Balgarianovinite.com Nebojsa Atanackovic, Honorary President of Serbian Association of Employers, has said that part of Serbia’s fuel supplies will soon arrive from the south, via North Macedonia, while the rest – likely the larger share – will come from the north, mainly from Hungary, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported.
“We have a relatively short time to adapt to the fact that supplies will come through other channels,” Atanackovic said, speaking of Serbia’s ongoing oil crisis.
In his words, Hungary offers the best conditions because it has a large refinery and can deliver fuel by barge.
In late November, the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL announced that it would increase crude oil and fuel deliveries to Serbia after Croatia halted crude oil supplies. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at the time that MOL had doubled deliveries to Serbia in November and would supply two and a half times more crude oil and fuel than usual in December.
In April, Szijjarto spoke of plans to build an oil pipeline between Hungary and Serbia, which could begin covering all of Serbia’s crude oil needs by 2028.
The pipeline is expected to transport between four and five million tons of Russian oil per year to Serbia via Hungary, the Foreign Minister added.
At the end of November, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that the Thessaloniki–Skopje oil products pipeline, which had been out of service for more than 10 years, would resume operations by the end of the year.
Mickoski said pressure tests and other checks would be carried out and that the government had already approved the tariff for using the system.
The 213-km pipeline was built in 2002 to connect the HelleniQ Energy refinery in Thessaloniki with the OKTA refinery in Skopje, which the Greek company had acquired. The Greek portal Worldenergynews.gr recalled that the pipeline stopped operating after HelleniQ Energy deemed it unprofitable. Subsequent legal disputes between the company and North Macedonia further delayed any reopening.
HelleniQ Energy CEO Andreas Shiamishis, quoted by energypress.gr, said at a forum in Athens in November that the company had received the necessary approval from North Macedonia’s government and aimed to begin exporting petroleum products through the pipeline by the end of the year. He noted that this comes at a time when Greece is seeking to fill the vacuum left in the Balkans after the withdrawal of Russian companies.
In early January, the United States announced sanctions on Serbia’s national oil company NIS due to “secondary risk” stemming from the war in Ukraine, noting that NIS is majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft. Washington demanded the complete withdrawal of Russian capital. It was only at the end of November that Russia announced it was prepared to sell its stake. The sanctions came into force on October 9 after being postponed eight times.
The Serbian State holds 29.9% of NIS shares, while the main owner remains Gazprom Neft with 44.9%. At the end of September, the St Petersburg-based company Intelligence, connected to Gazprom, acquired the 11.3% stake of the parent company Gazprom. Serbia’s Fuel Supplies to Be Secured by Hungary, North Macedonia – Serbian Association of Employers Honorary President 2025 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2025-12-09 16:06:03 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law