Russia renews oil deliveries to Czech Republic

Russia has renewed crude oil deliveries to the Czech Republic to their original level after a month-long drop in supplies. Russia unexpectedly cut deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline in early July by nearly 50 percent from 500,000 to less than 300,000 tons of crude. Moscow said the cut in supplies was caused by technical problems and denied that it was linked to the signing of a Czech-US treaty on the positioning of a US missile defense radar on Czech soil. The main Czech refiner Unipetrol started tapping state oil reserves and increased deliveries through the Ingolstadt pipeline to make up for the outage.

Author: Ruth Fraňková