China News Agency, Moscow, August 10 (Tian Bing Liu Jingyao) After the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company paid Ukraine oil transit fees, the southern branch of the "Friendship" oil pipeline has resumed oil delivery to Europe on the 10th.
According to Russian media reports, the Russian oil pipeline transportation company, the Ukrainian oil transportation company and the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company (MOL) and its subsidiary oil company Slovnaft in Bratislava have resumed oil transportation on the southern branch of the "Friendship" oil pipeline. Negotiations were held and an agreement was reached on paying the Ukrainian side the transit fee.
Budapest-based MOL is a Hungarian multinational oil and gas company founded in October 1991, with members including Slovnaft, the former state-owned oil and gas company of Slovakia.
According to RIA Novosti reports, at present, the southern branch of the "Friendship" oil pipeline passing through Ukraine has resumed the delivery of Russian oil after 16:00 Moscow time on the 10th, and is expected to arrive in Slovakia and Hungary on the 11th.
According to the report, MOL paid the Ukrainian side the costs related to the oil transit.
According to the TASS news agency, an official representative of the Czech state-owned pipeline operator (MERO), the owner and operator of the Czech section of the "Friendship" pipeline, said it would not resume oil supply to the Czech Republic through the pipeline.
Czech Industry Minister Sikora said on social media that Prague is working with Warsaw to obtain all the oil the Czech Republic needs.
The Czech Petroleum Processing Complex is part of the Polish State Oil Company (PKN Orlen).
Russia's oil pipeline transportation company issued a statement on the 9th saying that due to the impact of EU sanctions, the company was unable to pay the oil transit fee to the Ukrainian oil transportation company, and the previously paid transit fee had been refunded.
The Ukrainian oil transportation company stopped the supply of Russian oil to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic through the southern branch of the "Friendship" oil pipeline on August 4 because it did not receive transit fees.
The "Friendship" oil pipeline is one of the longest oil pipelines in the world built during the Soviet era. It is currently a large oil pipeline system for Russia to transport oil to central and eastern European countries.
The starting point of the "Friendship" oil pipeline is located in Samara, Russia. The main line of the pipeline forms the northern and southern branches near the city of Mozyr, Belarus. The northern branch extends through Belarus to Poland and Germany, and the southern branch extends through Belarus and Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia. and Czech.
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