Oil Flow to Czech Republic Via Russia’s Druzhba Pipeline Resumes After Sudden Shutdown

Officials have not stated what caused the temporary outage earlier this week.

An engineer checks the refinery plant at the receiving station of the oil pipeline Druzhba some 30 kms south of Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 9, 2007. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

Russian oil supplies to the Czech Republic are once again running through the Druzhba pipeline following a temporary outage earlier this week, the state Mero company that owns and operates the pipeline network in the country said on Friday.

Deliveries via the pipeline were resumed in the morning, the company confirmed in a short statement posted on its official website.