BLBG: Oil flows to Europe to be restored by yr-end - Russia
MOSCOW/KIEV Dec 23 (Reuters) - Crude oil deliveries to Europe via Belarus will be fully in line with the schedule by year-end despite a fire that hit the Druzhba pipeline, a spokesman for Russia's oil pipeline monopoly said on Thursday.
He said that the damaged link will be repaired in two days and that the flows were cut by around 50,000 tonnes after fire caught the pipeline on Wednesday night.
"In two days the link will be restored and shipments will continue in full," Igor Dyomin told Reuters.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Gleb Gorodyankin in Moscow and Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; editing by Alfred Kueppers)
