Moscow — Russia has resumed loading Urals crude at the Baltic port of Ust-Luga following a contamination issue that has shut down deliveries for a number of weeks. “Currently at Ust-Luga port the loading is being carried out of crude that fully complies” with technical standards, the country’s energy ministry said in a statement, adding that the crude had started flowing into tanks at the port on Thursday. The statement also reiterated that work continued to implement a “roadmap” on the normalization of deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline to Central and Eastern Europe. Contamination of Russian crude oil by highly corrosive organic chlorides was first detected in Russia’s neighbor Belarus last month. The cause is unclear. A number of trading and oil companies are thought to have taken delivery of contaminated crude at Ust-Luga before the situation […]