MOL expects first oil shipments via Druzhba to arrive in Hungary and Slovakia by Thursday

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22/04/2026 11:25

BUDAPEST, April 22 (Reuters) - Hungary's oil group MOL MOLB.BU said that Ukrtransnafta, the Ukrainian operator of the Druzhba pipeline, has informed MOL that it had started receiving crude oil from Belarus via the Druzhba pipeline system at noon on Wednesday.

"MOL expects the first crude oil shipments following the restart of the Ukrainian section of the pipeline system to arrive in Hungary and Slovakia by tomorrow at the latest," MOL said in a statement.

 (Reporting by Krisztina Than)

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