Slovak refinery contracts Saudi, Norwegian, Kazakh, Libyan oil amid Druzhba outage

- Slovak refiner Slovnaft has ordered seven tankers with oil from Saudi Arabia, Norway, Kazakhstan and Libya that will bring oil to a Croatian port amid an interruption of supplies of Russian crude through the Druzhba pipeline, Chief Executive Gabriel Szabo said on Wednesday.

The supplies will allow Slovnaft, a unit of Hungary's MOL MOLB.BU, to return to full operation from April, after processing oil released from Slovak reserves from the second half of the next week at a reduced daily production rate, he told a news conference.