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Posted on September 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Oil flows to Germany's PCK refinery via Druzhba pipeline are set to normalize soon after repairs, following disruptions from drone strikes.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to Germany's PCK refinery are expected to return to normal by the end of this week following the repair of damages, Rosneft Germany, the refinery's largest shareholder, said on Thursday.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil pumping station in Russia's Tambov region, leading to supply disruption via the Druzhba pipeline last month.
Germany's PCK refinery - one of the country's largest - in the northeastern town of Schwedt is supplied in part by Kazakh crude transported via the pipeline, after a stop in Russian oil deliveries in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Rosneft Germany spokesperson Burkhard Woelki said the company imports 120,000 tons of oil from Kazakhstan every month, adding that talks with Kazakhstan regarding expanding and extending the oil imports beyond 2025 were on track.
German news agency DPA reported the return of flows first.
(Writing by Rachel More, Editing by Friederike Heine and Ludwig Burger)
The Druzhba pipeline is a major oil pipeline that transports crude oil from Russia to various countries in Europe, including Germany.
A refinery is an industrial facility where raw materials, such as crude oil, are processed and transformed into usable products like gasoline and diesel.
Rosneft is a Russian state-owned oil company, one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world, involved in exploration, production, and refining.
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