Russia halted oil flows along the Druzhba pipeline to Eastern Europe and Germany last week because of contaminated crude, contributing to a rise in global oil prices to a six-month high and leaving refiners in Europe scrambling to find supplies.
Reuters: Russian oil flows to Europe drop amid contamination
Belarus' workers open the discharge valve of the "Gomel" oil-pump station, part of the "Druzhba" pipeline in Bobovichi, some 330 km south-east of Minsk, Jan. 11, 2007.
