Oil crisis in the Czech Republic: Druschba pipeline remains empty!

Oil crisis in the Czech Republic: Druschba pipeline remains empty!

In the Czech Republic there is currently a significant bottleneck in oil supply because no Russian petroleum is no longer arrived over the southern strand of the Druschba pipeline. According to the Czech Minister of Industrialists, Lukas Vlcek, the refineries are well prepared for this situation, although he did not give any specific reasons for the failure. For the Unipetrol refinery in Litvinov, he will propose to the government to provide oil from the state reserves as loan. "There is no risk that there is not enough oil for the needs of households and companies," says Vlcek. The Druschba pipeline, which supplies the Czech Republic with Russian oil, leads over Ukraine and Slovakia. The Russian pipeline operator Transneft announced that the operation in Russian territory continues to run normally, as The crown reported .

fear of attacks

The situation is also burdened by reports from Slovakia that indicate possible attack plans of an international group to critical infrastructures. So far, it remains unclear whether these threats are related to the absence of the oil deliveries. This raises questions about the safety of energy supply in the region, especially since the Druschba pipeline covered around 58 percent of Czech oil consumption last year. The Czech Republic also takes steps to diversify its energy supply, including investments in the Transalpine oil management, which also provides the Austrian OMV refinery in Schwechat, such as .