kralupy nad Vltavou have enough crude oil for their operations. This is currently at the planned level, and the Czech market is continuously supplied with petroleum products," Unipetrol spokesperson Michal Proczházka told the television.
The Czech Unipetrol is owned by the Polish company PKN Orlen.
The Czech Press Office also asked the position of PKN Orlen regarding the stoppage of crude oil deliveries, but the company did not respond to the questions until Thursday morning. MTI
