In the video Chair-Chief Executive of the oil company Mol Nyrt. Zsolt Hernádi said, standing next to the Druzhba crude oil pipeline, that “if one percent of crude oil production is lost, historically that means a 10 per cent price increase.”
He added that the pipeline had been intended for the processing of a much larger quantity upon its planning. “Except no oil is coming right now. Since the outbreak of the war, Druzhba has stopped twenty-two times, fifteen times for reasons connected to the war,” he stated.
“So far, we had managed to solve all the problems, now this suddenly changed, and we don’t know the reason. We ourselves offered to provide technical assistance,” he said.
Mr Orbán established that “this is a new situation;” he said this is shutdown number 23, and so far the Ukrainians had been relatively fair in telling the Hungarians when shipments could resume. This is the first time “they’re trying to take us for a ride.”
He added: he suspects that rather than technical, a political decision is in the background.
“It is our firm suspicion that there is no technical reason for the shutdown at present,” Mr Hernádi said.
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