Hungary is releasing its strategic gasoline and diesel reserves due to OMV
In view of the breakdown in the OMV Schwecha refinery, Hungary has an uninterrupted supply of adequate quantities of liquid motor fuel from emergency oil stocks.
- 18 million liters ESZ 95 petrol and
- It releases 29 million liters of motor diesel
– is in the fresh gazette.
OMV Hungária is entitled to a priority license for the above stockwhich can only sell it in the network of the Hungarian filling station and to its wholesale partners within the territory of Hungary due to the resale limit, it is clear from the bulletin.
It is also written that the total 40% of OMV Hungária Kft. in the same composition as the released stock and at the price set by the HFSA.
In the case, the Ministry of Technology and Industry issued a statement stating that, like Austria, Hungary would make its strategic reserves available for domestic use, thus ensuring a longer-than-planned outage of the Schwechat oil refinery.
OMV said on Friday that it would introduce a new supply system to make up for the shortfall after the refinery’s distillery unit was damaged in an accident at its Schwechat refinery last week. The company said it could not yet estimate how long it would take to make repairs at the refinery.
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