Gas supplies to Hungary via the TurkStream resume
Hungary will receive exactly the amount of gas it was contracted to buy under the long-term gas purchase agreement signed last year.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held a meeting at MOL’s headquarters in Budapest with the relevant actors for energy security, after which he reported that natural gas supplies to Hungary via the pipeline from Russia through Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia have resumed.
Hungary will receive exactly the amount of gas it was contracted to buy under the long-term gas purchase agreement signed last year on the southern route, which remains 100 percent reliable.
“From the point of view of Hungarian security of supply, there is no need to fear any kind of threat,” he said.
Szijjártó said that negotiations were still underway to have Russia’s Gazprom divert the missing volumes from Austria to the southern route. He also pointed out that the filling of gas storage facilities is going well: While the average level in the EU stands at 15 percent of annual consumption, in Hungary, this has reached 23 percent.
In Hungary, too, oil deliveries via the “Friendship” pipeline are uninterrupted, he confirmed.
Finally, the minister said that preparations for the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant are underway; the government is trying to speed these up, and another milestone in the licensing process is expected this week.
The minister will meet the CEO of Russia’s Rosatom in Istanbul on Friday to review the situation, and the goal remains to have more operational reactors in operation at Paks by 2030.
