Hungary Agrees to 15-year Gas Deal with Gazprom

2021.6 的新闻

匈牙利和塞尔维亚有个管道2021年10月要上线。之前匈牙利的气从乌克兰过去，现在俄罗斯的气从黑海-保加利亚=塞尔维亚进到匈牙利（TurkStream）。

https://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/southstream/

BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has signed a 15-year gas supply agreement with Russian energy group Gazprom to take effect as soon as its existing deal expires in September, he said on Thursday.

Landlocked Hungary has diversified natural gas imports in recent years, opening cross-border interconnectors with most of its neighbors and securing gas deals, including one with Shell via an LNG port in Croatia.

Although the Shell deal was its first with a Western supplier, Hungary has relied on Russia for most of its natural gas imports via a pipeline through Ukraine. That will change with the inauguration of a new southern pipeline across the Balkans.

"From now on we have a new gas purchase route at our disposal ... Hungary will not be without natural gas," Szijjarto said in a video on his Facebook page, adding that a connection at the country's Serbian border will be operational by October.

Szijjarto did not specify the quantity Hungary would import under the new deal or the price, adding only that pricing would be "flexible" and companies in both countries will negotiate the details.

The foreign minister, who is in Saint Petersburg attending an energy summit, added that he had agreed in separate talks with Russia's state nuclear construction company Rosatom that work on Hungary's new nuclear plant at the central Hungarian Paks site will be accelerated from the autumn.

The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority has until September to approve a license application by Paks 2 Zrt, the state-owned company developing the plant, and Szijjarto said he expects Rosatom to be able to begin construction next year.

Hungary has often been criticized by Western partners for lining up its energy supply too closely with Russia. The Hungarian government has rejected such charges, saying it has pursued all options to diversify the country's energy mix.

Szijjarto said the government was already in talks with neighboring countries to sell any excess electricity once the Paks 2 nuclear plant comes online in about a decade.

这是2020年6月的另一个新闻

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/hungary-to-join-turkstream-gas-pipeline-through-serbia/1891774

BELGRADE, Serbia

A Hungarian firm announced Saturday it will join the TurkStream gas pipeline, running from Russia to Turkey.

MOL said it will join the gas pipeline through Serbia.

The regulator approved a 10-year development plan that includes the construction of a new Serbian-Hungarian gas inter-connector, with a capacity of 6 billion cubic meters annually.

TurkStream consists of two 930-kilometer-long offshore lines stretching from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea, and two separate onshore lines at lengths of 142 km and 70 km.

The project has a total capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters (bcm). The first line with a capacity of 15.75 bcm is designated for supplies to Turkey's domestic customers, and the second line, with another 15.75 bcm capacity carries Russian gas further to Europe through Bulgaria.

Commercial supplies via the gas pipeline commenced this year on Jan. 1.