The head of the Polish Orlen estimated the losses from the loss of Russian oil

The lack of Russian oil supplies to Poland is costing state oil company Orlen $27 million a day, Orlen chief executive Daniel Obaitek said in a statement. interview newspaper Financial Times. Obaitek, in a conversation with the publication, describes the loss of Russian oil as a penalty that has to be paid for alternative supplies.

At the same time, Orlen still uses Russian oil, which comes through the Druzhba pipeline for the company’s refinery in the Czech Republic. Sanctions do not apply to the enterprise yet, the head of the company added. A complete replacement of Russian imports requires improved supply logistics, and Orlen is working to resolve this issue with the Czech government, Obaitek said.

On February 25, Obaitek announced the suspension of oil supplies from Russia. On February 27, a Transneft representative said that the company was supposed to pump oil to Polish refineries in the last ten days of February, but the route orders with payment were not issued, so the pumping was stopped.

The Druzhba pipeline was built in the 1960s. for the delivery of oil from the USSR to the countries of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe. It starts in the Samara region and passes through Bryansk, and then on the territory of Belarus it is divided into two branches. The northern branch passes through Belarus to Poland and Germany, the southern one – through the territory of Belarus and Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.