Hungary Resumes Gas Deliveries To Serbia, Bosnia -Distributor
January 12 2009 - 11:32AM
Dow Jones News
BUDAPEST (AFP)--Hungary resumed gas deliveries to Serbia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina Monday after technical problems that had slowed
supplies from Austria and Germany were resolved, gas transmission
company FGSz said.
"The technical problems were solved by 3:00 pm (1400 GMT), so
the contracted amount of gas supplies has been arriving in Hungary
from Austria," said Janos Zsuga, Chief Executive of FGSz, a
subsidiary of gas company MOL Nyrt. (MOL.BU).
"As a consequence, Hungary can resume its gas transmission to
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina," he added.
Austria had confirmed the delivery of 5.9 million cubic meters
of gas to Hungary, FGSz said in a statement.
Of this amount, 4 million cubic meters were for Hungary's
domestic use.
"The surplus amount has been delivered since 3:00 pm to Serbia
(1.2 million cubic meters) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (700,000 cubic
meters)," the statement added.
Earlier Monday, FGSz said it would suspend gas deliveries to the
two countries as Hungary hadn't received sufficient gas from
Austria due to technical problems on the pipeline.
Hungary and Germany, which receive Russian gas via Belarus, said
Saturday they would jointly supply gas to Serbia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, which have been badly affected by the
suspension of deliveries of Russian gas caused by a pricing dispute
between Russia and Ukraine.
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