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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 16/05/2019
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Hungary’s energy supply: ExxonMobil to step into the place of Russian gas deals?

Foreign Affairs Ministry of Hungary Hungary investment Russia United States

Hungary will seal another long-term gas supply deal with Russia later this year, if ExxonMobil fails to take a decision on investing in an offshore project in the Black Sea, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has told Reuters.

“ExxonMobil can be the game changer in the energy supply of Europe. But they should finally make their final investment decision,” Szijjártó told Reuters in an interview in Houston where he was opening a diplomatic trade mission.

“If they don’t make that decision until September, I will have to make another long-term agreement with the Russians,” he added.

Hungary’s long-term gas supply contract with Russia runs until 2021.

ExxonMobil spokesperson Julie King told Reuters that a decision on investing in the Neptun Deep project in Romania would require “competitive and stable fiscal terms, a liberalised Romanian gas market that enables free trade, and sufficient interconnectivity with neighboring free and liquid markets, in each case, for the duration of our concession agreement”.

Hungary’s government has made diversifying the country’s gas supply a priority, but Szijjártó said achieving that goal depends on decisions such as the investment in Romania by ExxonMobil and the local unit of Austria’s OMV, as well as a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Croatian coast that would take deliveries from the United States.

“The question of whether we will be able to diversify gas resources depends on four allies of ours: Croatia, Romania, the United States and Austria,” Szijjártó told Reuters.

“It’s a strange situation where we are encouraged by our friends and allies to diversify, but basically it’s up to them,” he added.

Source: MTI

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