Russian Oil Flowing Again To Europe

Agreement in Ölstreit: After three Russian blockade flowing again through the Druzhba oil pipeline to western Europe. Belarus had previously requested the transfer fees withdrawn.
Minsk / Bratislava - The oil will return to Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary pumped, said the Director General of the pipeline operator Gomeltransneft-Druzhba, Alexei Kostuschenko in the evening. The resumption of deliveries corresponded to the agreements that Russia and Belarus reached had quoted the official news agency Itar-Tass Director of the operating company.
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oil refinery in Schwedt: Three days gedrosselte production The pressure from the EU is not without effect remained. Russian President Putin and his Belarusian counterpart, Lukashenko had in the afternoon on the transfer conditions for oil supplies westward agreed. The Belarusian government had declared that it had the controversial transit fees for Russian oil again deleted. These charges were part of the dispute between Minsk and Moscow to the pipeline had led blockade.
The Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorski will now travel to Moscow tomorrow to deal with his Russian colleague Mikhail Fradkov concrete proposals on the future control of gas and oil supplies. This was according to official Belarusian figures in the telephone conversation between Putin and Lukashenko agreed. The investment in Schwedt and the large refinery at Leuna had Spergau in their production since Monday because of the ongoing blockade of the pipeline significantly reduce. In Schwedt, according to the speaker only about 60 percent of normal volume of about 31,000 tonnes per day processed. In Spergau were about 70 percent of the usual crude oil processed, as a spokeswoman for the refinery involved in the total group said. However, the verschafften their supply systems in other ways: In Rostock ran the information that a tanker with 80,000 tonnes of crude oil that has a different pipeline to be pumped Schwedt. The plant in turn should Spergau from crude oil deliveries to the port of Gdansk supply. Moscow on Monday had oil supplies in the direction of the Western Europe through Belarus extending "Druzhba" pipeline stopped. Russia raised the accusation that Belarus supplies have already been interrupted to oil for its own purposes abzuzweigen. The blockade was preceded by a dispute between the two countries to gas and oil supplies. Russia had earlier this year in the gas price for Belarus doubled and an oil delivery tax. Minsk then raised the transit tax on Russian oil, which in turn by Moscow described as unacceptable. reh / mik / AP / AFP / dpa