Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in Budapest on central and eastern Europe’s energy sovereignty and efforts to consolidate the north-south energy corridor with Daniel Obajtek, management board president of the Polish PKN Orlen company, and Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-CEO of the Hungarian MOL Group – the prime minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced.

MOL gas station. Photo by Vit Simanek / PAP/CTK

Under the contract signed in January 2022 MOL will purchase 417 petrol stations in Poland, and PKN Orlen 185 stations in Hungary and Slovakia. The deal will make MOL the third biggest player in  Poland’s fuel retail trade and PKN Orlen the fourth biggest player on the Hungarian market. 

(JAP)