The cause of the incident not yet known, but the Polish government said the damage caused was probably accidental.
Polish pipeline operator PERN said Wednesday that a leak detected on one of its Druzhba pipelines bringing oil from Russia to Europe was likely caused by an accident.
The Druzhba pipeline leak comes just over two weeks after a series of blasts on two subsea gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany triggered what might be the single largest release of methane in history. The leak was detected on Tuesday evening on one of the two lines of the Western section of the pipeline, PERN. The incident occurred roughly 70 kilometers from the central Polish city of Plock.
The cause of the incident is not yet known, but the Polish government said the damage caused was probably accidental.via telephone that there were no grounds to believe the leak was caused by sabotage. "Here we can talk about accidental damage," Berger said.
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