Highlights Full clean-up could take ‘several months’ Belarus estimates up to 5 million mt of oil affected Transneft to blend dirty oil for export at Novorossiisk Moscow — Efforts to restart flows of clean Russian oil exports to Europe are expected to start in the coming days but work to fully clear the millions of barrels of contaminated crude from the 4,000 km Druzhba pipeline system could take months to complete, it emerged Tuesday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Operators of Belarus, Ukrainian, Hungarian and Slovakian sections of troubled Druzhba network have agreed on technical measures to clean contaminated oil from part of the system and expect normal quality oil from Russia to start entering Belarus and Urkaine in the coming days, Ukrainian pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta said Tuesday. Belarus refiner Belneftekhim said it expects clean crude from Russia to reach its Mozyr […]