Russian oil, photo: Ink Drop / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia
The Czech Republic became completely independent of Russian oil deliveries, for the first time in history, government officials from Prague on Thursday, after completing the Oleduct capacity that comes from the West, reports Reuters, quoted by Agerpres.
Thanks to the modernization works, the Transalpine Pipeline (Tal) oil, which starts in Italy and ends in Germany where it connects with the IKL pipeline that starts in Germany and ends in the Czech Republic, has doubled its capabilities up to eight million tonnes of crude oil, a sufficient amount to cover the two refineries.
The first additional oil deliveries through the TAL pipeline reached a central warehouse in the Czech Republic, Czech Prime Minister Petr said on Thursday in a press conference sent by the public television station.
The Czech government has taken measures to put an end to the partial addiction to the Drujba oil pipeline, which represented its main crude bush for 60 years.
At the end of last year, the Mero State Company, the operator of the Czech pipeline network, and the company operating the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) pipeline, completed the modernization works of the TAL pipeline. This pipeline transports oil from oil tanks that anchor in the Italian port Trieste to Germany, where it connects with the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvinov (IKL) pipe to the Czech Republic.
The Czech company of refining Orlen Unipetrol has secured almost half of its Russian oil needs and the other half through the Tal pipe. This company has accessed oil from the state reserves in order to continue to produce fuels, after the oil delivery through the Drujba pipe were stopped in March, but is preparing to make the full passage to the deliveries through the pipe, after increasing the capacity of this pipe.
In March 2024, Bulgaria ceased to import from Russia's crude oil before the measures adopted in response to the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
