OREANDA-NEWS. Transit of "pure" Russian oil through the territory of Hungary and Slovakia should be restored in the near future, the delivery time of high-quality Russian raw materials to the Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus is May 3-4. This is stated in the message on Tuesday of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

"Today, constructive negotiations have been held with representatives of the oil transport companies of Hungary and Slovakia, during which the parties confirmed their intention to restore the transit of oil as soon as possible," the ministry said. 

As planned, on April 29, oil, fully compliant with the indicators of GOST R 51858-2002 Oil. General Technical Conditions, arrived at the Russian linear control and dispatching station Unecha, informed the Ministry of Energy. “After that, the preparation and implementation of measures related to the displacement of oil with a high content of organochlorine compounds from the Russian and Belarusian sections of the Druzhba main oil pipeline was continued. With this in mind, the flow of standard oil to Mozyr Oil Refinery OJSC is expected approximately 3-4 May while the normalization of the quality characteristics of oil in the port of Ust-Luga is expected until May 7, 2019 ", - said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the head of Transneft, Nikolai Tokarev, said that Russian oil, which meets technological standards, has already entered the territory of Belarus today, and the contaminated volumes that have previously entered the Druzhba pipeline will be removed from the republic by rail. However, Belneftekhim did not confirm the flow of pure oil, noting that they were waiting for supplies no earlier than May 2.

Gomeltransneft Druzhba OJSC reported that high-quality oil is located on the 30th km of the Unecha-Mozyr highway, this is a third of the way from Unecha to the state border with Belarus.