
BUDAPEST, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Hungarian refiner MOL MOLB.BU has asked the country's Energy Ministry to release strategic oil reserves as a result of supply through the Druzhba pipeline having stopped since January 27, it said on Monday.
It also said that to make up for the shortfall it is starting to supply its refineries with seaborne crude, with the first shipments expected to arrive at the port of Omisalj in Croatia in early March.