Commodities

MOL Seeks Hungarian Oil Reserves to Cover Pipeline Blockage

Gasoline railway containers at along the Druzhba pipeline in Hungary.Photographer: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

Mol Group Nyrt, Hungary’s largest energy company, asked the government to release strategic oil reserves to keep its refineries operating while a key pipeline route through Ukraine remains blocked.

The company said no oil has been delivered via the pipeline since Jan. 27 and that it started supplying its refineries with seaborne crude.