Compensation for the contamination of Russian oil in the Druzhba pipeline should be agreed between the buyers and sellers of this oil, Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told reporters on Monday. Russian officials and oil suppliers met European buyers in Moscow on Monday to discuss the incident, in which several million tonnes of oil were found contaminated with high levels of organic chloride. That has disrupted deliveries to Belarus, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and other countries since April. “It is up to the receiver and shipper of the cargo to agree on a reasonable sum,” Sorokin said. Poland’s biggest refiner PKN Orlen said in a statement that after the meeting in Moscow it had been told that Transneft, the operator of the Druzhba pipeline, would provide compensation for oil producers to meet their customers’ financial claims related to the contaminated oil. One participant at the meeting, […]