Oil flow to Germany resumes after Poland fixed pipeline leak

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline running to Germany said Saturday that it has fixed the damage that caused a leak earlier this week and that the flow of crude oil from Russia has been fully restored.

The state-run operator, PERN, said that both lines of the Druzhba pipeline were operating normally, transporting oil.

It said that the cause of the leak that occurred Tuesday in a field in central Poland is still being investigated.

The Druzhba pipeline, which in Russian means “Friendship,” was built in the 1960s and is one of the world’s largest pipeline systems, bringing crude oil from Siberia to central Europe. It branches to reach Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany.



Firefighters work to pump out oil in the area of a leak from a pipeline that carries crude oil from Russia to Germany near the village of Zurawice, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)


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[Lovie777]

1. That's wonderful news although can't Putin still stop the flow? .....

Putin is blackmailing countries.

[GregariousGroundhog]

2. Yes, he could. It would have limited effect though.

Europe will stop importing Russian oil by ship no later than December 5 and Russian pipeline oil was only excluded from the sanctions because Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic are land locked and dependent on the Druzhba pipeline. Germany and Poland also receive oil by Druzbha, but plan to discontinue using it by year's end.

A Reuters article from last month mentions that Russian oil shipments to Europe in August was approximately 7.6 million tonnes and are expected to to fall to 1.2 million tonnes by 2023. There are 7.46 barrels in a tonne of oil, so that's a drop from approximately 1,900,000 barrels per day to 300,000 barrels per day.