Category: Russia

More than a million tonnes of contaminated oil from Russia’s Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, expected to be shipped back from Belarus, will end up at Russian refineries and export ports after Continue Reading

Polish and German refineries have reached a preliminary agreement to process contaminated oil sent from Russia last month, which still sits in pipelines from Belarus, sources familiar with the situation Continue Reading

Russia’s pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Friday it planned to start removing tainted oil from the Belarusian pipeline on June 1, Interfax news agency reported citing a Transneft spokesman. The Continue Reading

Russia should not pay for mistakes by oil pipeline monopoly Transneft from the budget, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday, piling pressure on the state-owned Continue Reading

Moscow — Russian pipeline operator Transneft said Wednesday that crude pumping has resumed at Fenyeslitke in Hungary, and estimates that clean Druzhba crude will enter the system by 6:00 pm Continue Reading

Russian oil production continues to trend lower in May as exports via the Druzhba oil pipeline have been restricted due to a contamination issue, helping Russia to finally fall in Continue Reading

Germany is not planning to tap its strategic oil reserves but is monitoring the local fuel supply situation closely, the country’s economy economic and energy ministry said Friday, faced with Continue Reading

Russia will pump dirty crude oil back from Belarus as it tries to clear a major pipeline of the contaminated oil that has caused the worst ever disruption to its Continue Reading