As we have already written about it before, prof Gazprom closed it between 5 and 12 June as part of its regular annual maintenance Transportation of natural gas through the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. Between June 21 and 28 last year, Gazprom closed the gas pipeline for regular maintenance work.
According to the ministry’s statement, the head of the department reported that the maintenance work had been successfully completed, so at the beginning of the week the Russian side restarted the Turkish stream, which mainly guarantees natural gas supplies in Hungary, and the transit has now arrived. Scheduled regular volume, so will be successful again this year government stocking efforts.
The filling of natural gas storage facilities in Hungary for the winter period is progressing well and on schedule
confirmed.
He pointed out that the stored quantity already covers more than 37 percent of the country’s annual consumption, while in Europe this value exceeds 21 percent on average.
“So we are much higher than the European freight level, we are more prepared for the winter period than the European average,” he said, adding: “No matter what kind of winter comes in Hungary, there will be no need to even consider any kind of restrictions in the field of using Natural gas “.
“The time has come for everyone to finally see and understand that the energy supply issue is not an ideological issue, not even a political one, but a matter of hard physical reality,” stressed Peter Szijjarto.
If we cut ourselves off from Russian resources, Hungary’s energy supply will become physically impossible, so it is still in our interest to maintain reasonable energy cooperation with Russia.
– He stated that this is not prohibited by European sanctions.
On Thursday, the minister will take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, meet with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Genesis Manturov and Rosatom President Alexei Likhachev.
