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OMV and Slovakian Transpetrol have now finally buried the construction of an oil pipeline from Bratislava to Schwechat. According to OMV on Monday, the two companies had tried unsuccessfully to obtain all necessary permits in Slovakia for more than 20 years. “And in view of the energy revolution ahead of us, we have come to the conclusion that investments in an additional oil pipeline are no longer needed.” OMV planned to build the oil pipeline …
The oil pipeline planned around 20 years ago will not be built after all.
Austrian oil company OMV and Slovak Transpetrol have definitively stopped the long-term project of the pipeline between the cities of Schwechat and Bratislava. In the interest of long-term securing of oil supplies to Austria, OMV planned the construction of the pipeline as early as 2003, but now the project has been canceled due to the transition to new energy and due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Referring to the lower Austrian chamber of…
Twenty years ago, the project was planned. They wanted to secure the domestic oil supply.
OMV and Slovakian Transpetrol have finally buried a long-term project: In order to secure Austria's oil supply in the long term, OMV planned to build an oil pipeline from Bratislava to Schwechat back in 2003. However, the project was halted by the energy revolution and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the Lower Austrian Economic Press Service announced.
For 20 years, OMV has tried to connect a pipeline from Schwechat to the Russian network via the Czech Republic with the Slovak company Transpetrol. The project is now definitively abandoned. The main reason is the energy transition.
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