Belarus predicts that clean oil will start flowing from Russia to Belarus’ two refineries by Saturday

Belarus predicts that clean oil will start flowing from Russia to Belarus’ two refineries by Saturday.  This would be two weeks after contaminated Russian oil was detected in Belarus, prompting Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to stop oil imports on the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline network. “Full restoration will take a couple of months of heavy work,” Belneftekhim, the state energy company, said in a statement Tuesday. Without including refinery repairs, Belarus estimates it will lose $100 million in oil exports, Reuters reports. According to Belneftekhim, levels of corrosive organochlorine compounds in the Urals oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline were 10-25 times greater than the standard limit.