{"id":99650,"date":"2026-04-22T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=99650"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:51:33","slug":"druzhba-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/druzhba-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Druzhba Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Druzhba Pipeline Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Druzhba pipeline that carries Russian oil through Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia has been repaired and can resume operations, the Ukrainian President has announced recently, ending a months-long standoff between Kyiv and Budapest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Druzhba Pipeline<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Druzhba Pipeline, also known as the <\/span><b>Friendship Pipeline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is <\/span><b>one of the biggest crude oil pipeline networks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>built in the 1960s to supply oil from the USSR to countries in Europe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, it is the <\/span><b>largest principal artery <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the <\/span><b>transportation of Russian<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (and Kazakh) <\/span><b>oil across Europe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>total length <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the pipeline system, <\/span><b>including all its branches,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is around <\/span><b>5500 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>official beginning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Druzhba network is in <\/span><b>Almetyevsk <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Russian Federation, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where <\/span><b>pipelines carrying crude oil from Siberia, the Urals, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>Caspian Sea meet.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Druzhba <\/span><b>runs to Mozyr in Belarus,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where it <\/span><b>splits into a northern <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a <\/span><b>southern branch.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>northern branch continues via Belarus and Poland to Germany.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>southern branch runs through Ukraine, splitting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Uzhgorod, into <\/span><b>Druzhba 1, continuing to Slovakia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (where it <\/span><b>splits again<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>goes to the Czech Republic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in one branch<\/span><b> and Hungary <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in another), and <\/span><b>Druzhba 2, continuing to Hungary.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>current capacity <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Druzhba is <\/span><b>1.2\u20131.4 million barrels a day<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the possibility to increase up to 2 million barrels a day.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/news\/other\/zelenskyy-announces-druzhba-oil-pipeline-repaired-and-can-resume-operation\/ar-AA21oOD7?cvid=69e7b81cd3614f51ad742bd8ae32ae7d&amp;ocid=hpmsn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Druzhba Pipeline is one of the biggest crude oil pipeline networks in the world. 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