The renovation of the 128km-long stretch of pipeline will increase bidirectional cross-border capacity between Hungary and Slovakia to an annually 6 million tons from the current 3.5 million tons.

The project was undertaken by Hungarian oil and gas company MOL and Slovakia’s Transpetrol. It will allow MOL’s Slovakian unit Slovnaft to tap supplies from the Adria pipeline, which is connected to MOL’s refinery south of Budapest.