More than a million tonnes of contaminated oil from Russia’s Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, expected to be shipped back from Belarus, will end up at Russian refineries and export ports after being diluted to usable levels, sources have told Reuters. The pipeline was halted in April after excessive levels of organic chloride used in oil extraction were found on the million-barrel-per-day pipeline that crosses Belarus and serves customers as far west as Germany. Pipeline operator Transneft, which denies responsibility for the contamination, has agreed to pump back 1.3 million tonnes of oil from Belarus and has begun doing so. It has pledged to reduce organic chloride levels that in some places topped 300 parts per million (ppm) to a […]