BUDAPEST, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister

Viktor Orban said on Friday he hopes to convince President

Donald Trump that Hungary should be exempted from U.S. sanctions

on Russian oil because of its high dependence on pipeline

networks for its energy supplies.

Orban has said he will discuss U.S. sanctions on Russian oil

companies Rosneft and Lukoil with Trump at a

meeting scheduled for November 7 and aims to conclude a broad

economic agreement with the United States.

"Hungary is a landlocked country... We are dependent on

those transport routes through which energy can reach Hungary.

These are mostly pipelines," Orban said.

"We have to make the Americans understand this peculiar

situation ... if we want them to allow exemptions from the

American sanctions against Russia," he said.

Orban said that despite having access to the sea, Germany

had sought an exemption for one of its refineries.

Germany's economy minister said on Tuesday he had received

assurances from Washington that Rosneft's German business would

be exempt from the sanctions because the assets are no longer

under Russian control. Rosneft's German arm owns a controlling

stake in the Schwedt oil refinery.

The new U.S. sanctions, which pose a risk to Hungary's

reliance on crude imports from Russia, were announced days after

a fire at the main Danube refinery of Hungarian oil group MOL

that forced it to operate at reduced capacity.

On Thursday, Hungary's government published draft

legislation to amend a law on stockpiling of imported crude and

crude products to enable it to designate so-called standby

filling stations to provide fuel to critical users in a supply

emergency.

Orban's talks with Trump next week will be his first

bilateral meeting with the U.S. president since his long-time

ally returned to the White House.