Hungary’s state-owned oil and gas company MOL said on Friday that it had not been informed in any way about alleged plans to stop the operation of the Druzhba (Friendship) crude oil pipeline, reports the MTI news agency.
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Responding to press reports about Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak saying the pipeline supplying Russian crude to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia would be shut down in January, MOL said “we would be the first to be informed of any changes.” “We continue to have good business relations with the Ukrainian side and supplies are uninterrupted,” the company said. Podolyak said in an interview quoted by online news website hvg.hu that Moscow would lose its best market by cutting off the pipelines and excluding Russian energy. Czech energy security commissioner Vaclav Bartuska told Reuters on Friday that a possible halt in oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline through Ukraine from Russia from next year would not be a problem for the Czech Republic. He said Ukraine had warned of a possible halt in supplies in the past as well, adding “this is not the first time, maybe they are serious this time – we will see.”
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