Transneft resumed pumping oil through Druzhba to Hungary and Slovakia

“Transneft» started resuming oil transportation along the southern branch of Druzhba in the direction of Hungary and Slovakia, transmits “RIA Novosti” with reference to the adviser to the president of the company Igor Demin.

“The pumps are working, they turned on at 16:00, reaching the operating pressure mode within 15 minutes,” said Demin. As he noted earlier, the pumping will go along the Brody-Budkovtsy section and further on the Feneshlitka, so the oil will first go to Slovenia and then to Hungary.

Earlier, Reuters reported that the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL paid for the transit of Russian oil through Ukraine via Druzhba. MOL and the Slovak plant Slovnaft have already agreed with the Ukrainian side on the resumption of supplies.

On August 4, Ukrtransnafta stopped the pumping of Russian oil through one of the branches of the pipeline to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Demin reported. The reason was the inability to pay for oil pumping services through Ukrainian territory after the introduction of the seventh package of European sanctions. sent through Gazprombank the payment was returned to the Transneft account. Demin specified that the Ukrainian company provides oil transportation services on a 100% prepayment basis.

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