MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus state energy company Belneftekhim said on Sunday it had partially resumed oil transit towards Poland and that its daily Western-bound transit plan for June was 65,000 tonnes.
Belarus has so far returned 450,000 tonnes of contaminated oil to Russia, Belneftekhim said in a statement, adding it expected to complete the clean-up of a pipeline between the Mozyr refinery and the Unecha station in Russia by mid-August.
In Poland, clean oil has reached the Adamova Zastava station, the company said. Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft also said on Sunday that clean Russian oil was now being delivered to Poland via Belarus, Russian news agencies reported.
Russia's oil export flows to Europe have been disrupted since April, when high levels of organic chloride were found in crude pumped via the Druzhba pipeline.
In May, Moscow agreed to pump dirty crude oil back from Belarus to clear the pipeline.