Druzhba Pipeline
Europe's Energy Lifeline
The Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline, operational since 1964, is one of the world's longest oil pipeline networks, stretching over 5,500 km from Almetyevsk in Tatarstan, Russia, to refineries across Central and Eastern Europe. At Mazyr in Belarus, it splits into a northern branch (through Poland to Germany) and a southern branch (through Ukraine to Slovakia and Hungary).
- Current capacity: 1.2 to 1.4 million barrels per day, with potential capacity up to 2 million barrels per day
- Supplies landlocked refineries in Hungary and Slovakia that have limited alternative crude oil supply routes
- The pipeline carries Russian and Kazakh crude oil to refineries in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
- The EU exempted pipeline oil imports via Druzhba from its sanctions on Russian oil, given the dependency of Hungary and Slovakia
● Tracked since February 21, 2026 · last seen March 06, 2026 · updates as the daily brief publishes
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