Russia probes tainted oil after countries suspend imports. Russian authorities are investigating how oil being piped to Germany, Poland and other European countries came to be contaminated. The case triggered supply problems for European refineries. In Belarius, the plan is to pipe some tainted oil volumes back to Russia to free up capacity for clean oil as well as other steps. Russia plans to pump back some 1.33 million tonnes of tainted oil from Belarus, Andronov told the Kommersant. It has no plans to pump oil back from Poland, Russia to Hold Talks on Fixing Its Tainted Oil Supplies to Europe. Russia will hold talks with Poland, Belarus and Ukraine on Friday about how to solve a problem of polluted Russian oil being pumped through a major pipeline serving Europe and which supplies refineries as far west as Germany. Russia's Plan to Cleanse Tainted Oil Pipe Proves Slow-Going. Russia is racing to return oil exports to normal after deliveries to eastern Europe were cut by a contamination crisis that shut down parts of the giant Druzhba pipeline almost a month ago. By Julian Lee (Bloomberg) — Russia’s giant Soviet-era oil pipeline is a vital piece of Europe’s energy infrastructure, carrying crude to refineries across the region. This week it’s been The tainted oil that flew through the Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia to customers in Europe was "deliberately contaminated" at a private terminal, according to Russia's oil pipeline operator Poland, which receives oil through a northern section of the giant Druzhba pipeline, stopped Russian imports, saying shipments have become contaminated by organic chlorides. The halted section passes from Poland to Germany. Ukraine similarly halted barrels flowing through the southern link of the pipeline.
Russia's Energy Ministry said on Friday that pipeline monopoly Transneft and other Russian companies had a plan to mitigate the effects of the contaminated oil, without giving details.
31 Oct 2019 Alekperov said the contract forecast oil supplies of approximately 4 million Russia initially said recovering the tainted oil would cost no more 25 Feb 2020 Belarus' export fell by $2.055 billion over Russia's restrictions on the export of oil products and contaminated oil supplies from that country, 1 Jun 2019 Figure 2: Contaminated crude in the Druzhba system and its clean-up Oil supplied via BPS-2 is delivered to the Russian Baltic seaport of Ust- 28 May 2019 “The Druzhba pipeline issue should cap Russian supply for the time Russian oil officials talk about 20 million barrels contaminated, but oil 2 Aug 2019 In a statement issued on July 24, Russian oil pipeline monopoly the first part of its claims related to tainted oil supplies it had received, saying 17 Jul 2019 Russian firm accused of selling tainted oil Nikolai Tokarev has said the contamination was the fault of the firm that supplied the oil, though he
Russia plans to restore oil supplies via its key Druzhba pipeline to Europe in two weeks, after joint talks with Belarus, Ukraine and Poland on Friday in Minsk. Poland, Germany, Ukraine and other countries suspended imports of Russian oil via the pipeline this week due to contamination.
25 May 2019 Last month, Russia halted supplies via the Druzhba oil pipeline to several European countries due to a contamination issue, which the Russians
29 Apr 2019 The discovery that Russia has been exporting contaminated crude oil with its sanctions because it believes oil markets are well-supplied,
1 Jun 2019 Figure 2: Contaminated crude in the Druzhba system and its clean-up Oil supplied via BPS-2 is delivered to the Russian Baltic seaport of Ust- 28 May 2019 “The Druzhba pipeline issue should cap Russian supply for the time Russian oil officials talk about 20 million barrels contaminated, but oil 2 Aug 2019 In a statement issued on July 24, Russian oil pipeline monopoly the first part of its claims related to tainted oil supplies it had received, saying 17 Jul 2019 Russian firm accused of selling tainted oil Nikolai Tokarev has said the contamination was the fault of the firm that supplied the oil, though he Russia's output has been hit after supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to Europe were halted due to contaminated crude. On May 1-21, production averaged 26 Apr 2019 Ukraine halts transit of tainted Russian oil are in talks with regulators and companies in charge of crude oil supply to the region, MOL added. 4 Sep 2019 Russia's oil pipelines, had failed to deliver a solution to a tainted-oil Rosneft, whose oil production and profits took a hit from oil intake
Russia to Hold Talks on Fixing Its Tainted Oil Supplies to Europe. Russia will hold talks with Poland, Belarus and Ukraine on Friday about how to solve a problem of polluted Russian oil being pumped through a major pipeline serving Europe and which supplies refineries as far west as Germany.
14 Feb 2020 Belarus on Friday threatened to siphon off oil from Russia's transit pipeline to Europe unless Moscow restarted crude supplies. Minsk also