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 at least another month without piped Russian crude imports. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Two German refineries — PCK’s Schwedt and Total’s Leuna plants — lie toward the end of the northern branch of the 1 million b/d Druzhba crude pipeline from Russia, which has been largely shut since April 22 due to a major contamination incident. Although flows via Belarus have now resumed, Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Thursday that supplies of clean Russian oil on the route could restart June 9 at the earliest. Russian crude flows from eastern Poland are then expected to take another two to three weeks to reach Germany. “The security of supply […]