Slovak Slovnaft orders seven tankers of non-russian oil due to situation with Druzhba pipeline

Slovak oil refiner Slovnaft has purchased seven batches of crude oil from four countries amid the suspension of supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, the Ukrainian section of which was damaged the day before as a result of a strike by the aggressor country russia.

According to The Moscow Times, Reuters reported this with reference to the head of Slovnaft Gabriel Szabó.

Today, on February 18, Szabó said that Slovnaft had ordered seven crude oil tankers from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Libya and Norway. The company was forced to take such a step due to the cessation of pumping russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline.

The oil will be delivered to one of the ports in Croatia and then pumped through the pipeline to Slovnaft's refinery in Bratislava.

The oil supplies will allow Slovnaft's refinery to resume full capacity in April. Until then, the company will produce petroleum products using raw materials from Slovakia's strategic reserves.

On the night of January 27 this year, the russian occupation army attacked a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that runs through the territory of Ukraine. As a result of the attack, oil pumping through the pipeline was stopped.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 18, Hungary said that Budapest stops exporting diesel fuel to Ukraine until it restores the Druzhba pipeline.

Following Hungary, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced the suspension of fuel exports to Ukraine.