The Družba Crude Oil Pipeline

The Družba crude oil pipeline was the first crude oil pipeline on the Czech territory. In 1962, it was extended to Bratislava and in 1965 to Záluží u Mostu.

The former Czechoslovakia imported up to 18 million tons of crude oil a year from the former USSR through this pipeline until 1989. The collapse of “the Iron Curtain” in 1989 represented a possibility of oil import from western countries and liberation from unilateral dependence on Russia. In 1990 Adria crude oil pipeline was put into operation; it was constructed in 1984 within joint efforts of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.