Poland has shut down a branch of the Druzhba pipeline after detecting a leak, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing Polish media and the local firefighting service that responded to the leak report. The Druzhba pipeline carries Russian crude to Central Europe. Germany buys it in Poland for two of its refineries, one of them formerly owned by Russia’s Rosneft. Later in the day, Reuters cited Polish pipeline operator PERN as saying the partial shutdown of the pipeline had not affected crude oil deliveries to clients using the Druzhba pipeline.…
