Moscow — Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Russia has pledged to resolve a rare quality glitch with its Urals crude within days after contaminated supplies of the key export grade damaged plants and triggered a major suspension of crude flows to Europe. Russia hopes to resume “clean” supplies of Urals crude via the Druzhba pipeline to Belarus by Monday, local media cited Russian deputy Prime Minister responsible for the energy, Dmitry Kozak saying Thursday. The comments came less than 24 hours after Poland suspended Urals crude flows via the northern Druzhba pipeline into Poland over escalating concerns that the contaminated Russia crude would damage refineries in the region. The move, which effectively shuts the northern section Druzhba pipeline to Germany, follows reports last weekend that Urals crude supplied to the Belarus Mozyr refinery had damaged heat exchanger tubes at the plant. Belarus’ […]