Czech Republic Finishes Pipeline Extension, Ending Reliance on Russian Oil.

The Czech Republic no longer needs to import Russian oil following the completion of an expansion to the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) from Italy, announced Prime Minister Petr Fiala.

"The construction of this expansion has now been completed," Fiala told reporters. "Russia can no longer blackmail us, and we have a guarantee that we can completely supply ourselves with oil from the West."

The TAL pipeline transports oil from the Italian port of Trieste to southern Germany, where it connects to the IKL pipeline supplying the Czech Republic. The expansion doubles the country's oil import capacity via TAL to eight million tons per year.

Since the 1960s, the country has relied on the russian Druzhba pipeline for oil. When the EU allowed some exemptions on the EU ban of oil imports in 2022, Fiala pledged to remove the exemption as soon as alternative oil supplies became available.

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