The transit of Russian oil to the Czech Republic was stopped
The Czech Republic is not receiving Russian oil via the Druzhba pipeline due to supply disruptions related to contaminated crude, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
It is reported by Reuters.
The head of the Czech Administration of State Material Reserves (AGMZ), Pavel Schvagr, told the Czech News Agency that there are 250-300 thousand tons of contaminated oil in the pipeline.
According to him, oil reserves at Unipetrol's Litvinovsky refinery will last for seven days.
“If supplies are not resumed within seven days, then only two options will remain: either the plant will close, or material reserves will have to be used,” said the head of AGMZ.
Poland informed the Belarusian side about stopping the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline due to low quality. At the same time, Belarus maintained oil supplies along the southern branch in the direction of Ukraine in the amount of 40 thousand tons per day.
Earlier, Belarus suspended the export of Russian gasoline and diesel to Ukraine on April 23 due to low-quality oil from the Russian Federation. The republic stated that, in accordance with laboratory studies at LPDS Mozyr (Republic of Belarus), the proportion of organic chlorides in oil supplied from Russia is several times higher than the permissible norm.
Following Belarus, Poland and Germany, Slovakia stopped the transit of Russian oil.
Russian oil transit to the Czech Republic has been halted.