Refinery starts receiving clean crude via Druzhba

The refinery operated by MOL’s unit Slovnaft in the Slovak capital Bratislava started receiving clean oil through the Druzhba pipeline at noon on Thursday, it said.

“Crude oil in quality which is required by its technical standards started flowing to the Bratislava refinery at noon,” a Slovnaft spokesman said in an email.

Flows through the Druzhba pipeline were suspended last month due to contaminated crude in the system. (Reporting by Tatiana Jancarikova Writing by Jan Lopatka)