{"id":6109,"date":"2023-06-20T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2023-06-29T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:14:41","slug":"finance-minister-zbynek-stanjura-and-the-mero-cr-senior-management-discussed-the-business-results-of-the-company-and-the-tal-plus-strategic-capital-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/finance-minister-zbynek-stanjura-and-the-mero-cr-senior-management-discussed-the-business-results-of-the-company-and-the-tal-plus-strategic-capital-project\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Finance Minister Zbyn\u011bk Stanjura and the MERO \u010cR senior management discussed the business results of the company and the TAL-PLUS strategic capital project.<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kralupy nad Vltavou, 20 June 2023 \u2013 Finance Minister Zbyn\u011bk Stanjura visited the Central Oil Tank Farm in Nelahozeves today. Together with Jaroslav Pant\u016f\u010dek, CEO of MERO \u010cR, and other members of the Company\u2019s management, he discussed the provision of crude oil supplies to the Czech Republic, the Company\u2019s business performance and the strategic investment of CZK 1.6 billion in the TAL-PLUS project. The Ministry of Finance is the sole shareholder of MERO \u010cR, a state-owned company which distributes crude oil to the Czech Republic.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI am happy to see that MERO \u010cR has maintained its business stability and that the new team of senior executives managed to increase the Company\u2019s net profit by CZK 70 million to achieve CZK 788 million last year, mainly thanks to the appropriately set conservative approach as part of increasing the value of available funds,\u201d <\/em>said Finance Minister Zbyn\u011bk Stanjura and added:<em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAs the Czech Republic enhances its energy security, MERO \u010cR has launched a strategic investment of CZK 1.6 billion in the TAL-PLUS project. This is an expansion of the capacity of the Transalpine Pipeline. Thanks to this, the Czech Republic will get 4 million tonnes of extra crude oil per year from 2025 and our country will be completely independent of oil supplies from Russia. I consider it very important that this investment will not burden the state budget in any way and will be fully covered by the revenues of MERO \u010cR<\/em>,\u201d said <strong>Zbyn\u011bk Stanjura<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister\u2019s visit to Nelahozeves today also included a tour of the Central Oil Tank Farm facilities, including the control centre and technical infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Today\u2019s meeting with Minister Stanjura covered important topics such as the business performance of MERO \u010cR and, above all, our future strategic development projects. We presented to the Minister our current business results and especially our plans for the next period, including specific planned technological and process innovations. With them, we want to continue to save costs and raise more funds for capital projects. <\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I also confirmed to the Minister that all the money for the TAL-PLUS strategic investment will be paid by MERO \u010cR and we will not have any financial demands on the state budget as we expand the Transalpine Pipeline capacity<\/em>,\u201d added <strong>Jaroslav Pant\u016f\u010dek<\/strong>, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of MERO \u010cR.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-1024x637.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-2048x1274.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mero.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/velin01-scaled.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kralupy nad Vltavou, 20 June 2023 \u2013 Finance Minister Zbyn\u011bk Stanjura visited the Central Oil Tank Farm in Nelahozeves today. Together with Jaroslav Pant\u016f\u010dek, CEO of MERO \u010cR, and other members of the Company\u2019s management, he discussed the provision of crude oil supplies to the Czech Republic, the Company\u2019s business performance and the strategic investment of CZK 1.6 billion in the TAL-PLUS project. The Ministry of Finance is the sole shareholder of MERO \u010cR, a state-owned company which distributes crude oil to the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mero.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}