MND drills geothermal wells for Košice

On Thursday, 13 November, a planned team-building day was held for employees of MND Energy Storage and MND Gas Storage, offering a combination of good food, sporting activities and a relaxing evening programme. The event was divided into three parts – a joint lunch, a badminton tournament and a guided wine tasting.

AI, artificial intelligence. Two words that have been resonating not only in the world of technology for some time now, but are also increasingly penetrating our everyday working lives. AI is talked about, written about, discussed – but how do we actually use it at MND? And what does it mean for each of us?

Four times more crude oil than before is sent by MND from the Lusatian railway station to Kralupy nad Vltavou these weeks. The reason for this is the termination of transport via the Druzhba pipeline. All the crude oil produced must be transported by tanker - first by truck, then by rail.

With this edition comes big news - MND Report has a brand new digital version. The original reader is coming to an end and is being replaced by a modern website resembling a news portal that offers a number of benefits.

In March 2025, the abandonment of three production wells in the Prušánky area was successfully completed - specifically wells Prušánky 4b, 6 and 8. Together, these probes opened and produced the Labe horizon in the Middle Baden on the subsiding crust of the Schrattenberg fault system.

Foreign projects are a strategic pillar for MND Drilling & Services. They bring stable utilization of our rigs, long-term contracts and strengthen our position on the European market. They allow us to invest in upgrading technology, developing people and raising safety standards. And most importantly, we are proving that we can succeed in strong international competition and are among Europe's leading drilling contractors.

This summer, usually a period of holidays and rest, did not show the typical calm on the markets at all. On the contrary. The frequent change in US attitudes has continuously caused chaos and difficult-to-predict price movements.

Even better than the optimistic models expected. The data from the Tynivskaya licence in western Ukraine speak clearly, the deposit has huge potential, which MND Ukraine is gradually uncovering. Daily production is increasing day by day and the biggest limitation is the surface technology, which lacks sufficient capacity and is still being strengthened.

It has been impossible to escape the topic of ESG in recent years. We have written about it several times in our magazine and spoken to many of you. In May this year, we put theory into practice and published the first consolidated sustainability report for the MND Group under the new European rules. This is not just a task or an obligation. Above all, it is clearly compiled data on how our Group operates from a different perspective - ecological, human and process. In this article, you will briefly learn what we reported, what we found out about the Group as a result and what the sustainability report means in practice.

This year we prepared two dates of suburban camps for the children of our employees during the summer holidays. The first camp took place at the beginning of July in cooperation with Handball Hodonín, the second one at the end of the summer in cooperation with FK Hodonín.