Hungary will be able to receive liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2012 when a pipeline with a planned transfer facility on the Croatian Island of Krk is expected to be built, national daily Nepszabadsag reported on Friday. Main opposition party leader Viktor Orban held talks in Qatar this week with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud, who said Qatar will be ready to supply gas to Hungary from 2012, when reserves are sufficiently high. Currently Hungary has neither pipeline links with the Gulf Bay area not with transfer facilities that supply LNG from boats, Kutas said. However, a transfer facility on the Island of Krk is set to be completed in 2012 and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany recently said a pipeline connecting Hungary and Croatia would also be completed in 2012, he added. __
