Deliveries via the damaged string of the Druzhba pipeline will resume on August 8

The pipeline operator Pern, which is responsible for the Polish section of the Druzhba pipeline, announced that the damaged line was likely to resume operation on August 8. This should from the statement of the Polish company.

“Specialists arrived at the site of the depressurization of the Druzhba pipeline in the Khodech area. <...> Currently, repair work is underway on the oil pipeline. The expected time for the resumption of pumping is Tuesday morning, ”the message says.

On the evening of August 5, a leak was discovered in the pipeline on one of the two lines of the western section, through which raw materials enter Germany. Then the thread was turned off. According to the company, the second branch of the pipeline operates without changes, there is no threat to local residents.

The Druzhba pipeline was built in the 1960s. for the delivery of oil from the USSR to the countries of the socialist camp in Eastern Europe. It starts in the Samara region and passes through Bryansk, and then splits into two branches: northern and southern. Germany and Poland received oil along the northern branch through Belarus, while Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic received oil along the southern branch (goes through Ukraine).

How reported According to Vedomosti, sources familiar with the statistics of the Ministry of Energy, in 2022, 38.4 million tons of oil were pumped through Druzhba. Germany and Poland have repeatedly expressed their desire to refuse the supply of Russian oil, and Warsaw called for sanctions against Druzhba. Despite this, the EU embargo, which entered into force on December 5, 2022, did not include restrictions against the pipeline.