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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hungary’s government
will release 400,000 tonnes of crude oil from its emergency reserves to make up
for lost imports via a Russian pipeline, reported Reuters with reference to state secretary
Peter Kaderjak.
The oil, which will supply a refinery owned by energy
firm MOL, is equivalent of about 60 percent of Hungary’s crude reserves, he told
reporters, adding it was not clear when chloride in oil in the Druzhba pipeline
would return to levels they were before a problem of tainted crude arose last
week.
The move will supply MOL with enough crude to run its
Szazhalombatta refinery for up to two months, Kaderjak said, adding that the
government would replenish its reserves by the end of 2019.
As MRC wrote previously,
in late April 2019, Hungarian energy group MOL temporarily suspended
accepting crude oil through the Druzhba pipeline, it said adding, however, that
the move did not affect its refineries. |
