“Slovakia is one of the countries most dependent on Russian gas.
Therefore, our key priority is the search for alternative supplies and energy routes.
Today I visited the village of Virava, where tests of the already built Polish-Slovak gas pipeline are being prepared.
In the very near future, its testing will begin, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
The capacity of the gas pipeline in the Slovak direction will be 5.1 billion cubic meters, he stressed.
According to Heger, this is approximately the republic's annual need for this type of fuel.
On May 13, the directorate of the Slovak gas transmission operator Eustream announced that Slovakia had increased its bid for the supply of gas from Russia in transit through Ukraine.