PERN announced that the reasons for the leak are currently unknown.
Polish pipeline operator PERN announced on Wednesday that it had detected a leak in a line of the oil pipeline on Tuesday Druzhba which transports oil from Russia to Europe according to Reuters.
PERN announced that the reasons for the leak are currently unknown. The leak was detected in a section of the pipeline, about 70 kilometers from the Polish town of Plock.
The second pipeline line, and other elements of PERN’s infrastructure are working normally, the company clarified.
The Druzhba Pipeline (Russian: нефтепровод “Дружба”, also referred to as Friendship Pipeline and Comecon Pipeline) is the world’s largest oil pipeline, and one of the largest oil pipeline networks in the world.
The pipeline carries oil about 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) from the eastern part of European Russia to points in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany. The network also branches out into numerous pipelines to deliver its product across Eastern Europe and beyond.
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