Supplies were repeatedly interrupted last week and had been halted since Aug. 21, when Ukraine struck the Unecha pumping station.
Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova announced the restart in a Facebook post, saying: “I hope the operations will remain stable and there will be no more attacks on energy infrastructure.”
MOL, which runs refineries in Hungary and Slovakia, said oil had arrived in both countries but gave no details.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday that shipments could resume on Thursday in test mode at below-standard volumes.
Hungary and Slovakia still cover most of their oil needs from Russia and want those flows to continue despite European Union efforts to diversify.
The refineries bridged the outage with their own reserves without halting operations, but a prolonged disruption could force tapping state reserves and boosting imports via an alternative pipeline from Croatia.
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Source: Reuters