OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2009. ‘UkrtransnaftaOJSC proceeded oil pumping via Druzhba and Brody-Odessa main pipelines under routine operation upon power supply recovery of oil pumping stations,’ informed Valentin Zemlyanskii, Head of PR Department of NAK Naftogas of the Ukraine.

It is necessary to remind based on RBC information dated October 14, 2009, due to strong wind, heavy rain and snow Brody and Karpaty oil transporting stations experienced power shortages last night, Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry reported today. A total of 1,152 towns lost power. As a result, oil pumping along the Odessa-Brody and Druzhba pipelines was suspended

The Ukraine is poised to resume oil supplies to Europe before the end of the day, Fuel and Energy Minister Yury Prodan announced to the Ukrainian government October 14, 2009. He stressed that all the necessary measures were being taken, adding that the Ukraine had ‘all required materials and financial recourses’ to eliminate the consequences of bad weather. ‘The major problem we are facing now is that many accident sites are located in the mountains and are hard to reach. I believe all works will be finished before the end of the day,’ Prodan stated. As a result of power shortages, the Ukraine temporarily suspended oil transit to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.